The Chinese Fairy Book

d not love his parents, and left his mother and brother. The younger one served

k on. But there was a ravine before the village, and he slipped and fell down in the middle of it. And his mother was killed by the rolling stones, and her blood and flesh

, and laid them together as they should be. Then he breathed upon them, and at once the mother was alive again. This made the son very happy, a

nging there either," said h

bade the son give him the bit of flesh, kneaded a manikin out of it, breath

l him brother. You are poor and have not the wherewithal with which to no

ne!" then meat and wine were at hand at once, and steaming rice was already cooking in the pot. And when he said to Small Profit: "Bring money and cloth!" then his purse filled i

n he reached the ravine, he slipped purposely, and let his mother fall into the depths, only intent to see that she really was shattered into fragments. And sure enough hi

said: "I can wake the dead to life again, an

older brother already had hidden one of her ribs on purpose. He now pulled i

athed upon it, as he had done the other time, and it became

is older brother, "if you stick to

back again, and Great

, he saw his younger brother coming

ou going?" h

ho does not wish to dwell for all time among men. He wan

Don't let him get away!"

ther drop on the ground, and stretched out his hand to catch Small Profit. But he did not succeed, and now Great D

said with a sigh: "Alas, I have lost my Great Du

ration-a provisional stage is erected before the village or temple, and a