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Title
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Angel's Moral Stories I
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Description
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First edition
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Compiled and Retold by B.R. Kishore
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Creator
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Kishore, B.R.
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:27:45Z
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2003-08
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2003
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:27:45Z
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Date Issued
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2003
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Abstract
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There are thirty-five numbered fables here in a paperback book measuring 4¾ x 6¾. There is a T of C at the beginning. Each fable gets two or three simple black-and-white illustrations. A number of the stories are new to me, like the first. Bhola's horse is stolen. With the help of the police he apprehends the thief and recovers the horse, but the thief claims that the horse is his. Bhola throws a bag over the horse's head and says The horse is blind in one eye. Which? When the thief guesses Left, Bhola exclaims that the horse is blind in neither eye. He gets his horse back. In The Silver Key (11), a traveller faces a locked inn door late at night and hears from the greedy innkeeper This door can be unlocked only by a silver key. The traveller passes a silver coin through the slot, and the door is opened. He mentions one piece of luggage. When the innkeeper goes out to get it, the traveller closes and locks the door. He then makes the same statement to the innkeeper that the innkeeper had made to him! While almost all the stories are from Aesop, there is also Two Crows and a Snake (44) from K & D. The ant at first welcomes the cricket into his home; only when he learns of his summer singing and dancing does he throw him out (60). In The Money-Lender and His Purse (81), a poor man finds the evil money-lender's purse filled with ten coins. The latter claims that it had eleven in it, and so he reneges on the one-coin reward he had promised. The wise town overseer asks the lender if he is sure that he had eleven pieces in the purse. When he says that he is sure, the overseer wisely answers Then this is not your purse and gives the whole thing to the poor finder. There is a new twist in the old story of the dog who has grown old. His master shows him no pity, so a few weeks later the dog lets thieves into the house and only then runs away (84).
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Identifier
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8176141380 (bk. 2)
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4826 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Angel Publishing House
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New Delhi, India
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Subject
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PZ8.2.K575 2003
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Collection
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole