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Title
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Folk Tales from the Far East
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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By Charles H. Meeker
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Creator
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Meeker, Charles H.
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Contributor
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Richardson, Frederick
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:28:52Z
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1997-06
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1927
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:28:52Z
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Date Issued
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1927
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Abstract
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My, I have waited seven years to catalogue this book! There are thirty-four stories, with twelve full-page illustrations (including a colored frontispiece) by Richardson, listed just after the opening T of C. There is also a printer's design, sometimes repeated from elsewhere in the book. at the start of each story. I have sampled the stories here and find that several of them are short, pointed, and unmagical enough to be fables. Many of them feature Mr. Monk, the wise monkey. For example, a cat with six kittens wanting to travel over the mountain asks the monkey how long it will take (9). He gives three estimates, the longest of them if the cat family goes the fastest. The mother dismisses his view and moves fast. She leaves her kittens behind without knowing it and has to go back and get them and then care for them in their exhaustion. Going slowest would have got them there the fastest! Again, the monkey wants to buy the terrapin's bananas and finally agrees to pay for one banana by teaching him to climb a tree (40). Once he has the terrapin at the top of the tree, he leaves him there, climbs down, takes all the bananas, and says he never promised to teach him how to climb down!
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Identifier
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5090 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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The John C. Winston Company
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Chicago, IL
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Subject
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PZ8.1.M471 Fk 1927
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole