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For more story goodies, visit: WWW.STORYTIMEMAGAZINE.COM/SHOP PLUS IF YOU’RE LOOKING FOR A GIFT IDEA YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TODAY FROM ONLY £2 AN ISSUE – IT’S PERFECT FOR THE SCHOOL HOLIDAYS! TO SUBSCRIBE, VISIT WWW.STORYTIMEMAGAZINE.COM/HALFPRICE * Half price offer only valid in the UK and Direct Debit subscriptions. You will be charged £8 for your first 4 issues, then you will continue at a reduced rate of up to 29% off.OR Subscription CALL offer 0844 subject to322 availability. 1247 Your subscription will begin with issue. Please allow 28 days for delivery. Calls to the number above will cost 7p per minute plus your telephone company’s access charge. r subscription the next available Famous Fables The Crab Walk t was a clear, sunny day, so a mummy crab decided to allow Iher baby crab out of the rock pool for the first time. Mummy crab perched on a rock with her friend, the seagull, and watched her baby clamber out through the seaweed and over the rocks, and then scuttle sideways across the sand. The baby crab was so excited by the new sights and sounds around her and the sensation of the soft sand beneath her claws, she whooped for joy. Round and round in circles she went with her speedy sideways scurry. What an adventure! “Oh dear!” sighed the mummy crab to the seagull. “How clumsy and awkward she looks! How embarrassing! Please excuse us.” The mother shouted to her excited A few hours later, exhausted by the little baby, “No, no, dear! That’s not effort, she returned to her mother. how it’s done. Don’t you know the “Mummy, I’m so sorry, but I just can’t proper, grown-up way to walk? The walk forwards like you told me to. way the seagulls do it? You have to Perhaps you could show me how to walk forwards with your toes pointed do it and I can try to copy you?” out a little, not sideways like that!” “Very well,” said mummy crab, and The little crab was surprised to hear she made her way over the rocks to it, as walking sideways felt so normal. the sand. Once there, she tried to put “Okay, Mummy, I didn’t know. I’ll try one claw in front of the other, but it my hardest.” And she darted away. was much harder than she realised. As mummy crab chatted with the Her claws soon got tangled up and, seagull, the baby crab tried to walk before she knew it, she had fallen forwards, but her little claws just flat on her face in the sand! couldn’t manage it. No matter how hard she tried, she went sideways. 7 As she pushed herself up again, she saw her baby’s puzzled face and blushed with embarrassment. “Perhaps sideways walking isn’t so bad, after all,” she smiled. And, together, they sideways-scuttled their way back to the rock pool. That day, mummy crab learnt that you shouldn’t tell others what to do until you’ve tried it for yourself! Did You Know? Crabs have 10 legs, including their two big claws at the front. Their legs don’t bend the same way as human legs, which is why they can only walk sideways, and not forwards or backwards. 8 Myths and Legends Hercules and theLion ercules was a very special young man – his mother was human, Hbut his father was the powerful god Zeus. This made Hercules a demigod or half-god. This meant that Hercules had extraordinary strength and, sometimes, a temper to match. What he didn’t know was that his fits of anger were caused by the goddess Hera, who was the wife of Zeus and had always been jealous of Hercules. For a long time, Hera had secretly been using her powers to get Hercules into trouble. As he grew older, Hercules became so worried by his outbursts of rage that he visited his local temple for advice. The oracle there told him that he must serve the cruel and cold-hearted King Eurystheus for twelve years. In that time, if he could complete the missions set for him by the king, he would put his anger and strength to good use and win the gift of immortality. 9 Before Hercules arrived at the king’s This fearsome lion was well known palace, Hera visited Eurystheus and for preying on families. Many had secretly devised some terrible tasks tried to kill the lion before and none for the demigod to complete. She had succeeded. It was thought to be called the tasks the ‘Twelve Labours’ an impossible task. and was certain that they would When Hercules arrived at court, King finish off Hercules for good. Eurystheus snarled, “Bring me the The first labour was to slay a lion skin of the Nemean lion, or there will that had been terrorising the hills of be consequences...” Nemea for some time. This wasn’t just any lion – the Nemean lion had a golden coat as hard as armour and claws so sharp they could slice through the toughest shield. Think About It! The reason so many heroes failed to slay the Nemean lion was that it couldn’t be killed by the weapon of a mortal – it had to belong to a demigod, like Hercules, or a god. Can you think of three things as tough as the Nemean lion? 10 Armed with his bow, arrows and a When the lion finally skulked away, club, Hercules set off for Nemea. Hercules stealthily tracked it until he saw it withdraw into a cave. Hercules checked around the cave and found For several days and nights, he a second entrance. Using his great followed the deadly beast’s tracks strength, he rolled a gigantic boulder through the trees. Hercules hardly across the opening to trap the lion dared go to sleep, for fear that the inside, then he bravely entered the lion would attack him. dark lair armed with his courage and with his weapons at the ready. At last, one evening, he caught sight of the lion deep in the forest. He let Hercules crept into the depths of the his arrows fly, but was shocked to see cave and tiptoed right up to the mighty them bounce off the lion’s tough coat lion, then bashed it over the head with without even making a mark. The lion his club. The lion was stunned, but not roared with anger and thrashed about, knocked out, and it leapt to its feet, looking for its attacker, but Hercules let out a thunderous roar and stayed well out of sight.