The Crab and The Monkey by Andrew Lang:
Characters: The Crab Lady, Monkey, Wasp, Egg, Mortar
Crab: is a nice lady and happily gives people free things. She makes trades that probably aren't the best on face value, but she thinks long term.
Monkey: wants to chill and is very greedy. Also is a liar.
Plot: Crab is living peacefully on the darker side of a mountain. One day, a pilgrim had forgotten some rice by Crab's home. She was excited and started moving it into her house. Monkey then comes down and because he loves rice, asks Crab to trade half of her rice for a seed. Crab takes the deal and the monkey heads off happily and goes to the bright side of the mountain for a long time. Eventually, the monkey returns and sees a tree full of fruit next to where Crab lives. He asks Crab if he can have some fruit. She says yes, but just make sure to get some down for me I can't climb a tree. Monkey goes up and starts stuffing fruit into his pockets and mouth. Just really hogging up all the fruit. Crab asks him to do a somersault and when he does, the fruit all falls down and Crab quickly goes and stashes it away in her house. Monkey then jumps down and bets her to a pulp. Wasp, egg, and mortar see this and decide they're gonna trick Monkey and teach him a lesson. They set up a trap where the egg shatters into the monkey's eyes, then wasp stings him, and then he falls down and hits his head on the mortar and dies.
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Things I Could Change: Why is one of the characters a sentient egg. I think I will change up Crab's friends a bit. I think I could change them to all be animals rather than there being a sentient egg and mortar.
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