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This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is first in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story is the age-old story of getting the threatening perpetrator to put himself back into the original position.  In this version the mousedeer passing by helps the man victim who had saved the trapped crocodile, only to find himself attacked by it.  In the second story, a wild cat fools a hospitable bear twice, eating his own chicken at night and then claiming it was lost.  The kind black bear reimburses the wild cat twice with one of his own chickens.  The third time the bear is smart, catches the wild cat in the act, and, in the morning throws him out, knocking him out.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is second in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story is rather complex.  In the end, it has a donkey outwitting lion and fox, pitting the former successfully against the latter.  The presumption of the story is that the donkey took the lion as his slave but could not admit weakness in his presence.  The second story tells of a tiger who comes upon two sleeping humans, a father with his son's head covered on his chest.  The silly tiger thinks that this is an eight-limbed creature.  A crocodile puts him straight and sends him back to bring one of the humans for him and one for the tiger.  As the tiger approaches, he causes the man to sneeze.  He bolts in fear back to the crocodile, who waits with open mouth for the supposed gift from the tiger.  The crocodile swallows the tiger whole.  "Human flesh is really delicious but rather furry."  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is third in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story has the baboon telling the malicious crocodile that he left his liver back on the tree.  The crocodile's enmity started when the baboon was throwing all the sour fruit into the water because he was eating all the sweet fruit in the tree.  The second story is LM.  It is curious to find here an Aesopic fable ascribed to Japan as its country of origin!  In this version, the lion is in a net in a deep pit.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is fourth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  In the first story, a hunter finds a young deer and takes him on as a pet.  Even the hunter's two dogs become friendly with the deer.  After a few years, the deer ventures out into the world.  In a village he encounters dogs and presumes that they will be as friendly as his mates at home.  They devour him.  In the second story, two wolves encounter a lion.  Afraid of being devoured themselves, they ask him to solve a dispute over three chickens of theirs.  He agrees, hoping to eat the chickens. The gray wolf enters their lair, supposedly to get the chickens out, but does not emerge.  The brown wolf then asks the lion's permission to go in and get the gray wolf out.  The lion permits it, and soon the two wolves are secure in their lair telling the lion to chase himself away.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is fifth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  In the first story, the storyteller and artist wisely have the mother admonishing the son in front of humans.  "Don't bring shame to your mother."  She soon "felt ashamed and took her child away."  "Why do I always try to correct my child's mistakes while I, myself, do the same mistakes?"  From that day forward, she does not criticize the way her child walks.  The second is the typical story of the war between the birds and the beasts.  "Only the bats did not join in the war."  In this version, the bats never do join the war, claiming to the birds that they are not birds and to the fox that they are not land animals.  In this version, there is a winner: the land animals.  But suddenly the king lion is killed, and the ensuing land-animal stampede kills many of the bats.  The birds win!  King eagle then wants to destroy all who have no honor.  Bats are now ashamed to come out in daylight.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is sixth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  In the first story, leaders of two warring groups decide to have the outcome decided by a buffalo fight.  Sumaterans decide to have one hungry young buffalo do their fighting.  He defeats one (or all?) of the Majapahits buffaloes.  Now the Sumaterans shape the roofs of their buildings and their women's headgear after the buffalo's horn.  The second story is something of a pourquoi story.  Two dogs fail to protect a man's house and decide to go elsewhere.  A pet cat informs on them and they are beaten.  "That is why, till today, dogs and cats are still enemies."  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is seventh in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story is the Panchatantra story about regulated sacrifice and luring the king of the jungle to his death.  Here a mousedeer is the messenger, and the tiger is the king.  He drowns in a river, attacking his supposed usurping enemy.  It is of course his own reflection in the water.  The second is a familiar story of the ailing lion king wondering where the fox is.  The wolf, the fox's enemy, takes the occasion to tell the lion that the fox disrespects him. The fox learns of the wolf's maneuvering, hastens to the king, and explains that he has been on a search for the cure for the king's wound.  The cure is the warm skin of a wolf.  The procedure kills the wolf.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is eighth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story is that of the eagle who prevents the king, his master, from drinking water that would poison him.  The angry king strangles the eagle and, upon learning that the water was infected with a dead poisonous snake, regrets his rash deed.  The second story uses the familiar trope "How did you get so wise?"  A lion, wolf, and fox catch a donkey, rabbit, and goat.  The lion asks the wolf how to divide them, and the wolf assigns one animal victim to each hunter.  The lion beheads the wolf and asks the fox how to divide the spoils.  "Donkey for your breakfast, rabbit for your lunch, goat for your dinner."  Who taught you this perfect way of dividing up the spoils?  "The moment I saw you separating the wolf's head from his body, I became smart."  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is ninth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  The first story is new to me.  Mother crocodile commits her six young children to the wolf to be educated.  The wolf finds a way to eat one each day.  As mother visits each day, he shows at least one crocodile twice, to satisfy her that all six are doing well.  When he has eaten all six, he vanishes, and mother crocodile weeps to find no one there on her last visit.  In the second story, monkey asks buffalo to get him across the water, since there are bananas on the other side.  Buffalo obliges and eats grass on the other side.  Monkey starts to sing, and his song alerts a farmer, who hurts the buffalo with a stone.  Buffalo is angry with monkey for attracting the farmer, and monkey apologizes.  On the way home, buffalo does what he wants, wallowing in the water and almost drowning the monkey.  Turn-about is fair play.  In this case, monkey promises never to get into trouble someone who is helping him.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is tenth in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  In the first story, swans allow a plant to climb the tree in which they nest.  Soon a man, noticing swan feathers at its base, uses the vine from the plant to climb the tree and sets a net that captures all the swans.  Their wise leader recommends that, when the hunter comes the next day, they should all play dead.  He throws them one by one to the ground.  When the last one is thrown, they all fly off together.  The second story is a variation of one told earlier.  In this version, a mousedeer tells the lion king that his brother has asked all the animals not to pay respect to the lion king anymore.  The angry lion king asks to be taken to his "brother."  He is brought in this version, not to water, but to a hole.  The lion roars and jumps in.  All the animals thank the mousedeer and live happily ever after.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.

This 24-page two-staple pamphlet is eleventh in the collection of 20 listed on the back cover.  7½" x 6¾".  In the first story, a foolish young rabbit is not attacked on first and second encounter, because he was too far away in the first and because the tiger was not hungry in the second.  The rabbit foolishly presumes that he can befriend the tiger and approaches him.  The tiger jumps up and eats him.  The blue wolf story comes straight from the Panchatantra, where the animal involved is a jackal.  "I was sent here by God.  I came from Heaven.  Therefore, you must all obey me.  If not, I will punish you."  Rain, not howling, reveals this imposter.  The wolf dies for his treachery.  Partial-page and full-page illustrations alternate.