Creighton University

This is the traditional fable of frightened hares being surprised that they frighten frogs.  In this version, there is no mention of suicide, only of fright-induced flight.  The stated moral is "There is always someone else who is worse off than we."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  The artist depicts the hares throughout as wearing capes with hoods, through which their long ears dart.  The text editing is unusually well done in this pamphlet.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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 fable is told in keeping with the tradition.  The two fierce animals arrive at the same time at a pond.  They start to fight over who can drink first until they are both exhausted.  When they notice a vulture watching them, they compromise, and the lion lets the water-buffalo drink first.  The stated moral is "Compromise can avoid danger."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  The artist depicts the hares throughout as wearing capes with hoods, through which their long ears dart.  The text editing is unusually well done in this pamphlet.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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".

The heavy presence of magic seems to me to move this story out of the realm of fable.  A hermit saves a mouse by letting him hide in his beard.  The mouse later shows up pursued by a cat, and the hermit magically turns the mouse into a cat.  Later transformations make the mouse into a dog and a tiger.  The fact that the hermit does not fear his tiger angers the tiger, who attacks.  The hermit changes him back into a mouse, who is soon carried off by a hawk.  The stated moral is "Ungrateful person will always meet bad ending."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  As the form of the moral suggests, the text editing breaks down in this pamphlet.  The hermit addresses the mouse this way: "Oh a little mouse, I will protect you."  The storyteller also skips one step in the story, the transformation of the dog into a tiger.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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 fable is told faithfully to the tradition.  The lonely vulture takes the eager puffin as her mate when he promises to bring her a big dog.  What he actually brings the next day is a little mouse.  She complains, and he responds that he would have said anything to get her to marry him.  The stated moral is "Sweet words from the mischievousis not trustworthy."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  As the form of the moral suggests, the text editing breaks down in this pamphlet.  The puffin's key line is stated this way: "Well, I can promised you anything just to make you marry me."  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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 fable is told faithfully to the tradition of Perry #1.  The beginning text wisely identifies the two mothers as neighbors, not friends.  The only change is that the fox with her cubs lives in a cave nearby, not in the hollow at the base of the tree.  The stated moral is "The insincere will get no sincerity in return."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  Perhaps the best image in the pamphlet is of the angry fox brandishing a torch.  The text editor has trouble with singular and plural here and allows a fragment: "The eagle thinking that she lived higher, so the fox could not do her any harm."  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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 fable is told faithfully to the tradition: the donkey divides the hare meat into three equal piles and invites the lion to choose first.  When the angry lion kills the donkey, the fox divides differently.  Unfortunately not present in this version is the great interchange between lion and fox: "Who taught you to divide so well?"  "The donkey."  The stated moral is "Wise men learn from the other's misfortune."  The moral page has a standard setting throughout this Series #10: a child reads a book in an arch-defined opening before the background of a scroll.  Perhaps the best image in the pamphlet is of the angry fox brandishing a torch.  The text editor has trouble here, as is already clear from the title.  Readers will be distracted by the repeated typo "devided."  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. 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".