Jungle Doctor's Fables

Title

en_US Jungle Doctor's Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US Paul White

Creator

en_US White, Paul See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Wade, Graham

Date

2016-01-25T16:07:05Z

en_US 1992-05

en_US 1966

Date Available

2016-01-25T16:07:05Z

Date Issued

en_US 1955

Abstract

en_US Clever stories heavy-handedly moralized for Christian teaching. For example, a great wall (sin) suddenly appears in the jungle and separates animals from their best feeding territory. A silly monkey chases a coconut into quicksand. Another feeds vultures (bad thoughts) but tells them to go away; of course more vultures return the next day. Yet another chops off a branch while he is perched on it! Two of the cleverest stories are II and III. In the former, a hunter makes a small opening in the top of an oil can and fills the can with rocks and a few peanuts on top of them. His monkey victim will not let go once he gets his fist around a few of the peanuts, and the heavy can becomes his trap. He is clubbed and bagged. In III, a snake has been slithering into the coop through a small hole in the wall to swallow an egg and then break it inside himself as he slithers back out. The clever owner replaces a fresh egg with a hard-boiled one, and the snake is trapped when he reaches the opening. The snake is killed.

Identifier

en_US 1670 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/77239

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Paternoster Press

en_US Exeter, Devon

Subject

en_US PZ10.3.W5856 Ju 1955 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole