The Tigerman From Sumatra

Once upon a time, there was a salesman who used to travel  from village to village to sell cloth. One day, he was on his way on the road  carrying his big bundle of cloth. He walked on and on, the further he walked the bush becomes the trees which grew on each side of the road. This makes him confused looking for a way out “ Oh no, where I am now ? there is no sign of a village here. I should go back to the way that I've been through before the night come.”But when he attempted to down the road which he had passed, the road is gone “ Oh may god where is the road ? i can’t find my way back. I think i get lost.”. A long last, when he could hardly see the shadows of the trees because it started to be dark in that forest, the salesman saw a big house “ Thanks god there is a house over there.” he excitedly walked towards the house. When he knocked the door, an old woman opened the door  she said “ what are you doing here ? ” “ I am a salesmen who sell cloth from village to village. But i get lost in this forest.  Can you allowed me to stay in your house just for one night because the forest was full of tigers and i afraid if those tigers would ate me.”

The old woman feel sorry for the salesman but he could do nothing “  My husband, brother and son were all tigers. If they found you in the house, they would kill you. ” . The man felt very frightened, he didn't know what to do. Finally, the old woman felt very sorry for him and allowed the man entered the house. After a while the woman have an idea. She warned the man not to make any noise while her family was at home. Then she gave the man meal, took the bundle of cloth from him and hides him in a small room at the top of the house. Then the man growling and scratching in the room downstairs.

                The tiger’s man had come home. As soon as they were inside, those tigers said they smelt a man inside the house “ what is this smell ? it’s smell like a human here. Hey my wife did you see a human around here ?” quickly the old woman said “ There were no human in the house, but half an hour ago there was a man trying to sell cloth. He left his bundle behind, and then he went to the forest to sleep under the tree. Tomorrow he'll come back for the bundle.” . Those tiger’s people were very interested in the cloth and wanted to have one. Every one of them chose a sarong and a head scarf and paid for those things with big pieces of gold since they didn't have money at all.

After dinner they decided to go back to the forest to look for the man and frightened him. It would be fun to frighten the daylights out of him, they thought. The next morning, the old woman woke up the man “ Hey wake up, you must as fast as you could before the tigers men came from the forest.”  The old woman gave him the pieces of gold and showed him the nearest way to the village. The man thanked to the woman then walked away as fast as he could. He didn’t stop until he arrived in the main road and knew that he was safe. When he looked at his bag, he saw that gold and found that they were worth a thousand times more than the cloth the tigers people had bought. He returned home as a rich man. How happy he was.

Some time latter when he had forgotten about the dangerous night, he decided to go back to the house in the forest with some expensive woven cloth and jewels to sell to the tiger’s men. But when he arrived at the place where the crossroad used to be, he found that the wide and smooth path had disappeared. For days he walked around the whole area, but he couldn't find the way to the old woman's house.

question
1. who's get lost in the forest...?
a.salesman   b.old woman   c.tigerman  d.people   e.tigerman brother
2.what is salesman sell from village to village...?
a.shoes   b.car   c.book   d.motorcycle   e.cloth
3.who is tigerman...?
a. old woman brother  b.old woman husband   c.old woman son   d.old woman friends   
e. old woman grand father
4.why the salesman must hide...?
a.he shy to meet the old woman   b.he afraid of thief   c.he afraid of tigerman  d.he afraid of old woman
e.he afraid of dark in that forest
5.what saleswoman brought home from tigerman house...?
a.bundle of cloth  b.rock   c.leaf   d.gold   e.diamond