English folk story: Crabs playing with the sea

a long time ago in the beginning of this world, the magician prepared everything for men and animals, and he prepared the earth and then the sea.

so the animals went up to the ground to play, and the magician taught the elephant that you were like an elephant, and he taught the turtle that you were like a turtle, so he taught the birds and the shrimps how to play one by one.

there's this guy whose little girl is riding on his shoulder, and the magician says that adam's son is too smart for you.

the man said yes, i don't play this game, but you have to make all the animals obey me, and when they talk, the crab sneaks into the sea and says to himself that i play in the deep sea and never obey adam's son.

except for that little girl, who didn't notice the crab was gone, and the magicians began to travel the world after doing their job.

he came to the north and saw elephants strutting on dirt with their legs, and the magicians breathed into it, which turned into the himalayas.

the wizard came to the east and saw the cow swallowing the whole forest into his mouth and chewing, and he breathed into the fallen forest and the surrounding water, which became the great marshes of florida.

the magicians continued to meet adam's son, who complained -- during the day, the sea broke out.

the shao river came back at night, wetted my house and knocked over my boat.

so i boarded the boat with adam's son and the little girl.

the sea is about to leave with the water, and the small boats are moving through the mouth of the river, as an invisible rope is pulling, and the magician shouts out all the animals, who among you is playing with the sea, and all the birds and the fish and shrimp are answering the magicians, and our children are playing at your command, and we are not playing with the sea.

and when the moon rises, the magician asks the hunchback man on the moon, are you playing with the sea? the hunchback man says i'm fishing with a wire, but i don't play with the sea, and he's going to be swirling.

and then the little girl raised her hand and said, i know, when you spoke to my father the other day, i saw a guy crawling across his back with a hard armor and crawling into the sea.

the wizard knew it must be crabs.

so the boat followed the water to a big hole in the centre of the sea, where a giant tree magician reached out and touched the crab's back at the root of the tree, and the magician said it was wrong and dangerous to play with the sea.

the crab laughs at how important i am, and the magicians say it and take away the crab's shell.

no, you're so important i decided to call the crocodile to bite you.

crabs cry so much.

oh, lord wizard, please give me back my shell and let me go back to the hole.

the wizard finally decided to let crabs play in all the caves, rocks, weeds in the sea.

and then the magician casts another magic spell on the crab, and the crabs became tiny.

i'm sorrythe little girl felt sorry and threw her gold pliers to the crabs, you could dig a house for yourself with them, you could eat coconuts on the shore, the crabs danced with their hands happy with the pliers, and the magician smiled and blessed the crabs and let him climb over the board and jump into the water.

the camelbacks on the moon then threw the line into the sea and pulled the boat back to the ripper.

the magician thought it was great, so he said that from now on you would raise the sea twice a day, and that after that, the fisher wouldn't have to row any more, and the crab would have stayed in a hole by the sea with his big pair of pliers, crawling around happily。