The First Coconut Tree

• Katrina Kua, Grade 3
• Short Story
• 2015

Once upon a time, there was a little village and every afternoon lots of fishermen used to go out fishing. There was a fisherman and he used to catch lots of fish but the other fisherman didn't get any fish at all.
So they sent a spy to go and see how he caught his fish. The spy hid under the bush and then when the fisherman took his head off, he went under the sea and caught lots of fish. When he swam back up again he poured the fish down into his fishing basket. He felt around for his head, but he couldn't find it, because the spy had hid it in a bush.
The fisherman never found his head, so he went back in the ocean and drowned in the sea. So many years passed. The spy then went to see if the head was still there but it turned into a big plant, so the spy made his little garden next to the big plant. Then one of the seeds fell from the tree and he cracked the seed and drank it.
He named it coconut.