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Gadis is a diligent girl, she always doing her job
well. One of her job is getting water
from a well. In beach area, it is no easy to get
pure water. The location of the well is very
far from her home. When she was going to get water
Gadis always come by to sit
under a big tree with dense leaf. In this time she
can rest for a while and hindered from
the hard sun light.
Sometimes, Gadis cried under that tree if she felt
alone in this world. She doesn't know
to whom she can tell her sadness. Between her cried
she always pray to the God asking
for His protection and guardian. Strangely, each
time she cried the tree always spread
out her branch. The leafs wave slowly and make a
beautiful sound as seem the tree was
singing. The sound made Gadis happy and amazed.
The rhythm of this song
cheer up her sorrow and make her forgetting all
her sadness. The song became a
lullaby. The little girl slept under the tree
and the big tree lowering its branch so the
sun light could not harm her body. When she slept
too long, the tree wake her up by
falling one leaf to her cheek.
Day by the day over, There was big news that the
King wanted to make a new royal ship.
Many old tree being cut off, the wood is used to
make that new ship. Gadis is worried,
she remember to her big old tree. She wonders is
the tree has cut off too.
At the day, after she gets water, she runs to her
tree. She found there was a
white cross sign at the tree which mean her lovely
tree will be cut too. Gadis was so
sad, she can not say any single word. Her tear has
dropped, she hugs the tree tightly.
"My beloved three, perhaps this is the last day
we've ever meet. Tomorrow they will cut you
and I will loose you forever. What's making sad
that I could not do anything to stop it.
God bye my beloved three", cried her
The tree is lowering its branch, it seems he want
to hug that little girl too. The leafs swap her
tear softly and suddenly there was a sound.
"Please don't be sad, my child. The royal
ship will not sail without your wish. You must come
aboard and together with me we
will sail together ,"
At the morning the big tree was cut. After some month
later the ship has done. The King
was very happy and make a big celebration. The biggest
party was made for the first
time to celebrate it. However when they want to
launch the ship to the water, the ship could
not move. Many people try to push the ship to the
water but still the ship could not move.
The King became upset and angry.
The news about the royal ship which could not move
came to Gadis ear. She remember to the
last message from her big tree. She tried hard to
go to the harbor and finally she
met the King. She asked his permission to sail
the ship. The King was not belief because many effort has done to make
the ship move but finally
when the ship was still could not move he decided
to allow her. Gadis came to the ship, with her
love she swept the steer.
"My tree please help me. Move and sail! All people
want to see you sailing to the
ocean". Every people saw and waited what was
going happen. The ship moved one inch to one inch and go to the ocean slowly.
People who saw it yelling happily. And the man who was very happy was the
King himself. He asked , "How could you make this ship sail?" "By the God
bless, Your Honest. The ship was made from wood of my friend, the old big
tree", answered Gadis politely. Gadis told King all her life. The
heart of King was touched, because he did not have a child he adopted Gadis
as a princess.