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Contents
| 4 | The Tower that Reached from Earth to Heaven |
| 9 | A Chinese Cinderella |
| 17 | The Fox Turns a Somersault |
| 20 | The Tiger in Court |
| 25 | The Story of the Fairy Boat |
| 30 | The Country of the Mice |
| 37 | How the Cock Got His Red Crown |
| 43 | The Wishing Cup |
| 51 | The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey |
| 59 | The Magic Pancakes at the Footbridge Tavern |
| 65 | Soo Tan the Tiger and the Little Green frog |
| 71 | The Fox, the Hare, and the Toad Have an Argument |
| 75 | A Hungry Wolf |
| 82 | The Cricket Fight |
| 88 | The Little Hare's Clever Trick |
| 93 | The King of the Mountain |
| 101 | The Jackals and the Tiger |
| 107 | How the Deer Lost His Tail |
The Tower that Reached from
Earth to Heaven
Tibet
Far away, on the western borders of Tibet, there is a country called the Land of Sekkim. In the Land of Sekkim there lives a race of men called Lepchas. In the race of men called Lepchas there was a farmer named Wu who had many little pigs.
One day, when the winds blew strong from the mountains of Tibet, Farmer Wu's little pigs all ran away. Now Farmer Wu loved his little pigs more than anything
