The Coconut Boy

There once was a poor boy who lived by climbing up coconut trees and picking cocoanuts for selling.
And one day he heard that the daughter of the king of his island had been placed at the top of a gigantic tree with a trunk that was so smooth that no one, even though many smart and brave warriors had tried, could climb up it.
But the cocoanut boy was sure that he could climb up the tree and rescue the princess.
And, carrying a long rope wound round his neck, he put a tree climbing rope around his bare feet and he gripped the trunk of the tree with both his hands, the soles of his feet and the rope between them and, wriggling like an inch worm, he inched his way slowly up the slippery tree until he reached the top.
And when he got to the top he tied the long rope he had carried round his neck to the treetop so that he and the island princess could climb  down the tree to the bottom.
Unfortunately, no sooner had he done this when the wizard who had imprisoned the princess at the top of the tree came back and seeing the rope, he started to climb up the slippery tree just like a spider using only his hands and feet.
At first the coconut boy was terrified but then he looked and saw how big and spiky the fruit of the slippery tree was that was hanging from its branches and he told the princess,
"Pick as much of that fruit as you can. We will use that".
And so the princess and he started to pick the strange spiky fruit and then, hurling the fruit with all his might, he rained it down upon the wizard and though the wizard managed to dodge the first three of the spiky fruits, the forth one hit him right upon the head, knocking him out of tree.
The wizard fell from the tree and fell so hard that he split in two just like a coconut; infact was hollow like a coconut but, unlike a coconut, had a magic knife inside
After that the coconut boy, using the rope, climbed down the slippery tree with the princess clinging to him and when he found the magic knife that was in the hollow husk of the dead wizard, he took it as a prize.
Unfortunately, when he returned to the king of the island with his daughter because he was just a coconut boy and not a warrior, the king did not want him to marry his daughter and so he sent him on a dangerous errand, hoping that he would not return.
"There is a giant living wave that lives out in the sea and crashes down upon our fishing boats, destroying them and the wave has a pearl for a heart", said the king, "To marry my daughter, you must bring me the pearl".
And so, using the wizards magic knife, the boy cut wood and built a canoe and carved out a paddle with its blade too.
Then he paddled across the sea to meet the giant living wave.
And as he did, he saw the giant wave rise up with a roar like the ocean and long teeth of white foam.
But the coconut boy was as brave as any warrior and so he kept rowing towards it.
So then the wave crashed down upon him to split his canoe in two.
However, because his canoe and oar had been carved out with the wizards knife, the boat was not split in two, infact it stayed as steady as a rock on dry land and, try as he might, the mighty killer wave could not even tip the boat over.
But then, angry, the wave turned itself into a gigantic clawed hand and, grabbing hold of the coconut boy lifted him up out of the canoe.
Fortunately, the boy was still holding the paddle that, because it had been carved with the wizards magic knife was also magic and, to the wonderment of the boy, suddenly he saw it change from a paddle into a harpoon and, realising what it must be for, he hurled the harpoon into the heart of the living wave then the wave started to subside and the sea became calm.
But then, like a large bubble, a pearl bobbed up from beneath the ocean and when he clung on tightly to the pearl it carried him ashore.
Then the boy returned to the village of the king rolling the gigantic pearl before him and when the king saw the pearl he could no longer deny what a great warrior the coconut boy was and so he agreed to let him marry his daughter and, wearing a dress made of flowers, she was wed to him that night upon the beach and beneath a full moon and they lived happily evermore.