Crocodile and Monkey
- Crocodile mother asked her so to go get a monkey for her to heat the monkey's heart
- Crocodile decided he would try and fool the monkey by offering to take him across the river to the island where the fruit is ripe
- Crocodile starts trying to drown the monkey to take its heart to the crocodile's mother to eat
- Monkey says that he left his heart back at the tree
- Monkey was let off at the river bank and he rushed up the tree
- Monkey said that his heart was up there and if the crocodile wanted it he would have to come and get it
- Monkey moved to a different place and the crocodile found him again
- Monkey knew that the crocodile was acting as if he was a rock to fool the monkey
- Monkey calls out to the rock and says why don't you answer me like normal
- The crocodile replies as if he is the rock and the monkey replies that he knows that is crocodile
- Monkey says he will jump in the crocs mouth and the crocodile closes his eyes. Monkey jumps off the crocodiles back and launches himself up the tree.
- Crocodile finally agrees to give up on catching the monkey.
How the turtle saved his own life
- King makes lake for his sons to play in
- Sons want to go fish, but are scared of the turtle
- King asks the men who made the brought the turtle to kill it
- The plan was made by a man who hates water to throw the turtle down stream in the river
- The turtle acted like he was scared of this idea
- The king had the men throw him in the river exactly as the turtle really wanted
The Merchant of Seri
- merchant sold brass and tinware
- merchant gets to house of poor old woman and her granddaughter
- old woman only had a gold bowl which she did not know was gold
- granddaughter asks her grandma to buy her something from the merchant
- first merchant sees the bowl and says it is worthless and leave
- second merchant arrives and old woman offers bowl again
- second merchant says he does not have enough money to buy it
- old woman is confused
- second merchant gives all his money except for 8 pennies in exchange for the bowl
- he used the 8 pennies to get across the river
- first merchant returns to try and low ball the old woman again for the bowl and finds out the bowl was sold
The Turtle who could not stop talking
- Turtle befriends geese who want the turtle to visit their home
- Geese offer to take the turtle if he can keep his mouth shut about going
- Kids saw the geese carrying the turtle as he kept his mouth closed on a stick so that he would be carried
- The turtle asked the children what business it was to judge him and the turtle fell to his death because he opened his mouth and let go of the stick
The Ox who won the forfeit
- Man makes bet of a thousand of pieces of silver on his ox
- Second man's ox would not even move and he lost his thousand pieces of silver
- Ox says that if they try again he will try for the second man as he has been a good master
- The ox pulled the cart winning the bet and the second man with his ox went home happy with their winnings
The quarrel of the quails
- wise quail was the leader of those living in the forest
- Man uses a quail call the lure the quails in and captures them
- wise quail comes up with a plan for the next time the man tries this scheme
- the quails enact the plan and fly the man's net off and drop it into the thorn bush
- quails started arguing and the man takes advantage of the situation and captures them and sells them for a nice price
The Measure of rice
- King had a dishonest man in his court who was the valuer
- King fires this valuer and hires a peasant to do the job
- peasant did not know values really, but everyone had to pay the price for items that he set
- man brings in 500 horses and valuer says they were worth a measure of rice.
- valuer tries to explain that the value of rice is the same as the value of the city
- the king ashamed kicks out the valuer
- the valuer fled the scene as he explains that he was only trying to get a good deal on the horses for the king
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