Qian Meixi recorded the story of Xue Qingguan, the goat butcher. He ran his own little store selling mutton and mutton soup. The fame of his delicious...
During the 1850's, there was a lot of unrest in Taiwan, so the Emperor sent Xu Shuyan with soldiers to calm everything down. Tang Yian was sent al...
Once upon a time, the son of Brahmadatta was ruling righteously（正直地，公正地） in Benares, in northern India. It came to pass（实现，发生） that the King of Kosala...
There was a handful of clay in the bank of a river. It was only common clay, coarse（粗糙的，下等的） and heavy; but it had high thoughts of its own value, and...
Mildred orme（榆木） , seated in the snuggest corner of the big front porch of the Kraummer farmhouse, was as content as a girl need hope to be.This was n...
A country maid was walking along with a can of milk upon her head, when she fell into the following train of reflections."The money for which I s...
People appear to born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably（冷酷地，无情地） that it is easy to imagine an internal ...
Have you not heard of the frog that lived in a shallow well? It said to a turtle（海龟） that lived in the East Sea, "I am so happy! When I go out, I...
Sam, an unemployed piano tuner, said it was only the second thing he had ever won in his life. The first thing was an Afghan blanket at a church raffl...
An American Indian tells about a brave who found an eagle's egg and put it into the nest of a prairie chicken草原鸡. The eaglet小鹰 hatched with the br...