Reading Notes: Babbitt. Jataka Tales, Part A

- A crocodile is asked by his mother for a monkeys heart.
- The crocodile tries to drown the monkey but is fooled by the monkey.
- The monkey uses a rock to get from point A to B and out smarts the crocodile again.
-  The kings sons believe the turtle is a demon in their lake.
- They plan to kill the turtle but the turtle convinces them to "kill him" by returning him back to the lake.
-  A granddaughter wants to trade a bowl for something one of the merchants are selling.
- A greedy merchant realizes the old bowl is gold and wants to try to get it for free.
- Another merchant realizes it is gold and gives them everything he owns for the gold bowl.
- The greedy merchant comes back for it but it is too late.
- two geese, friends of a turtle want to take a talkative turtle to their beautiful home.
- They take the turtle by stick and say he must not speak.
- He heard children speaking on them, opened his mouth and fell to his death.
- A man owned an ox and said he would pay a thousand pieces of silver if his ox could not pull 100 carts.
- When the day come he whipped and yelled at the ox but it did not move. He was saddened.
- The ox said he would win tomorrow but to be the nice owner he has always had. they won the next day and got two thousand silver pieces.
-  A merchant travels with goods and men to the city through the desert but only at night when the sand was cooled down.
- The pilot says that they have one more day so to throw away water and wood because they would no longer need it.
- The pilot falls asleep. they end up back to where they were the night before and have no supplies.
- They find water under a grass patch. Make it to the city and back home.
- A fowler catches quails everyday and sells them.
- The quails hatch a plan to work together for freedom.
- They begin to fight and quarrel then the fowler comes and sells them.
- A king is looking for an honest peasant to make him a fortune.
- The king finds a miserable peasant and makes him a valuer .
- Men challenge him of what the measure of rice is, and is called a foolish fellow because of his response and thrown out.
- A rabbit wonders what will become of him if the world was to end.
- The rabbit hears a noise not knowing it was a coconut that fell from a tree and began to run.
- Other animals joined once they heard why he was running, A wise lion stopped them.
- The rabbit took him to the source and the lion told him what had happened and went back to all the other animals and made them aware of it as well.

Bibliography:  Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt.

When the lion confronts the rabbit.

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