The

Yellow

king

Hi! This is a competition!

Ready, steady… go!!!

Was upon a time….a Chinese King called “The Yellow King”. He decided to do a competition in order to give every year a name of an animal.

The ox, the cat and the rat went first. But during the way….

The rat pushed the cat to the lake and…later….

The rat jumped out, he was first! The ox looked amazed…and he was second.

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Later, the tiger arrived swimming.

He was the third one.

4.

Then, the rabbit came jumping.

He was the fourth one.

5.

In the fifth place came the dragon.

The King asked the dragon: “You can fly! , Why are you so late?”

He said: “ well, it was rainning….”

““And I waited until it was sunny”

“ I don´t like water!”

The snake and the horse came together but the snake jumped and become sixth

and the horse, he looked angrily, seventh.

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7.

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10.

Afterwards, the goat,

the monkey and the hen arrived.

11.

The dog was almost the last one, the 11th because he stopped for having a bath.

12. The pig was the last one, the 12th because he was very hungry and stopped for eating some corn.

1 RAT 1972 1984 1996 2008

2 OX 1973 1985 1997 2009

3 TIGER 1974 1986 1998 2010

4 RABBIT 1975 1987 1999 2011

5 DRAGON 1976 1988 2000 2012

6 SNAKE 1977 1989 2001

7 HORSE 1978 1990 2002

8 GOAT 1979 1991 2003

9 MONKEY 1980 1992 2004

10 HEN 1981 1993 2005

11 DOG 1990 1994 2006

12 PIG 1991 1995 2007

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