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Ka ngaihdan chuan fanghmir finze thu hi a phu loh khawp khawpin kan sawi uar lu deuh thin niin ka hria. Nipui hun lai leh fur khawthian hun laia a aia tihtur tangkai zawk ka ngah laia hun rei tak tak fanghmir chungchang ka lo thlir thinna atangin ka hre mai. Chu’ng ka hunawl lo hmanthat loh laite chuan fanghmir nung hi a thi aia a fin zawkna reng reng ka hmu chhuak ngai lo. Fanghmir naran, fanghmir hnamchawm chungchang thu chauh hi a nia ka sawi ngam ni.

Fanghmir chanchin zir mite’na Swiss leh African fanghmir chi danglam leh fing tak tak, sipai pawl te nei a, bawih leh chhiahhlawh pawh kawl a, inthlanna ‘vote’ te pawh thlak ve a, sakhaw thua te pawha Ruatlawk thu thleng thlenga inhnial ve thinte chanchin an sawi chu ka hriatpui ngam ve awzawng lo mai. Fanghmir chanchin inti-hria leh hria intite chuan an duhtawk-tawkin an duhthusamna nen duh leh fanghmir chu lo fakin lo sawi-mawi teh se, kei hi zawngin fanghmir hi dawt-bur mai mai a nih ka hre chiang em mai.

A taimakzia hi chu ka pha a ni hranpa lo. A lo entute’na an en peih chhung chu khawvela thil nungte zinga a taima ber anga lan hi a tum tlat thin alawm. Mahsela, chu a taimak derna chu a atna hian a lo belhchhah ta thin a; a vervekzia lo hre chiangtu tan chuan thil nung azawnga entawntlak loh ber niin ka hria.

Tul puiina a nang hman ang mai hian hmanhmawh engphiarin a han ramchhuak ve a; khawii lam khirkhawng emawni hi satlaw tuihnai tak emaw tiin a va chhar a; engtinnge a tih tak thin le? Hlado te chhamin in lamah a lawipui mai ta thin em ni a? Teuh nang! In lam te chu a awmna pawh a hriat leh tawh in ring em ni? An in chu a satlaw lem chharna atanga tawng thum leka hnai pawh a ni mai thei-a a awmna hre tawh mawlh hek lo.

A satlaw lem chhar chu an chhungkaw tan pawha tangkai lo tur, tu tan maha hlutna chhe te pawh nei lo tur chi hi a ni deuh ziah a. Dan naranin ama pumraw let sawmhnih vela hrawl leh rit hi a ni bawk a. Chu aia te chu a iai ve khanglang thin a ni awm a; a len zawh poh leh chawimawina no a hlawh lian mai dawn niin a hria a ni ta ve ang.

A lakna tur remchang lo berah a han tham phawt a; boruakah a han lekkawh vu vu a, a han kalpui ta ngei mai a. Khawi lam hawiin nge kalpuia i rin tak le? In lam hawi te chuan ni teuh na’ng! Ram lam hawi daihin asin a kalpui tak thin ni. A thahrui ren zawnga kalpui lovin, a hmanhmawh phili thei ang berin a kalpui a. Lungte pakhat a va tawk a; hel ta’ng e pawh hi ti lovin, lawn liam hram a tum ta zawk a.

Tan a han insiam a, mawng lam hmathehin a hnuhin a hnuk a; lehlamah a han tlak liampui tawp a. A thil ken chu a nghat a, a thawmhnaw bawlhhlawh chu tuaifaiin, a kutah chil a han hnawm leh te te a, chuta a han inpu chhuak leh ta chu, ahma ai mahin a phili nasa lehzual ta a. A thil hnuh a titang zing lutuk chu, a thinur a, a lekkawh leh lawk a, khawchhak lam hawia kalpui khan khawthlang lam daih a panpui leh ta a.

Darkar chanve ralah a thil hawn tum kha a chharna atanga khap leka hnaiah a rawn keuh ta a. Chutah a chal thlan luang chu a han hru a; a kut leh ke vel a han hru bawk a; thil thar hre chhuak niawm tak hian hmanhmawh mangkhengin ram dang daih panin a lim leh ta chiam mai a. A kikawi leh kikiau thei ang berin a tlan kual a; a tawpah chuan a thil hnutchhiah bawk kha a va tawng fu leh ta a, thil thar chharin a han chhar leh a; a hmaa darkar chanve zet a lo buaipui hrep tawh kha a ni ang tihna chang reng reng a hre lo. Tichuan, a hma ang te bawk khan a chai kual leh ta chiam mai thin a ni.

A tihngaihna hrelo chu a han chawl ta a. Chutih lai chuan ama rimnam an mi leh sa tuemaw hi a lo kal ta a; an han inchukha hnu chuan a thianpa chuan kum kal taa perhpawng bawppui khawro te chu khuaa luhpui atana thil duhawm ber niin a hriatpui ta ni ang chu, contract thuthlung an siam dun a, zawn haw dun an tum ta a. Pakhat a hmawr lehlamah a tang a, pakhat zawk chu a hmawr lehlamah.

Chuta an han chawikang dun ta chu a ni lo lam ve ve ah tha tawpin an han hnuk dun ta a. An inhrui pawh chu an inhneh tawk chiah a ni ang, an vawn an thlah a, a laiah an han inbe-rawn leh a. Chethmang thiam lo zawk tuemaw chu an awm  ngei niin an hre ta a; tan lo thiamlo zawkah an inpuh tawn a, an insual ta hrep mai a. pakhat chuan a pakhat zawk bawp chu a thlinthlawnsak ta nghe nghe a. Remna sa-ui tana an han hnuk dun leh ta chu, a ke pakhat bul zawk tan kha a lo tawlh ta a. A duhna lam chu khawi’lam nge tih a pawimawh tehchiam lo va ni ang, a kal awlsamna lam apiangah a hnuk kual mai a ni.

A tawpah chuan an perhpawn bawp zawn chu an chharna hmun bawk kha an thlen leh ta a; an hah lutuk an han nghat leh ta chawrh mai a. Chuta an han inrawn leh chuan perhpawn bawp tawl mai mai te chu khawvela itawm loh berah an phuthlu ta a ni ang chu, perhpawng bawk tluka ritsak leh tangkai lo thil dang zawng tur chuan an kal hrang leh ta a. Chuta an thil va tawn hmasak ber chu tu-ma duh loh, fanghmir chauhvina thathlawn senga an duh tur chi bawk a ni ang tih chu hriat sa vek a ni.

Tunkhat pawh fanghmir pakhat hian minute 20 chhung ngawt mai ama buk let sawm vela rit tur maimawm ruang khawro hi a buaipui a. Fanghmir chu mihring tiat ni ta ang se, emaw, mihring hian chu finghmir tih ang chu ti ve ta zawk emaw ni ila chu, bawng chal pound 800-a rit pahnih kan hnuk ang a, lungpui mihring chen chena sang engemaw zat chu hel nachang pawh hre lovin kan lawn liampui ang a; Niagara (naiagara) Tuikhawhthla chen chena sang kham pangah te kan tlakpui duai duai thin ang a; Bian-in chhip chen chena sangah te kan lawn chhohpui ang a; taima leh remhria min titute’na min lo en peih chhung chu chutiang chuan kan buaipui peih ang.

Fanghmir chanchin zir mi sciencetist-te chuan fanghmir hian thlasik fur tlak hun thla engemaw zar chhung atan hian ei tur engmah an lo chhekkhawm ngailo tih ah hmu chhuak leh ta nghal a; fanghmir taimakna khan lo sawi vul hlut thin hi tlang bum nana an chhuah mai mai a nih a lo lang chiang ta a ni. Engtinnge kum zabi hei leh chen mihring hi min lo bum theih ngai chu aw? ka ti ta zawk a ni. An nungchangah hian kei chuan finna han zir tur chhe te mah hi ka hmu ve thei lo.

Mark Twain-a ziah zawk chu :

The Laborious Ant

Now and then, while we rested, we watched the laborious ant at his work. I found nothing new in him – certainly nothing to change my opinion of him. It seems to me that in the matter of intellect the ant must be a strangely overrated bird. During the many summers, now, I have watched him, when I ought to have been in better business, and I have not yet come across a living ant that seemed to have any more sense than a dead one. I refer to the ordinary ant, of course; I have no experience of those wonderful Swiss and African ones which vote, keep drilled armies, hold slaves, and dispute about religion. Those particular ants may be all that the naturalist paints them, but I am persuaded that the average ant is a sham.

I admit his industry, of course; he is the hardest working creature in the world,–when anybody is looking,–but his leather-headedness is the point I make against him. He goes out foraging, he makes a capture, and then what does he do? Go home? No,–he goes anywhere but home. He doesn’t know where home is. His home may be only three feet away,–no matter, he can’t find it.

He makes his capture, as I have said; it is generally something which can be of no sort of use to himself or anybody else; it is usually seven times bigger than it ought to be; he hunts out the awkwardest place to take hold of it; he lifts it bodily up in the air by main force, and starts; not toward home, but in the opposite direction; not calmly and wisely, but with a frantic haste which is wasteful of his strength; he fetches up against a pebble, and instead of going around it, he climbs over it backwards dragging his booty after him, tumbles down on the other side, jumps up in a passion, kicks the dust off his clothes, moistens his hands, grabs his property viciously, yanks it this way then that, shoves it ahead of him a moment, turns tail and lugs it after him another moment, gets madder and madder, then presently hoists in into the air and goes tearing away in an entirely new direction; comes to a weed; it never occurs to him to go around it; no, he must climb it; and he does climb it, dragging his worthless property to the top–which is as bright a thing to do as it would be for me to carry a sack of flour from Heidelberg to Paris by way of Strasburg steeple, when he gets up there he finds that that is not the place; takes a cursory glance at the scenery and either climbs down again or tumbles down, and starts off once more–as usual, in a new direction.

At the end of half an hour, he fetches up within six inches of the place he started from and lays his burden down; meantime he has been over all the ground for two yards around, and climbed all the weeds and pebbles he came across. Now he wipes the sweat from his brow, strokes his limbs, and then marches aimlessly off, in as violent a hurry as ever. He traverses a good deal of zig-zag country, and by and by stumbles on this same booty again. He does not remember to have ever seen it before; he looks around to see which is not the way home, grabs his bundle and starts; he goes through the same adventures he had before; finally stops to rest, and a friend comes along.

Evidently the friend remarks that a last year’s grasshopper leg is a very noble acquisition, and inquires where he got it. Evidently the proprietor does not remember exactly where he did get it, but thinks he got it “around here somewhere.” Evidently the friend contracts to help him freight it home. Then, with a judgment peculiarly antic, (pun not intentional) they take hold of opposite ends of that grasshopper leg and begin to tug with all their might in opposite directions. Presently they take a rest and confer together. They decide that something is wrong, they can’t make out what. Then they go at it again, just as before. Same result. Mutual recriminations follow. Evidently each accuses the other of being an obstructionist. They warm up, and the dispute ends in a fight. They lock themselves together and chew each other’s jaws for a while; then they roll and tumble on the ground till one loses a horn or a leg and has to haul off for repairs.

They make up and go to work again in the same old insane way, but the crippled ant is at a disadvantage; tug as he may, the other one drags off the booty and him at the end of it. Instead of giving up, he hangs on, and gets his shins bruised against every obstruction that comes in the way. By and by, when that grasshopper leg has been dragged all over the same old ground once more, it is finally dumped at about the spot where it originally lay, the two perspiring ants inspect it thoughtfully and decide that dried grasshopper legs are a poor sort of property after all, and then each starts off in a different direction to see if he can’t find an old nail or something else that is heavy enough to afford entertainment and at the same time valueless enough to make an ant want to own it.

There in the Black Forest, on the mountain side, I saw an ant go through with such a performance as this with a dead spider of fully ten times his own weight. The spider was not quite dead, but too far gone to resist. He had a round body the size of a pea. The little ant–observing that I was noticing–turned him on his back, sunk his fangs into his throat, lifted him into the air and started vigorously off with him, stumbling over little pebbles, stepping on the spider’s legs and tripping himself up, dragging him backwards, shoving him bodily ahead, dragging him backwards, shoving him bodily ahead, dragging him up stones six inches high instead of going around them, climbing weeds twenty times his own height and jumping from their summits,–and finally leaving him in the middle of the road to be confiscated by any other fool of an ant that wanted him.

I measured the ground which this ass traversed, and arrived at the conclusion that what he had accomplished inside of twenty minutes would constitute some such job as this,–relatively speaking,–for a man; to-wit: to strap two eight-hundred pound horses together,carry then eighteen hundred feet, mainly over (not around) bowlders averaging six feet high, and in the course of the journey climb up and jump from the top of one precipice like Niagara, and three steeples, each a hundred and twenty feet high; and then put the horses down, in an exposed place, without anybody to watch them, and go off to indulge in some other idiotic miracle for vanity’s sake.

Science has recently discovered that the ant does not lay up anything for winter use. This will knock him out of literature, to some extent. He does not work, except when people are looking, and only then when the observer has a green, naturalistic look, and seems to be taking notes. This amounts to deception, and will injure him for the Sunday schools. He has not judgment enough to know what is good to eat from what isn’t. This amounts to ignorance, and will impair the world’s respect for him.

He cannot stroll around a stump and find his way home again. This amounts to idiocy, and once the damaging fact is established, thoughtful people will cease to look up to him, the sentimental will cease to fondle him. His vaunted industry is but a vanity and of no effect, since he never gets home with anything he starts with. This disposes of the last remnant of his reputation and wholly destroys his main usefulness as a moral agent, since it will make the sluggard hesitate to go to him any more. It is strange beyond comprehension, that so manifest a humbug as the ant has been able to fool so many nations and keep it up so many ages without being found out.

( A thui deuh mai thei a ni 🙂 )

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