The heat was terrible in summer. Everyone was saying bad things about the sun. The angry sun hid himself. It became cold and dark.
“Please come back, O sun,” everyone begged, but the sun refused.
“Let’s send our messenger to the sun,” the birds decided and chose the cock.
“Please return and save us,” the cock reached the sun’s palace and requested.
“I shall never return to the skies,” the sun declared.
“Oh, I’ll have to return home in the dark. The jungle cat will be waiting to pounce on me,” the cock said.
“I shall save you,” the Sun said.
“I’ll call out loudly if he attacks me,” the cock said and left. But the cock started calling out as soon as he was a little far away, “Cock-a-doodle-do!”
“I must save the cock,” the sun rushed out, but the cock hid. The sun couldn’t find him. Till today, the Sun emerges only after the cock crows at dawn. The cock always hides and the sun can never find him.
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