Reading Notes: The Giant Crab, Part B

- Vicious Horse mangling all other horse.
- King comes, groom brings another fierce horse.
- They both bond.
- A monkey steals some peas.
- Drops them all back down, the men begin to come back making the monkey retreat back to the tree.
- A crane tricks fish into hos mouth by promising to take them to a lake.
- A clever crab makes a deal with the crane.
- The crane tries to deceive the crab, but realizes the crab was smart.
- The crane's head gets cut off.
- A fowler catching flocks of quail.
- The quail hatch a plan to not become the fowlers dinner.
- The quail lets their anger and arguing cost them their lives.
- A jackel cub blends with other cub lions.
- The jackel cub tries to scare them and shows his true identity,
- A quail that is fed from ploughed field with no trouble wants more.
- The quail gets caught by a falcon and challenges him.
- The falcon falls for the trickery and dies from flying into the side of the cod.
- King goose has two wives, one a crow and one a goose.
- The king has a crow son named streaky that has no manners for being raised in crow ways.
- The king banishes streaky as his son and never returned to the dust heap, where they lived.
- A proud lioness is disturbed when a jackal asks her to marry him.
- Her two oldest brothers are sent into a rage, they go to the crystal cave and die.
- The last brother calls out to the jackal and scares the jackal to death.
- The was a lion who lived up in the mountains that spotted a boar.
- This boar saw the lion and challenged him.
- They planned to fight next week on that same day but the boar soon realized how strong the lion actually is.
- The boar got out of the fight by becoming filth.
- There was a gardener that lack a nose, but had the prettiest of flowers.
- Three boys all want a posey and try to get one from the gardener.
- The last boy uses honest truth and gets a pile of flowers.
- There was a King who had no flaws and was a good king, but he wanted to know his faults because he believed they existed.
- He disguised himself and went to far places to see what people thought of him but it was all good things.
-He met another king doing the same and a lesson was taught.

Bibliography: "The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India" by W. H. D. Rouse with illustrations by W. Robinson.

The crane being fooled by the clever crab.

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