The Owl And The Grasshopper The Owl always takes her sleep during the day. Then after sundown, when the rosy light fades from the sky and the shadows rise slowly…
Your Chance Of A Greater Good It was early morning. Mr. Khanna was getting ready for his office when His wife asked him to put just a few clothes out for…
The Three Apples One night, after the adventure above described, the Khaleefeh Hároon Er-Rasheed said to Jaạfar, his Wezeer, We will go down to-night into the city, and…
Grandpa’s Table A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and four-year-old grandson. The old man’s hands trembled, his eyesight was blurred, and his…
The Bittern And The Hoopoe “Where do you like best to feed your flocks?” said a man to an old cow-herd. “Here, sir, where the grass is neither too rich…
The Fairies’ Clock It was little Paddy O’Brien who first discovered the fairies’ dandelion secret, but many people didn’t believe the story he told. He was 8 years…
The Beam There was once an enchanter who was standing in the midst of a great crowd of people performing his wonders. He had a cock brought…
Aladdin Or The Wonderful Lamp In one of the large and rich cities of China there once lived a tailor named Mustapha. He was very poor. He could hardly, by…
Melusine’s Secret Once upon a time, a Count and his eldest son, Raymond, and a hunting party traveled into the forest to hunt for boar. The men…
The Gnat And The Bull 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…
The Aged Mother In a large town there was an old woman who sat in the evening alone in her room thinking how she had lost first her…
Evening Dinner With A Father A son took his old father to a restaurant for an evening dinner. Father being very old and weak while eating dropped food on his…