Beetle Boy and the Talking Coconut

Beetle Boy was known all over the jungle as a prankster. He was always playing tricks on the other animals, even if it hurt their feelings. He didn’t care. He was having too much fun to stop.

One day, while he was playing in a coconut tree, he noticed Pinky the parrot flying overhead. Beetle Boy dived inside the nearest coconut and began one of his tricks.

“Hey, dumb bird. Why are your wings so funny? Why are you flying so slowly?”

Pinky looked around, but all he could see were coconuts. One coconut kept calling to him and making rude remarks.

He went up to the tree and picked it up. “I will take you to see the king of the jungle. Let’s see if you talk to him this way. He will be pleased to have a coconut that can talk.”

When the king of the jungle, George the Great, saw the coconut and heard the story, he didn’t believe it could talk. He whispered to the coconut, and then shouted at it, but it would not answer. George the Great was becoming angry. He lifted the coconut and threw it with all his might. It cracked, and out ran Beetle Boy.

Pinky and the king smiled. So, Beetle Boy was behind all this noise!

“Beetle Boy,” said George the Great. “I declare that you will work for me in the coconut trees for the rest of your life. Without pay.”

From that day on, the joke was on Beetle Boy. He worked in the coconut trees with no pay and was only given bread and water. He was never allowed to play tricks again.