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The Wise And Foolish Merchant Two merchants were going to travel the same road and sell their goods. One went on ahead and ended up getting outsmarted by a demon. The second merchant was wiser and took note of details about the demon that saved his life. The Elephant Girly-Face An Elephant overheard some robbers talk about being bad. The elephant thought they were teaching him how to act, so the elephant proceeded to kill anyone that would come near. After overhearing people talk about good things, the elephant changed its ways back to being nice. The moral here I think is to be wary of impressionable people. The Banyan Deer Kind of a weird plot sequence. The two deer herds got rounded up in a pen, and one was killed every day. The weird thing is that the deers were completely complicit in it all. They never tried to fight back it seemed. One deer sacrificed itself for another and the King decided to stop hunting them. The Princes and the Water-Sprite Three princes got sent i...

Monkey and the Crocodile I remember reading this near the beginning of the semester. The story is slightly different from the first time I read it though. The deceit that the monkey uses could be good for some plot developments in my stories. How the Turtle Saved His Own Life This one I remember as well. I liked the deceit the turtle used in this one. Very similar to the Monkey and The Crocodile. The Merchant of Seri Interesting story. I think the point here is to not be so cocky? While the ending threw me off a bit, I guess the point is to do the right thing no matter what. Endings don't need to be extravagant. The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking Definitely remember this one as well. The turtle just needed to keep his mouth shut, but because he couldn't, he ended up dying. The Ox Who Won The Forfeit Pretty simple story. The ox's owner treated the ox poorly and lost a bet because of it. After treating the ox nicely, the ox did what the owner wanted and he ...