Once there was a king who had a daughter. One day when the queen was combing her daughter's hair, the mother found a louse."Look, Father,&quo...
There was a king who had one son. When the prince reached a marriageable age, he told his parents, "I want to marry the most beautiful woman in t...
Long ago there was a very rich king who had three sons - three very handsome sons whom he loved very much. The king, however, desired to have this ord...
Long, long ago there lived in the Land of the Khans a poor Alad [a serf or a herdsman in the days of feudalism]. His wife bore three children, but unf...
A little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the Chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of Shih Huang. This emperor w...
Once upon a time a landlord hired a shepherd boy whose name was Aniz. He was very well liked. What people liked most of all was to listen to him playi...
Once upon a time in a certain place there lived three men who all had the same name -- Genjia. One was the tribal chief, the second a carpenter, and t...
There once lived a landlord who loved money as he loved his own life. In his eyes the smallest coin seemed as large as a millstone. He was always on t...
Edward Wellman bade good-bye to his family in the old country headed for a better life in America. Papa handed him the family's savings hidden in ...
It was only a few weeks after my surgery, and I went to Dr. Belt's office for a checkup. It was just after my first chemotherapy（化学疗法） treatment.M...