Reading A: Bidpai

This story is part of the Bidpai unit. Story source: The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 1908.

  • The Rustic and the Nightingale
    • Rustic took great pride in his rose tree
    • Nightingale bird kept destroying it
    • Rustic captured it and the bird talked him into letting him go
    • Moral: Karma?
  • The Kind, the Falcon, and the Drinking-cup
    • Falcon descriptor: "his chief of treasures"
    • The king killed the falcon because he kept knocking the water out of his hand
    • A dragon polluted the entire stream with poison
    • His falcon saved him twice and he killed him
    • King was very set on this streams water even when other water was available
  •  The Two Travelers
    • Ganem wanted to follow the instructions to the feast but Salem was skeptical
      • Salem: "Perhaps"
    • The two divided
    • Ganem was brought the  gates of a beautiful city
    • The crowds roared when they found Ganem and dressed him in robes
    • A test to find their new "fearless of heart and dauntless of purpose" king
  • Poor man, Rich Man, Young Man
    • The poor man and the flask of oil
      • The rich man was kind enough to give oil to his poor neighbor
      • The neighbor devised a plan and fantasied about the future
      • While fantasizing, he ruined his plan by knocking the oil onto himself
    • The Rich Man and the Bundle of Wood
      • The priest urged him to be less stingy
      • Wood he bought for a little price burned down his home and made him a poor man
    • The Youth, the Hawk, and the Raven
      • Was inspired to be lazy by a Hawk feeding a young raven that fell into the nest
      • Grew weak and wished he took after the Hawk and not the raven
  • The Merchant and His Iron
    • The merchant trusted the friend who later lied to him
    • Said rats ate the Iron -- even though the friend sold it to pay off his own debts
    • The merchant didn't believe the story for one second- kidnapped one of his sons
    • The merchant claimed a sparrow Hawk took his friend's son
  • Gardener, Farmer, Tyrant
    • The gardener and the bear
      • Gardener's joy: flowers and fruit trees
      • On a mission to find a friend
      • Befriended a bear
      • The bear tried to kill a fly but killed the gardener
      • Moral: better to have a wise enemy than a foolish friend
    • The Farmer, the sheep, and the robbers
      • Robbers trying to convince the farmer that the sheep he bought was a dog
      • Farmer fell for it and the robbers took the sheep
    • The Tyrant who became a Just Ruler
      • A bunch of events occurred to everybody that did evil
      • A dog bit a fox --- a man broke the dogs leg-- horse kicked the man and broke his leg-- horse fell into a hole and broke his leg
      • Moral: "'he who doeth evil will sooner or later be overtaken by evil."
  • The King, the Hermit, and the Two Princes
    • King saved money and was prudent
    • Sons were the opposite
    • The Hermit saved the money for the king after he died
    • Second son sought help to learn to live in poverty but the hermit had died
      • Found his father's treasure in a well that he was trying to fix
  • Three Stories about Apes
    • Tried to copy a carpenter and split wood
    • Caught his tail between two pieces of wood
    • The Apes, the Glow-Worm, and the Popinjay
      • Winter made the troop of Apes move down to the valleys from the mountain
      • Mistook a glow worm for a fire and tried to stay worm by it-- Popinjay pointed out why they were silly
      • Apes tore her to pieces
    • The Ape and the Boar
      • Ape decided to start storing food for the winder
      • Boar being chased by a hunter asked to be a guest (Ape was scared of boar at first)
      • The Ape to be a good host fed him all of the figs he had-- the boar was greedy and asked for more
      • Ape still scared kept feeding him-- the more the boar ate the greedier and ruder he got
      • The boar broke his own neck because a branch broke while he was trying to climb a tree to kill the ape for being "stingy"
  • Three Stories about Foxes
    • The fox, the hen, and the drum
      • Was going to catch the hen but heard the drum-- thought it was a bigger prey but turns out it was nothing
      • Fox went home with no supper because of greediness
    • The Fox and the Piece of Meat
      • Already had meat but saw hens and wanted more
      • Jackal warned against it
      • He lost the meat and couldn't get the hens
    • The Hunter, the Fox, and the Leopard
      • Hunter laid a trap-- fox didn't fall for it -- leopard took the meat-- leopard killed the hunter when he came to kill the fox

The Hungry Fox came out of his whole to catch the hens.

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