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The Tortoise, the Scorpion, and the Hare There once was a scorpion and tortoise that were a close as could be. As odd as this friendship looked, for some reason it worked. The scorpion was small but mighty and the tortoise was large yet gentle. The best friends did everything together. They went drinking together at the village watering hole, they gossiped about other animals together, even took long day trips together to the next town to shake up their normal routine. The day trips were the tortoise's favorite thing to do. He would place the scorpion on his back to make sure he never got tired with his small legs. They would play your typical road trip games like I-Spy but no one ever really won or lost for that matter since everything was grey. On one of the trips, the tortoise and scorpion ran into an old hare they knew. The tortoise and the hare were notorious for not seeing eye to eye. They were always getting into arguments about conflicting views like whethe...

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 Hare, the fox, and the Wolf Hare convinces wolf not to eat it but to eat the fox Fox had secret door-- tricked hare and wolf -- wolf ate hare Three Stories about Snakes The Sparrows and the Snake Snake stole the sparrows' home and then the nest was destroyed and the snake died The Frog, the Crab, and the Serpent The Blind man and the snake Blind man mistook the snake for a whip Wouldn't believe friend when he said it was a snake-- accused of jealousy Blind man gripped it even harder and the snake killed him The two Tortoise stories The Tortoise and the Geese Begs the Geese to take him -- he must be silent on the journey He kept his mouth shut on a stick and the two geese flew him All the humans kept laughing at seeing that He opened his mouth to call them stupid-- he died ...

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 fin...