Creighton University

This story is new to me.  A millionaire has a horse and hires a groom, but the groom drinks and staggers.  The horse follows the groom's lead.  The artist has fun showing us a drunken horse!  The horse even throws the millionaire.  The groom is fired and replaced.  Now the horse imitates a more responsible groom and even wins prizes.  All three end up happy: millionaire, horse, and new groom.  The stated moral is "The social environment has an effect on our action."  The English editing of this story suffers from start to finish.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This traditional story is usually told with a giant hunk of wood tied around the fierce dog's neck to warn others.  Here his owner uses a cage, pole, chain, and collar.  As in the fable, the miscreant takes this special care as a sign of admiration, not as a punishment.  There is a final stage in this version not, I believe, regularly in the traditional story: the other dogs laugh at this dog's misperception.  The stated moral is "Roguery always leads to doom."  The English editing of this story suffers from start to finish, particularly with confusion between "a" and "the" in narrating a story.  The miscreant dog gets off this statement: "Both of collar and cage are the rewards from my boss.  You are jealous me."  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This is a delightful retelling of a classic fable usually told of a bear and a solitary gardener.  In this version, the gardener is a sculptor and the bear is a monkey whom the sculptor has raised.  They are deeply devoted to each other.  The situation here is then as in the traditional fable.  A nap in the woods leaves the monkey as the man's protector.  He uses a large piece of wood to kill the fly on the man's nose, but he also kills his master.  The best image here may be that repeated on the title-page: the monkey whacks his master right in the face.  The stated moral is "We have to think cautiously and deeply on what would we do."  The English is sometimes difficult in this story, as in its final line. "It calls a woodcraftsman to get a laurel but he is unconscious caused of he is died together with a fly."  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This is a delightful retelling of a classic fable.  A man sees a rabbit run into a tree and knock himself out.  Happy to have been given an easy meal, the man waits at the tree for the next rabbit to come and knock himself out.  In this telling, the man is a lazy son sent to work a garden by his parents.  On the way, he witnesses the rabbit accident and then spends all his days at the tree waiting for more repetitions.  The father comes to check and is angry and assigns his lazy son double work.  The best image here may be that repeated on the cover: the rabbit knocks himself out by speeding into the tree.  The stated moral is "Nothing in this world that can easy to get without doing anything."  The English is sometimes difficult in this story, as is clear in its title and moral.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This is a traditional fable raising questions about advertising.  A weapons dealer proclaiming the quality of his goods offers both a sword that can pierce anything and a shield that will stop any weapon.  Children in the town ask him what will happen if his sword strikes his shield.  People laugh, and he leaves town without any sale.  The stated moral is "We should speak the truth, unless, it will be harm ourselves."  One might wonder about this moral.  The English is sometimes difficult in this story, as is clear in its title and moral.  Might that title be better if it were "An Internal Contradiction"?  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This traditional fable is usually told of a father who has raised two daughters.  One daughter marries a farmer and the other a potter.  Here two grandparents have a farmer son and a potter daughter and they visit them.  The traditional fable usually ends with the conundrum: "What should I pray for, sunshine or rain?"  In this present version, the grandmother addresses her husband's conundrum.  On a sunny day, think of the potter.  On a rainy day, think of the farmer.  He answers "It is true, you are so smart."  The stated moral is "To be an optimist, neither happiness or sorrow, it is on our heart."  This can be a difficult moral to decipher.  The English is sometimes difficult in this story, as when the daughter in the story is called a pottery.  The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".