The Chinese Fairy Book

: "Take good care of the house, for I am going to see grandmother, together with your little brother!" So the daughters

ing with my child

est a bit?" ask

dy late, and it is a long ro

ging her, and finally she gave i

llowed the panther to comb her hair. But as he passed his claws

oman, "the way you

d him too, put on the woman's clothes, and laid the child's bones, which he had not yet devoured, in her basket. After that he went to the woman's home, where her two daughters

house, and saw her hens laying eggs. That pleases m

spots in her face

I had to sleep on the peas, and th

eet are not so

rom walking such a distance.

other," and they opened the door. But when the panther c

ready in bed, the panther was still gn

asked: "Mother, w

beets," wa

mother, give us some of your

ill not give you any. Now

they said to each other: "We must make haste to escape else he will eat us as well." And with that they ran out of the door, climbed up into a tree i

hat they were sitting in the tree, she calle

o a basket and throw us the

back and forth, and bump it against the tree. Then the false mother had to turn into a

themselves on the doorstep, and cried for their mother. And

other," said the girls. "He has gone now, but

d: "Stick these needles in the cushion of the arm chair, wi

ing. "A panther has devoured our mother and brother," said the girls

ut it behind the hearth in the kitchen."

panther has devoured our mother and our brother," said the girls.

it beneath the ashes in the hearth." T

rd." And then a man came by who sold wooden clubs. He asked them why they were crying. And they told him the whole story. Then he gav

hen it was that the scorpion hooked his sting into his hand. And when at last the fire was burning, the egg burst and spurted into one of his eyes, which was blinded. So he ran out into the yard and dipped his

silver fox" in No. 49, and the fairy-tale is made up of motives to be found in