In the notes below you will find my reading notes from part B of The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse.
Spend a Pound to Win A Penny
A monkey was sitting up in a tree and waiting for a pot of peas to be cooked inside of a house. The peas finished cooking and the people went away so the monkey got a hand full of peas. The monkey dropped one pea and became distressed so he went looking for the one pea. While he was looking the other people came back and started pelting the monkey with rocks and the monkey dropped all the rest of the peas he was carrying.
Union is Strength
A hunter would hunt for quails by sounding a call that sounded just like quails. He would throw the net over the birds and then take them home for supper the next day. One smart quail told the others to poke their heads through the net and then begin flapping their wings. So all of the quails could get out of the net. So the quails were able to get away. One day more quails got trapped but the quails were fighting with each other so the plan didn't work out and teamwork didn't play out. All of the quails got trapped and was taken to the hunter's house for dinner.
The Lion and the Boar
One day a lion was drinking at a lake and he was very full because he had just eaten an elephant's leg. On the other side of the lake he saw a boar and the boar looked tasty but he was so full. The lion approached the boar anyways and tried to be sly about it but the boar saw him and puffed his chest up. The boar challenged the lion to a fight. The lion told the boar that he was too tired and wanted to push off the flight to another day. So they did so. The boar went and told all of his friends that he scared off a lion from a fight. The boar rolled and rolled in dirt and mud every day until he stunk so bad. So when the fight happened the lion wouldn't dare to touch him. That is how the boar won the fight.
Bibliography:
The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse
Illustration by W. Robinson
A monkey was sitting up in a tree and waiting for a pot of peas to be cooked inside of a house. The peas finished cooking and the people went away so the monkey got a hand full of peas. The monkey dropped one pea and became distressed so he went looking for the one pea. While he was looking the other people came back and started pelting the monkey with rocks and the monkey dropped all the rest of the peas he was carrying.
Union is Strength
A hunter would hunt for quails by sounding a call that sounded just like quails. He would throw the net over the birds and then take them home for supper the next day. One smart quail told the others to poke their heads through the net and then begin flapping their wings. So all of the quails could get out of the net. So the quails were able to get away. One day more quails got trapped but the quails were fighting with each other so the plan didn't work out and teamwork didn't play out. All of the quails got trapped and was taken to the hunter's house for dinner.
The Lion and the Boar
One day a lion was drinking at a lake and he was very full because he had just eaten an elephant's leg. On the other side of the lake he saw a boar and the boar looked tasty but he was so full. The lion approached the boar anyways and tried to be sly about it but the boar saw him and puffed his chest up. The boar challenged the lion to a fight. The lion told the boar that he was too tired and wanted to push off the flight to another day. So they did so. The boar went and told all of his friends that he scared off a lion from a fight. The boar rolled and rolled in dirt and mud every day until he stunk so bad. So when the fight happened the lion wouldn't dare to touch him. That is how the boar won the fight.
(Illustration from the Lion and the Boar)
Bibliography:
The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse
Illustration by W. Robinson
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