How Kangaroo got his Tail A long time ago, some animals looked different to the way they look now. Kangaroos had no tails and wombats had high, round heads. Mirram the Kangaroo and Warreen the Wombat were good friends. They lived together i

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The Wooden Horse A carpenter and a blacksmith had an argument. Each of them insisted that he was more skilful than the other. Who was actually the more skilful of the two? They disputed this question for a long time without reaching any con

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ABSULUM THE REINDEER ELF Absulum the Reindeer Elf worked in the reindeer barn. He had to clean it everyday and that was rather hard for it was such a dirty job to mop and slop and scour and scrape every corner, nook and cranny in that reind

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The Magic Moneybag Long, long ago there was a young couple who lived in a small thatched hut in a gully. They were so poor that every day they had to cut two bundles of firewood and carry them to market on their backs. One day, the young co

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The Storytelling Stone A long time ago, a young man called Crow lived in one of the villages of the Seneca people. His parents had died many years before and he had no one to care for him, or to cook and sew for him. He lived at the very ed

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The Golden Reed Pipe Once upon a time there lived in the mountains a woman and her daughter. The daughter liked to dress in red. Hence her name, Little Red. One day they were plowing and sowing in the fields. All of a sudden, a gale blew up

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Seeking Her Husband at the Great Wall A little over two hundred years before our era, the first emperor of the Chin dynasty ascended the throne under the name of Shih Huang. This emperor was very cruel towards his subjects, forcing people f

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The Tiger Kings Skin Cloak Long, long ago there lived in the Land of the Khans a poor Alad [a serf or a herdsman in the days of feudalism]. His wife bore three children, but unfortunately they all died. No further children were born to the

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滥竽充数 Be there just to make up the number During the Warring States Period (475-221BC), the King of the State of Qi was very fond of listening to yu ensembles. He often got together 300 yu players to form a grand music. The king trea

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Eliza and Athena Eliza and Athena I made this myth up for my Language arts class. I hope you like it Once there was a young girl named Eliza. She was the daughter of a king and so she never had to work. She became very lazy. She had her ser

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入木三分 To have an image of bamboo in one's mind Wang Xi-zhi is one of the most famous calligraphers during the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. When he was very young, he practiced his art every day and never stopped. Later he absorbed t

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破镜重圆 A broken mirror joined together During the Southern and Northern Dynasties (420-589), there lived a beautiful, intelligent princess name Lechang in the State Chen. She and her husband Xu Deyan loved each other dearly. But befor

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吃忘忧树的人 Lotus Eaters on the tenth day after leaving troy,odysseus and his men came to an island,where the people only took lotus fruit and flowers as their food.this plant had such a magic effect on its eaters that it could make

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网开一面 Give the wrong-doer a way out Beginning with Yu the GREat, the Xia Dynasty had lasted about four hundred years before Jie became the supreme ruler. And that was in the 18th century BC. Jie was extremely tyrannical and dissolute

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买椟还珠 Getting the casket and returning the pearl A man from the state of Chu wanted to sell a precious pearl in the state of Zheng. He made a casket for the pearl out of the wood from a magnolia tree, which he fumigated with spices.

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