14-06-24 The horse of Confucius's chariot escaped to the farmer's field and ate the crop during the rest time. The farmer kept the horse in custody. The eloquent（有口才的） Zi Gong went to argue with the farmer, but out of his expectation, the farmer would...

14-06-16 A father and a son were passing Zhao Fu's field when their horse got frightened and refused to move. The sweating father and son went to ask for Zhao Fu's help to push the cart. Zhao Fu said yes and put his hoe（锄头） on the cart and took over the...

14-06-10 A person of the state of Song named Er Shuo was noted for his eloquence（口才，雄辩） at his times. On one from the famous She Xia school of the state of Qi could defeat him in his argument that a white horse is not a horse. Nevertheless when he pas...

14-06-04 One day Mo Zi severely reproached one of his apostles（使徒） , Geng Zhuzi. Geng Zhuzi felt wronged and complained, I have not made more mistakes than others. Why did you give me such a going-over? Upon hearing this, Mo Zi said, If you were driving...

14-05-29 Zhao Xiangzi had been learning chariot（二轮战车） driving from Wang Yuqi. Before long, Zhao Xiangzi contested with Wang Yuqi. Zhao Xiangzi changed horses three times and lost three times. Then he reproached（责备） Wang Yuqi for not having taught h...

14-05-20 There was a poor man in the state of Qi who made his living as a beggar in town. After some time the people in the town began to dislike him, and gradually refused to give food to him. There was nothing he could do but go to work in farmers' horse p...

14-05-20 A man was reading a newspaper at a table, when his wife suddenly came to him and hit him on the back. The man was very surprised and asked: Why do you hit me? The wife answered: Who is Mary mentioned in the letter in your pocket? The man said: It wa...

14-05-14 The Caliph, Haroun-al-Raschid, was much pleased with the tale of the blind man and the dervish（托钵僧） , and when it was finished he turned to the young man who had ill-treated his horse, and inquired his name also. The young man replied that he w...

14-04-09 Meanwhile the Indian had turned the horse in such a direction that, before many hours had passed, it had entered a wood close to the capital of the kingdom of Cashmere. Feeling very hungry, and supposing that the princess also might be in want of fo...

14-04-09 So the prince began at the beginning, and told all the story of the festival of Nedrouz held yearly in Persia, and of the splendid spectacles celebrated in its honour. But when he came to the enchanted horse, the princess declared that she could nev...