The+Talking+Skull

This was a cool story in an English packet we got this year

//**The Talking Skull**// A hunter goes into the bush. He finds an old human skull. The hunter says: "What brought you here?" The skull answers: "Talking brought me here." The hunter runs off. He runs to the king. He tells the king: "I found a dry human skull in the bush. It asks you how its father and mother are."

The king says: "Never since my mother bore me have I heard that a dead skull can speak." The king summons Alkali, the Saba, and the Degi and asks them if hey have ever heared the like. None of the wise men has heard the like and they decide to send a gaurd out with the hunter into the bush to find out if his story is true and, if so, to learn the reason for it. The gaurd accompany the hunter into the bush with the order to kill him on the spot should he have lied. The gaurd and the hunter come to the skull. The hunter addresses the skull: "Skull, speak." The skull is silent. The hunter asks as before: "What brought you here?" The skull does not answer. The whole day long the hunter begs the skull to speak, but it does not answer. In the evening the gaurd tells the hunter to make the skull speak, and when he cannot they kill him in accordance with the king's command. When the gaurd are gone the skull opens its jaws and asks the dead hunter's head: "What brought you here?" The dead hunter's head replies: "Talking brought me here!"