13-11-21 My second decree is that every day you must bring me an animal for my supper. A king can't do his own hunting. The animals nodded gloomily. And my third decree is, if you don't do as I say, I'll eat the lot of you! The animals now turned to one anot...

13-11-21 There was once on a time a King who had a wife with golden hair, and she was so beautiful that her equal was not to be found on earth. It came to pass that she lay ill, and as she felt that she must soon die, she called the King and said, If thou wi...

13-11-20 There was once a man who understood all kinds of arts; he served in war, and behaved well and bravely, but when the war was over he received his dismissal（解雇） , and three farthings for his expenses on the way. Stop, said he, I shall not be conte...

13-10-10 Once there was a king. He likes to write stories, but his stories were not good. As people were afraid of him, they all said his stories were good. One day the king showed his stories to a famous writer. He waited the writer to praise these stories....

13-09-25 In the last years of the Warring States period, the State of Qin attacked the State of Wei on a large scale repeatedly and occupied large areas of land, for the State of Wei was too weak to defend itself. In 273 B.B., the Qin army launched another a...

13-09-16 A long time ago, there was a king in India. The king's favourite game was chess. One day, a wise old man came to the place and the king challenged him to a game. The king promised the old man, You can have any prize if you win the game. The old man...

13-09-05 There was once upon a time a rich King who had three daughters, who daily went to walk in the palace garden, and the King was a great lover of all kinds of fine trees, but there was one for which he had such an affection, that if anyone gathered an...

13-09-05 About a thousand or more years ago, there were in this country nothing but small kings, and one of them who lived on the Keuterberg was very fond of hunting. Once on a time when he was riding forth from his castle with his huntsmen, three girls were...

13-09-04 There was once a King who had an illness, and no one believed that he would come out of it with his life. He had three sons who were much distressed about it, and went down into the palace-garden and wept. There they met an old man who inquired as t...

13-08-08 There was once on a time a King who had a little boy of whom it had been foretold that he should be killed by a stag when he was sixteen years of age, and when he had reached that age the huntsmen once went hunting with him. In the forest, the King'...