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三つの古い中国の物語。猫と犬が夜の冒険に出かけ、魔法の金色のカブトムシを取り戻します。虎が法廷に連れて行かれ、とても奇妙な約束を守らなければなりません。そして、怠け者のアヒル泥棒が羽毛だらけで目を覚まします。
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"What will we eat tomorrow? I have no idea!" said Widow Wang to her son, Ming-li. It was early in the morning, and he was going out to look for work.
"Don't worry, Mother," said Ming-li. "I will find a few coins somewhere." He tried to sound happy, but in his heart he did not know where to go.
The winter had been very hard. There was deep snow and a cold, strong wind. The roof of their little house fell in, and Ming-li became very ill. They spent all their money on medicine. When he was well again, he had no job, because another man had taken his place at the shop. Now he was weak, and there was no work in the villages near them.
"He is such a good boy," said the old woman when he left. "No mother ever had a better son. But we have no food. Even the rats have left our house. And look at poor Whitehead and poor Blackfoot!"
