Once upon a time two peasants attempted to pass each other, and their sledges became entangled.One cried, "Give me room, I must get to town as qu...
There happened a controversy between an oak and a willow, upon the subject of strength, constancy, and patience, and which of the two should have the ...
One day, a little monkey is playing by the well.He looks in the well and shouts: "Oh! My god! The moon has fallen into the well!"An older mo...
Three women die together in an accident and go to heaven. When they get there, St. Peter says, "We only have one rule here in heaven. Don't s...
Daphne was a lovely blooming fairy maiden. As she was playing merrily in the woods one day she saw Apollo the sun-god staring at her with more than am...
On the tenth day after leaving Troy, Odysseus and his men came to an island, where the people only took lotus fruit and flowers as their food. This pl...
There was a big river. In the big river there was a big fish. The big fish was very bad.It wanted to eat a boy or a girl every year. So the people the...
The phoenix was a very colorful and very beautiful bird.The phoenix lived in a desert. There were no trees and flowers, there were no birds and fish e...
Richard Wagner was an undersized little man, with a head too big for his body -- a sickly little man. His nerves were bad. And he had delusions of gra...
A man once saw a ship go down with all its crew, and commented severely on the injustice of the gods. "They care nothing for a man's characte...