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                Wee Willie Winkie. Ben was a little boy who didn’t like to go to bed. ‘It is eight o’ clock, you must go to bed,’ said his mother one summer night. ‘I wish I could be a fairy and play in the garden at night.’ Said Ben. Hush! Hush! Here is Wee Willie Winkie to see Ben. ‘Come with me,’ he said ‘I will show you what  I have to do to night.’ Off went Ben with Willie. What fun they had running through the town in their night gowns.   They went up-stairs and down-stairs sending boys and girls to bed. What fun they had rapping at the windows and shouting at the locks. ‘What a bother boys and girls are if they do not got to bed by eight o’ clock,’ said Willie. ‘I cannot go back to fairy land until they go to bed.’ ‘Oh!’ said Ben. ‘I must be a bother to you.’  running through the town. Wee Willie Winkie, Wee Willie Winkie, Runs through the town, Up-stairs and down-stairs, ...

The Wicked Lion. A lion became weak with old age. He couldn’t hunt for his prey. So he pretended to be sick and lay down in his den. Then he asked for someone to come and clean his house. The beasts heard his request and though they didn’t feel much love for the lion, they pretended to be loyal and came to see him. As they entered one by one, the lion made morsels of them and grew fat upon this diet. The fox had stayed away suspecting that the old lion was faking. At last he came to ask after the health of king of the jungle standing at some distance from the lion’s cave. He asked ‘how are you, your majesty?’ ‘Ah! My dear friend,’ said the lion. ‘Why do you stand so far away from me? I am rather deaf and can only hear you if you speak near my ear.’ ‘May God give you long life,’ said the fox. ‘But excuse me, I see all the footsteps pointing towards your house but none going outwards. So farewell dear friend.’ I see all the footsteps pointing towards your h...

The Miser and the Lump of Gold. There was a miser who sold his property and bought a great lump of gold with cash. He hid the gold in a hole in the ground. Every morning and evening he went to see if it was safe. This aroused the curiosity of one of his workman and he followed his master. He saw the spot where the gold was buried. When the master went to town, the workman went and dug the hole and stole the gold. Next morning miser went to see his treasure and found the gold gone. He wept lot. A neighbour who knew what had happened said: ‘do not make yourself unhappy. Take a stone and put it in the hole and think it is your lump of gold. As you never meant to use your gold, the useless stone will be as good for you as precious metal.’     This aroused the curiosity of one of his workman and he followed his master. A miser with a gold lump,    hide his gold in the ground,         a greedy workman of his own...

        The farmer and three  sons. A farmer had three sons who quarreled with one another all day. He advised them not to use bad words against each other. But they wouldn’t listen. One day he came back from the forest with bundle of sticks in his hand. He sat down and asked each of his sons to take up the bundle and break it into two parts. They tried but in vain. The farmer united the bundle and gave them one stick after another saying ‘break this now.’ They broke each stick into several parts. The farmer said to his sons: ‘as long as you are together no one can separate you. But if you are divided, you can be broken into pieces. They tried but in vain. A farmer had three sons, who quarreled with one another everyday, one day farmer taught them a good lesson, that is: United we stand, divided we fall. Questions. Who had three sons? How many brothers are there in this story? What was carried by the farmer when he c...

                                                                                                                         Little Miss Muffet. Little Miss Muffet was a fairy. The fairy queen was fond of her. She let her have a little tuffet in her garden, by the bank of the pond. One day she was sent by the fairy queen to water some forget-me-nots. Miss Muffet forgot and went to play by the pond. By and by, the fairy queen came past and was sad to see her forget-me-nots so ill. So she sent a big spider to tell Miss Muffet to come and water the forget-me-nots. He met the wind and said ‘I am looking for Miss Muffet.’ ‘Oh!’ said the wind. ‘She is sitting on her tuffet...

Dickery, a brave mouse. Dickery is a little mouse. He lives in a snug nest with his father, mother and twin sisters in the larder. ‘Puss would like to catch me.’ He said to his mother, ’but he cannot. I am too clever.’ ‘Oh, my dear! Puss is clever too and he will catch you if you jump off this shelf.’ But Dickery forgot what his mother said and he set off to see the rest of the house. He came to the landing and saw a big grand-father clock. Dickery went to sniff it. What a clever thing it was! It said, ‘Dick, dock, Dickery, dock.’    ‘oh!’ said Dickery. ‘That is my name.’ So he ran up the clock. Just then the clock said ‘whirr!’ and struck one big ting. What a start he got! Down he ran as fast as he could and with a big jump landed back on the shelf.  Now when he says that he is going to do clever things his sisters scoff and sing: He came to the landing and saw a big grand-father clock.         ...

Humpty Dumpty. Long, long ago, Hen-len laid a big egg. She said to a fairy who was passing, ‘please turn this egg into a little Humpty Dumpty.’ The fairy put her hand on the egg and it became a little boy. Hen-len fled to give him to the princess for a birthday gift. One day the princess said to Humpty Dumpty, ’let us go and see all the king’s horses and all the kings men’. ‘Now I shall put you on this wall so that you can see them. You will come to no harm if you sit still Humpty Dumpty.’ But he could not sit still and so he fell off the wall. Up came the king’s horses; off came the king’s men but they could not mend him. ‘Oh dear! ‘Wept Hen-len.‘ I shall never again ask a fairy to turn one of my eggs into a Humpty Dumpty.’ Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall. Humpty Dumpty.                            Humpty Dumpty sat on ...

                                                   Wise Rat and Mighty Lion. A rat once ran over a body of a sleeping lion.The lion awake and caught the rat."A nice morsel before dinner" he thought. He made as if to eat him. The rat trembled and begged forgiveness."I promise to repay you if you let me go", the rat said "To repay me!", laughed the lion."You little rat!" all the same, the lion let the rat go. A few days later, the lion was captured by some hunters and tied by a rope to a tree.The rat heard his groans."You laughed at me the other day", he said,"when I promised to repay your kindness.Now go away." The rat went forward and gnawing at the rope,freed the lion.      The rat went forward and gnawing at the rope Wise rat and lion. Wise little rat        ...