Folk Tales from the Far East

Title

en_US Folk Tales from the Far East

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Charles H. Meeker

Creator

en_US Meeker, Charles H.

Contributor

en_US Richardson, Frederick

Date

2016-01-25T19:28:52Z

en_US 1997-06

en_US 1927

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:28:52Z

Date Issued

en_US 1927

Abstract

en_US 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!

Identifier

en_US 5090 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80678

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US The John C. Winston Company

en_US Chicago, IL

Subject

en_US PZ8.1.M471 Fk 1927

en_US Title Page Scanned

Type

en_US Book, Whole