The sun and the wind challenged each other to see which of the two was so powerful as to make the first passer-by take off his clothes.First, the wind took its turn and blew with all its might. The more it blew, the more the traveller held his clothes tightly around his body to save […]
Chapter 8 No sooner we got from our dwelling about two miles than we saw a crowd running and shouting behind us. The crowd consisted of about fifty of my poorest parishioners. They soon seized upon the two offices of justice. But I interfered and managed to save the officers. Soon my entire family was
Chapter 7 The next morning the sun rose with peculiar warmth for the season; so that we agreed to breakfast together on the honeysuckle bank: where, while we sate, my youngest daughter, at my request, joined her voice to the concert on the trees about us. It was in this place my poor Olivia first
Chapter 6 The next morning I took my daughter behind me, and set out on my return home. As we travelled along, I strove, by every persuasion, to calm her sorrows and fears, and to arm her with resolution to bear the presence of her offended mother. I took every opportunity, from the prospect of
Chapter 5 My son’s account was too long to be delivered at once, the first part of it was begun that night, and he was concluding the rest after dinner the next day, when the appearance of Mr Thornhill’s equipage at the door seemed to make a pause in the general satisfaction. The butler, who
Chapter 4 Everything was going smoothly for the family of Wakefield. But one fine morning, I found to my amazement that my daughter was missing.Though the child could not describe the gentleman’s person who handed his sister into the post-chaise, yet my suspicions fell entirely upon our young landlord, whose character for such intrigues was
Chapter 3 Two ladies of great distinction introduced. Superior finery ever seems to confer superior breeding Mr Burchell had scarce taken leave, and Sophia consented to dance with the chaplain, when my little ones came running out to tell us that the ‘Squire was come, with a crowd of company. Upon our return, we found
Chapter 2 The only hope of our family now was, that the report of our misfortunes might be malicious or premature: but a letter from my agent in town soon came with a confirmation of every particular. The loss of fortune to myself alone would have been trifling; the only uneasiness I felt was for
Chapter 1 As we lived near the road, we often had the traveller or stranger visit us to taste our gooseberry vine, for which we had great reputation; and I profess with the veracity of an historian, that I never knew one of them find fault with it. Our cousins too, even to the fortieth
Parvez and Ahmad, the two friends, were once walking through a forest, when suddenly they came face to face with a big black bear. They tried to flee but the bear chased them. Parvez managed to climb up a nearby tree, but Ahmad flung himself onto the ground and lay still pretending to be dead.
Once, Sheikhchilli’s mother was sick with fever. And she was worried about her idiot son and about putting him to some useful work. None was ready to employ him. She was making both ends meet by selling wood, cutting grass and selling it. So, she said to her son, “Sheikhchilli! I am running high fever.
The Greek legend goes that at the time of the creation of man, the Greek god Zeus, the king of the gods according to Greek mythology, wanted to give each man a gift of two bags. The one full of man’s own faults and the second full of others’ faults. But when the actual moment
Once there was a water snake who lived in a pond, which it claimed to be its own. Not far from the pond there lived another snake, a viper, who often went to drink at the pond and said the pond belonged to it only. The water snake challenged the viper and the two snakes
A lion once wandered out of the forest and saw the beautiful daughter of a farmer working in her field. It fell in love with her at the very first sight. One day, the lion approached the girl’s father and asked for her hand in marriage. The farmer was surprised to see a lion approaching
Chapter 10 March winds had come and gone; April’s showers were over; May’s buds had opened into flower; and the June sun was shining on the pleasant fields, when John Dolittle at last got back to his own country.But he did not yet go home to Puddleby. First he went traveling through the land with