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Chinese Fables and Folk Stories

Chinese Fables and Folk Stories

Davis, Mary Hayes

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Mythology & Folklore

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ISBN10: 1151406929
ISBN13: 9781151406927
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.16 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ... rich professor who had many pupils. One day he went to the wilderness to cut wood. His mother knew that her boy worked hard, and so she went with him to help and they worked until sunset. Suddenly a small tiger came out of the forest towards the mother, and from fear she became as one dead. Wong-Ziang screamed and made a great noise. He threw his clothes at the beast and it ran away. Then he carried his mother home, and the neighbors who had watched him all his life said, Wong-Ziang will become a Hsao-Tsze if he is always like this. Wong-Ziang had seen twenty-one years when his mother died, and he had never left her for one day in all his life. He was liked by his teachers, schoolmates, and neighbors, for they said, We can learn a great lesson from Wong-Ziang who has loved and honored his mother perfectly. While his mother was living, Wong-Ziang worked for her and spent little time or money in study; but after she died, he studied hard. When his work in the professor's kitchen was done each day, he always sat outside the schoolroom door where he heard the teacher giving lessons to his pupils.1 For seven years he studied in this way before the teacher, Liao-Tsai, knew; but one day he found out what Wong-Ziang had been doing. In time he came to love him as his own son and he asked him, Would you like to be my Chi-tsze (son by adoption)? And Wong-Ziang said, I would, but I am poor and unlearned, and you are rich and honored. It could not be. But his teacher said, I want you in my school. I have had many pupils, but none that have worked and learned as you have. I have known many sons, but none of them served and honored his parents so faithfully. Think about this two or three days and then give me your ans...

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