Dogo Mountain

There was once a mountain called Dogo Mountain where men made of stone lived. Nobody went there because they were scared of the stone men just because they could breathe fire and set themselves alight when they got angry. Even the name of the mountain made people scared because Dogo actually meant “don’t go.”

One gloomy ordinary boring day some humans came to Dogo Mountain. This was a rare occasion. Some guy wearing clothes declared that the stone men must find a different home, because the humans wanted to build houses there. The little man was instantly roasted alive by a stone man.

The next day the king’s army arrived and attacked Dogo Mountain. The stone men hurled fire balls at the enemies and soon they had the upper hand. The stone men battered the king’s army, and when they had almost won, the enemies brought in a secret weapon. It was a giant hose pipe. Without their fire the people of Dogo Mountain couldn’t fight back. The hose pipe extinguished all the fires.

Then all of a sudden a stone man pushed a rock and it rolled down the hill and squashed the hose pipe. After that the stone men and the humans became friends and they all lived happily together.

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