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April 15, 2018

The Bear and the Two Travelers (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing that he...

April 10, 2018

THE NODDING TIGER (A CHINESE WONDER BOOK) BY NORMAN HINSDALE PITMAN

THE NODDING TIGER ust outside the walls of a Chinese city there lived a young woodcutter named T’ang and his old mother, a woman of seventy. They were very poor and had a tiny...

April 8, 2018

The Fox and the Goat (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A FOX one day fell into a deep well and could find no means of escape. A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water...

April 3, 2018

WHITE FEATHER AND THE SIX GIANTS (The Indian Fairy Book, 1869) BY CORNELIUS MATHEWS

There was an old man living in the depth of a forest, with his grandson, whom he had taken in charge when quite an infant. The child had no parents, brothers, or sisters; they...

April 1, 2018

The Dog in the Manger (Aesop’s fables) by Aesop

A DOG lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. “What a selfish Dog!” said one of them to...

March 27, 2018

THE STORY OF PRINCESS HASE (Tales of Old Japan) by YEI THEODORA OZAKI

Many, many years ago there lived in Nara, the ancient Capital of Japan, a wise State minister, by name Prince Toyonari Fujiwara. His wife was a noble, good, and beautiful woman called Princess Murasaki...