Thursday, October 24, 2019

Week 11 More Jataka Reading Part B

Source: More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt

How the Monkey Saved His Troops

- Monkeys gather mangoes from underneath a tree
- A King discovers the mango
- The King collects all the monkeys mangos
- The monkeys grab mangos from the branches which upsets the King, so he requests the monkeys be shot down
- The chief monkeys lets the other monkeys climb over his back to escape
- The King sees what the chief monkey did and promises he will take care of him

The Hawks and Their Friends

- Hawks live on an island. Lions live on the north side,, a Kingfisher on the east and a turtle on the south.
- The mother suggests they make friends with all the other
- Hunters are in the forest and they see the hawks
- The hawks go to the Kingfisher for help and he comes
- The Kingfisher gets tired so the mother tells the father to get help from the turtle
- He comes to help
- The hunters start to hunt the turtle instead
- The turtle has to run to avoid being eaten so the hawks go to the lion
- The hunters go running and the friends all live

The Brave Little Bowman

- The bowman has a crooked back
- He goes looking for a big man so he can go into battle
- They join the kings army
- The King sends them to hunt down a tiger
- The bowman gets him
- They kill a buffalo too
- The King goes to battle
- The big man got too scared and ran away
- The Little Bowman continued to fight and made him the chief of the army

The Foolhardy Wolf

- A lion kills a buffalo
- A hungry wolf offers to be the lions servant and the lion accepts
- The wolf tells the lion if there's animals he can hunt or not
- The wolf is feed well and grows in size
- He tells the lion to trade places with him and tell him when he sees an elephant
- The lion agrees
- The wolf fails and is killed by the elephant instead

The Stolen Plow

- Two traders are from a small town and a large town
- The small town trader leaves a plow with the large town one and he sells it and lies about selling it
- The village trader leaves the towns trader with a friend
- the village trader lies about his whereabouts and they both go to court
- the court orders the town trader to give back the plow to the village trader and then he can get his son back

The Lion in Bad Company

- A young lion lets a wolf live with him against the warnings he knows too well
- The lion's dad doesn't like the arrangement
- the wolf wants to eat a pony and convinces the lion to do it
- He becomes addicted to eating the King's ponies
- the lion goes to the stables to eat the ponies and ends up getting shot. The wolf abandons him

The Wise Goat and the Wolf

-There's one goat the wolves can't catch
- A wolf and his mate devise a trick to get her
- The goat is hesitant but eventually comes to help
- The mate messes up and the goat sees this
- They try another trick but the goat decides to trick them instead
- She asks to bring hounds with her and she never hears from the wolves again

Prince Wicked and the Grateful

- Prince Wicked is awful and everyone is worried what will happen when he's King
- The servants pretend they didn't abandon him
- The King searches for him
- Prince Wicked finds a log along with a snake and a rat
- A poor old man goes to save him
- The poor old man helps the animals first
- The prince hates him for that
- The animals offer him goods when they leave
- The prince offers him riches when he's King, and soon after his father dies
- The old man goes to see if the 4 will keep their promises, the animals do but he doesn't take it. The prince tries to kill him
- The people hear the story and get scared, so they kill the king and let the poor man be king
- He treats the animals well after that and they live happily ever after

Beauty and the Brownie

-  There's two sibling deer named Beauty and Brownie
- Their parents advise they go away while corn is being ripened because it's dangerous
- Beauty takes his herd away from the village and travels by night as advised and his herd makes it
- Brownie ends up taking his herd the wrong way twice and many die

The Elephant and the Dog

- There's an elephant and a dog who are good friends. They eventually are allowed to live together. Then the dog gets sold and the elephant becomes very very sad. To make the elephant feel better, the King brings the dog back and they all live happily ever after

Lion and the Wolf from Source
http://www.gatewaytotheclassics.com/browse/display.php?author=babbitt&book=morejataka&story=lion

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