Last Saturday, a monkey, a tiger and an elephant had a race. The monkey said, "Let's run to that tall tree and see who gets there first." They started to run. It was a long way. At first the tiger ran faster than the elephant and the monkey. The elephant ran as fast as the monkey. But soon the elephant was tired. He asked the monkey to have a rest. The monkey said, "It's not very far. It's about one kilometre away. Come on, please." But suddenly the elephant got a bad cough. The tiger turned back and laughed at him. At last the monkey got first. The tiger could not laugh again.