Reading Notes: The Giant Crab, Part A
- The crab was really big.
- One animal never comes out of the water.
- A great elephant wants to end the crab.
- Mrs. Elephant begs the crab to let her husband go.
- Crab is a flirt, and wants a kiss.
- Even a elephant is too heavy for the crab.
- Nothing left of the crab but his claws.
- The sons of a king finds claws.
- Troop of rats living by the river.
- A cat not strong enough to take on the troop of rats alone.
- The cat is saw for who he really is and killed.
- Monkey lives on the bank by the river.
- crocodile’s wife wants the monkeys heart
- The crocodile is foolish to think animals do not carry their hearts.
- Two parrots
- Thieving maid left alone while he is out
- wise parrot and foolish parrot.
- Friend says that a huge rat ate the plough
- Man says friends son was carried off by hawk.
- Judge says if the plough is found, so will the boy.
- A farmer feeds a rat.
- The rat returns the favor by giving gold.
- Cat swallows glass that the mouse was in.
- A tortoise that talks too much.
- Geese carry him by a stick to the mountains, while the tortoise clenches the stick with his mouth.
- Opens his mouth to talk and falls to his death.
- A gardener wants to go to the city fair.
- The gardener leaves a pack of monkeys in charge.
- Goblin eats men who sneeze in the house.
- Father and son stay in the house, he gets them to sneeze.
- They say the words that protect them and they tell the goblin to come with them.
- A Goblin lives in the ONE pool that still has water.
- Can only eat animals that come into the water.
- A man shows them how to be able to drink water without going in.
- A farmer has two Oxens for his plough, one dies and he has to ask the king for one.
- The verse he practices to get one, sounds like he is asking the king to take the last one.
- A wolf, Stranded on a rock due to flood waters says he is going to fast for a couple of days.
- A fairy tests the wolf by becoming a little boy and the wolf tries to eat him.
Bibliography: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson.
- One animal never comes out of the water.
- A great elephant wants to end the crab.
- Mrs. Elephant begs the crab to let her husband go.
- Crab is a flirt, and wants a kiss.
- Even a elephant is too heavy for the crab.
- Nothing left of the crab but his claws.
- The sons of a king finds claws.
- Troop of rats living by the river.
- A cat not strong enough to take on the troop of rats alone.
- The cat is saw for who he really is and killed.
- Monkey lives on the bank by the river.
- crocodile’s wife wants the monkeys heart
- The crocodile is foolish to think animals do not carry their hearts.
- Two parrots
- Thieving maid left alone while he is out
- wise parrot and foolish parrot.
- Friend says that a huge rat ate the plough
- Man says friends son was carried off by hawk.
- Judge says if the plough is found, so will the boy.
- A farmer feeds a rat.
- The rat returns the favor by giving gold.
- Cat swallows glass that the mouse was in.
- A tortoise that talks too much.
- Geese carry him by a stick to the mountains, while the tortoise clenches the stick with his mouth.
- Opens his mouth to talk and falls to his death.
- A gardener wants to go to the city fair.
- The gardener leaves a pack of monkeys in charge.
- Goblin eats men who sneeze in the house.
- Father and son stay in the house, he gets them to sneeze.
- They say the words that protect them and they tell the goblin to come with them.
- A Goblin lives in the ONE pool that still has water.
- Can only eat animals that come into the water.
- A man shows them how to be able to drink water without going in.
- A farmer has two Oxens for his plough, one dies and he has to ask the king for one.
- The verse he practices to get one, sounds like he is asking the king to take the last one.
- A wolf, Stranded on a rock due to flood waters says he is going to fast for a couple of days.
- A fairy tests the wolf by becoming a little boy and the wolf tries to eat him.
Bibliography: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson.
The monkey reaching the side of the river with all the fruit.
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