"Don't go near the well! Don't play round it!" Mother Hen said to her children. And they never came to the well. But once a little chicken ran to the well and stopped there.

Once a chief told one of his servants to bring him the best meat from the market. The servant brought him a tongue...

When he was a strong young cat, he caught many mice. The mice were afraid of him then. But in time he grew old and could not catch mice any more...

Once two frogs fell into a pot of cream. They could not get out of the pot. So they swam round and round in the cream. "Oh, this is the end of my life," said one of them. It stopped swimming and died...

Once there lived an old woman. She had two donkeys. Every morning she went with them down the street to the fields. One morning two young men saw the old woman with her donkeys and shouted:...