Very early one winter morning，during a hard frost， a fox was drinking at an ice－hole， not far from the haunts of men．Meanwhile，whether by pure accident or from negligence doesn's much matter，the end of its tail got wet，and froze to th...
A stag and a hedgehog once bought a field of wheat together，hoping to grow enough food to keep them through the Winter．All went well until the wheat began to turn golden in the Summer sun．Then，one day，they noticed that wild animals had brok...
Yang Zhu，a famous philosopher，had a younger brother named Yang Bu，who went out dressed in white one day．It began to rain so Yang Bu took off his white clothes and returned home dressed in black．His dog，failing to recognize him，rushed fo...
A boy playing in the fields got stung by a nettle．He ran home to his mother，telling her that he had but touched that nasty weed，and it had stung him．It is just your touching it，my boy，said his mother，that caused it to sting you；the ne...
An old lion lay ill in his den．All the animals came to visit him，but none of them could do anything for him and every day he grew weaker and weaker．Have you noticed，my lord lion，said the wolf one day，that the fox has not come to see you？...
Xue Tan took singing lessons from Qin Qing，a famous singer inthe state of Qin．Before learning all that Qing had to teach him，Xue claimed that he had mastered all of Qing's skills and asked to leave．Qing did not try to stop him but gave a fare...
Two friends were travelling together when they met with a bear．One of them was in great fear，and without a thought of his companion climbed up into a tree，and hid himself．The other seeing that he had no chance，single－handed against the be...
A hungry lion sat watching a fat bull feeding in a fieldIf only bulls didn't have horns，thought the lion greedily．then I could soon finish him off．As it is he could toss me over the moon． Then he had an idea．Sidling up to the bull he said i...
When Confucius was travelling eastwards，he came upon two children hot in an argument，so he asked them to tell him what it was all about．I think，said one child，that the sun is nearer to us at daybreak and farther away from us at noon． The...
A troop of boys were playing at the edge of a pond，when，perceiving a number of frogs in the water，they began to pelt at them with stones They had already hilled many of the poor creatures，when a frog that is more hardy than the rest putting h...
A lean，hungry wolf met with a plump，well－fed house dog on amoonshiny night．How is it that you look so sleek？asked the wolf．Your food obviously agrees with you，while I can hardly keep myself from starving however hard I try． Well，if...
A legendary giant Kua Fu，overrating his own abilities，wanted to catch up with the sun．He followed the sun to its setting place at a valley far away and became very thirsty．Badly needing a drink of water，he went to the Yellow River and the R...
A countryman returning home one Winter's day，found a snake by the hedge－side，half dead with cold．Taking compassion on the creature，he laid it in his chest and brought it home to his fire－side to revive it．No sooner had the warmth restor...
Some bees once built a fine honeycomb in a hollow tree-trunk．Now there are two kinds of bees in a hive：worker bees，who gather pollen and make honey all their lives，and drones，who lie lazily in the hive all day long doing nothing．It happen...
Taihang and Wangwu are two mountains covering an area of seven hundred square li and rising up to a great height of thousands of meters．They were originally situated south of Jizhou and north of Heyang．North of the mountains lived an old man call...
