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By Hans Christian Andersen In China, as you well know, the Emperor is Chinese, and all around him are Chinese also. Now what I am about to relate happened many years ago, but even
By Aesop Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.
By the Brothers Grimm An honest farmer had once an ass that had been a faithful servant to him a great many years, but was now growing old and every day more and more unfit
Collected by Joseph Jacobs. Once upon a time there was a woman, and she baked five pies. And when they came out of the oven, they were that overbaked the crusts were too hard to
The Gnat and The Bull By Aesop A Gnat flew over the meadow with much buzzing for so small a creature and settled on the tip of one of the horns of a Bull. After
The Storks By Hans Christian Andersen On the roof of a house situated at the extremity of a small town, a stork had built his nest. There sat the mother-stork, with her four young ones,
The Shepherd Boy and The Wolf By Aesop A Shepherd Boy tended his master’s Sheep near a dark forest not far from the village. Soon he found life in the pasture very dull. All he
The Ass and His Driver By Aesop An Ass was being driven along a road leading down the mountain side, when he suddenly took it into his silly head to choose his own path. He
The Wolf and the Crane By Aesop A Wolf had been feasting too greedily, and a bone had stuck crosswise in his throat. He could get it neither up nor down, and of course he
My Lord Bag of Rice Compiled Yei Theodora Ozaki Long, long ago there lived, in Japan a brave warrior known to all as Tawara Toda, or “My Lord Bag of Rice.” His true name was
A Story of the Famine in Shang-Tong Province This is a folk story of nineteen hundred years ago Chinese Fables and Folk Stories By Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung The Widow and Her Son
Chinese Fables and Folk Stories By Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung The Animals’ Peace Party The ancient books say that the pig is a very unclean animal and of no great use to the
The Little Mermaid By Hans Christian Andersen Far out in the wide sea,—where the water is blue as the loveliest cornflower, and clear as the purest crystal, where it is so deep that very, very
In 'The Bundle of Sticks' by Aesop, a father teaches his quarreling sons a valuable lesson about the strength of unity. Unable to break a bundle of sticks together, but easily breaking them individually, the
The Fox and the Grapes By Aesop A Fox one day spied a beautiful bunch of ripe grapes hanging from a vine trained along the branches of a tree. The grapes seemed ready to burst