Item
The Hermit and the Mouse
- Title
- en_US The Hermit and the Mouse
- en_US Series #10:3
- en_US RSF10:3
- Description
- en_US Language note: Bilingual: English/Thai
- Peter
- Creator
- en_US Peter See all items with this value
- Contributor
- en_US Sarawut
- Date
- 2020-01-23T17:39:45Z
- 2018-05
- en_US 2018?
- Date Available
- 2020-01-23T17:39:45Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2018
- Abstract
- en_US The heavy presence of magic seems to me to move this story out of the realm of fable. A hermit saves a mouse by letting him hide in his beard. The mouse later shows up pursued by a cat, and the hermit magically turns the mouse into a cat. Later transformations make the mouse into a dog and a tiger. The fact that the hermit does not fear his tiger angers the tiger, who attacks. The hermit changes him back into a mouse, who is soon carried off by a hawk. The stated moral is "Ungrateful person will always meet bad ending." The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll. As the form of the moral suggests, the text editing breaks down in this pamphlet. The hermit addresses the mouse this way: "Oh a little mouse, I will protect you." The storyteller also skips one step in the story, the transformation of the dog into a tiger. The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover. The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".
- Identifier
- en_US 12091 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng|tha
- Publisher
- en_US Reading Support Foundation: Greenlife Printing
- en_US Bangkok
- Subject
- One story See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection