The Stonen
Drum.
Long ago an tribe lived in Sambadhjo. The
head of that tribe had a beautiful daughter, named Taloela. When
here father looked at her, he thought: "Who of that young men is
good enough to marry my daughter?" And he answered himself:
"Nobody!"
Every day young men went to the head. The brought
gifts and asked him if they could marry Taloela. But Taloela's
father didn't want a man for Taloela. Therefor he invent a very hard
order. He said: "The young man who can make a stonen drum, will
marry Taloela".
No-one of the young men dared to say that
making a stonen drum was impossible. They all tried to make a drum
out of hard, grey boulders. Gilam loved Taloela more than anyone
did. Every day people of the village heard him say: "I'm going to
the Big Grey Mountains to make my drum". And then he walked away, to
the mountains outside the village.
At the end of the week he
went to the father of Taloela. "I made a stonen drum", he said. "And
I want to show him to you. But the drum is very heavy. I want to
bring it to you, if you give me a cushion of smoke. Then I can carry
the drum on my head to you." Taloela's father looked to Gilam and
then to the fire that burnt in front of his house. He called his
sons and said: "Collect smoke!" His sons ran to catch the clouds of
smoke with a blanket. But sure, they couldn't catch the smoke. After
that, Taloela's father tried it himself. But he couldn't catch the
smoke, too. "It's impossible!" he shouted. "Why are you asking me to
do something impossible. Do you want to ridicule me?"
Gilam
bow to the head and said: "Head, why did you ask me to make a stonen
drum? That's impossible, too! This way your daughter will never
marry!"
First Taloela's father got very angry, but then he
understood that Gilam was a very clever and brave man. He was good
enough to marry Taloela. "Do you want to marry Gilam?" he asked
Taloela.Taloela knot, because she loved Gilam as much as Gilam loved
her...
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