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Title
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3 Povesti: Ursul pacalit de vulpe; Prostia omeneasca; Musca la arat
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Description
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Language note: Romanian
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Ion Creanga, Alecu Donici
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Creator
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Creanga, Ion
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Contributor
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Nedelcu, Catalin
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Date
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2020-01-23T17:39:18Z
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2019-10
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2008
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Date Available
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2020-01-23T17:39:18Z
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Date Issued
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2008
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Abstract
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There are three stories here. The first is "The Fox and the Bear" by Ion Creanga. The fox first tricks a fisherman into throwing him – supposedly dead on the road – into his cart full of fish. The fox then employs the old trick of throwing the fish out of the car and onto the road, so that he can collect them later. When the bear asks the fox where he got all the fish, the fox sends him on the fishing "fool's errand" of putting his tail into the water. That suggestion prompts the strongest illustration of the booklet, at its very center. The bear, after losing his tail, takes after the fox with a club. The second story is "Prostia Omeneasca" or "Human Stupidity." A husband comes home to find his wife and mother-in-law wailing in fear that somehow the cat and the salt block will kill their child. He gets angry and leaves saying he will come back only if he finds someone stupider than these two. He does! In several instances, he finds people trying to carry sunshine into a dark house, pick up nuts with a pitchfork, or hoist a cow to the upper part of a barn to eat the hay that is up there. So he goes back home understanding that his wife and mother-in-law are smatter than these folks. The third story is "Musca la arat" or "The Ox and the Fly" by Alecu Donici. I am perusing several versions on line. I do not believe that it is an Aesopic fable. Might it be that the fly, whose world is small, has no idea what the ox has been about all day?" The illustrations, like the booklet, are big and colorful.
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Identifier
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11852 (Access ID)
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Language
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rum
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Publisher
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Teopiticot
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Bucharest, Romania
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Subject
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Ion Creanga, Alecu Donici