Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 4 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook.

section 4 of jataka tales by h.t francis and e.j thomas this librivox recording is in the public domain the peacock swooing once on a time in the first cycle of the world's history the quadrupeds chose the lion as their king the fishes the monster fish ananda and the birds the golden mallard now the king golden mallard had a lovely young daughter and her royal father granted her any boon she might ask the boon she asked for was to be allowed to choose a husband for herself and the king in fulfillment of his promise mustered all the birds together in the country of the himalayas all manner of birds came mallards peacocks and all other birds and they flocked together on a great plateau of bare rock then the king sent for his daughter and made her go and choose a husband after her own heart as she reviewed the crowd of birds her eye lighted on the peacock with his neck of jeweled sheen and tail a varied hue and she chose him saying let this be my husband then the assembly of the birds went up to the peacock and said friend peacock this princess in choosing her husband from among all these birds has fixed her choice on you carried away by his extreme joy the peacock exclaimed until this day you have never seen how active i am and in defiance of all decency in the midst of the assembly he spread his wings and began to dance and in dancing he exposed himself filled with shame king golden mallard said this fellow has neither modesty within his heart nor decency in his outward behavior i certainly will not give my daughter to one so shameless and there in the midst of all that assembly of the birds he repeated this stanza a pleasing note is yours a lovely back a neck and hue like lapis lazuli a fathom's length your outstretched feathers reach with all your dancing loses you my child right in the face of the whole gathering king royal mallard gave his daughter to a young mallard a nephew of his covered with shame at the loss of the mallard princess the peacock rose straight up from the place and fled away and king golden mallard too went back to his dwelling place the fowler and the quails once upon a time when king brahmadata was king of benares the bodhisattva was born a quail and lived in the forest at the head of many thousands of quails in those days a fowler who caught quails came to that place and he used to imitate the note of a quail till he saw that the birds had been drawn together when he flung his net over them and whipped the sides of the net together so as to get them all huddled up in a heap then he crammed them into his basket and going home sold his prey for a living now one day the bodhisattva said to those quails this fowler is making havoc among our kinsfolk i have a device whereby he will be unable to catch us henceforth the very moment he throws the net over you let each one put his head through a mesh and then all of you together must fly away with the net to such place as you please and there let it down on a thorn break this done we will all escape from our several meshes very good said they all in ready agreement on the morrow when the net was cast over them they did just as the bodhisattva had told them they lifted up the net and let it down on the thorn break escaping themselves from underneath while the fowler was still disentangling his net evening came on and he went away empty-handed on the morrow and following days the quails played the same trick so that it became the regular thing for the fowler to be engaged till sunset disentangling his net and then to be take himself home empty-handed accordingly his wife grew angry and said day by day you return empty-handed i suppose you've got a second establishment to keep up elsewhere no my dear said the fowler i have no second establishment to keep up the fact is those quails have come to work together now the moment my net is over them off they...

Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 4 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook.

section 4 of jataka tales by h.t francis and e.j thomas this librivox recording is in the public domain the peacock swooing once on a time in the first cycle of the world's history the quadrupeds chose the lion as their king the fishes the monster fish ananda and the birds the golden mallard now the king golden mallard had a lovely young daughter and her royal father granted her any boon she might ask the boon she asked for was to be allowed to choose a husband for herself and the king in fulfillment of his promise mustered all the birds together in the country of the himalayas all manner of birds came mallards peacocks and all other birds and they flocked together on a great plateau of bare rock then the king sent for his daughter and made her go and choose a husband after her own heart as she reviewed the crowd of birds her eye lighted on the peacock with his neck of jeweled sheen and tail a varied hue and she chose him saying let this be my husband then the assembly of the birds went up to the peacock and said friend peacock this princess in choosing her husband from among all these birds has fixed her choice on you carried away by his extreme joy the peacock exclaimed until this day you have never seen how active i am and in defiance of all decency in the midst of the assembly he spread his wings and began to dance and in dancing he exposed himself filled with shame king golden mallard said this fellow has neither modesty within his heart nor decency in his outward behavior i certainly will not give my daughter to one so shameless and there in the midst of all that assembly of the birds he repeated this stanza a pleasing note is yours a lovely back a neck and hue like lapis lazuli a fathom's length your outstretched feathers reach with all your dancing loses you my child right in the face of the whole gathering king royal mallard gave his daughter to a young mallard a nephew of his covered with shame at the loss of the mallard princess the peacock rose straight up from the place and fled away and king golden mallard too went back to his dwelling place the fowler and the quails once upon a time when king brahmadata was king of benares the bodhisattva was born a quail and lived in the forest at the head of many thousands of quails in those days a fowler who caught quails came to that place and he used to imitate the note of a quail till he saw that the birds had been drawn together when he flung his net over them and whipped the sides of the net together so as to get them all huddled up in a heap then he crammed them into his basket and going home sold his prey for a living now one day the bodhisattva said to those quails this fowler is making havoc among our kinsfolk i have a device whereby he will be unable to catch us henceforth the very moment he throws the net over you let each one put his head through a mesh and then all of you together must fly away with the net to such place as you please and there let it down on a thorn break this done we will all escape from our several meshes very good said they all in ready agreement on the morrow when the net was cast over them they did just as the bodhisattva had told them they lifted up the net and let it down on the thorn break escaping themselves from underneath while the fowler was still disentangling his net evening came on and he went away empty-handed on the morrow and following days the quails played the same trick so that it became the regular thing for the fowler to be engaged till sunset disentangling his net and then to be take himself home empty-handed accordingly his wife grew angry and said day by day you return empty-handed i suppose you've got a second establishment to keep up elsewhere no my dear said the fowler i have no second establishment to keep up the fact is those quails have come to work together now the moment my net is over them off they...

Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 3 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook

Jātaka Tales by H. T. Francis; E. J. Thomas 3 International Stories for Children Free Audiobook

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 2 The Robbery Free Public Domain Audiobooks

The Mystery at Dark Cedars by Edith Lavell 2 The Robbery Free Public Domain Audiobooks

French - Courage et témérité key words: children, moral, foolhardiness, short story Free Audiobook.

courage était mérité paillot jeune müller raid in french freebox torque pas sonia courage était méritée pour arriver plus tôt afin de sauver son jeune frère qu'il venait de voir tomber dans une mare où ils allaient périr le petit claude s'élance à un jour de la fenêtre du premier étage grâce à dieu ils sortis sains et saufs de cette périlleuse prouesses et ramena son frère vivant sur le bord comment le féliciter de sa généreuse action à lebon miracle ce prix est à dire jalousement andré sans cousin j'ai bien sauté de plus au mois l'autre jour vous savez la grande échelle du funny eh bien je ne me suis pas pris à deux fois un bon up et je n'ai rien de cassé moi non plus tu as fait cela demande alpert du jaloux oui et dans quel but exposés ci follement pour m'amuser pour prouver que je n'ai pas peur ah oui le père irrité de la sorte gloriole de son fils et du mauvais sentiments qui l'avait porté à essayer de s'en faire honneur 23 à lui et le prenant par l'oreille il lui a appris à ne plus confondre le courage utile hélas cette témérité end of courage et témérité test recording et c'est le public domaine

French - Courage et témérité key words: children, moral, foolhardiness, short story Free Audiobook.

courage était mérité paillot jeune müller raid in french freebox torque pas sonia courage était méritée pour arriver plus tôt afin de sauver son jeune frère qu'il venait de voir tomber dans une mare où ils allaient périr le petit claude s'élance à un jour de la fenêtre du premier étage grâce à dieu ils sortis sains et saufs de cette périlleuse prouesses et ramena son frère vivant sur le bord comment le féliciter de sa généreuse action à lebon miracle ce prix est à dire jalousement andré sans cousin j'ai bien sauté de plus au mois l'autre jour vous savez la grande échelle du funny eh bien je ne me suis pas pris à deux fois un bon up et je n'ai rien de cassé moi non plus tu as fait cela demande alpert du jaloux oui et dans quel but exposés ci follement pour m'amuser pour prouver que je n'ai pas peur ah oui le père irrité de la sorte gloriole de son fils et du mauvais sentiments qui l'avait porté à essayer de s'en faire honneur 23 à lui et le prenant par l'oreille il lui a appris à ne plus confondre le courage utile hélas cette témérité end of courage et témérité test recording et c'est le public domaine

Ancient Greek - Τα Των Πυθαγορείων Χρυσά Έπη (The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras) key words: epic verse, poetry

Ancient Greek - Τα Των Πυθαγορείων Χρυσά Έπη (The Golden Verses Of Pythagoras) key words: epic verse, poetry