A Kingdom Lost for a Drop of Honey: And Other Burmese FolktalesParents' Magazine Press, 1968 - 96 pages A collection of fifteen Burmese folktales including "Why the Rabbit's Nose Twitches" and "The Origin of the Coconut." Also contains a separate section explaining Burmese terms and customs mentioned in the stories. |
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... Mandalay in Central Burma . They were selected expressly for young readers and are being published for the first time in the United States . These tales appear among several hundred others in two of Dr. Htin Aung's scholarly books ...
... Mandalay in Central Burma . They were selected expressly for young readers and are being published for the first time in the United States . These tales appear among several hundred others in two of Dr. Htin Aung's scholarly books ...
Page 93
... Mandalay , in the dry zone , the farmers plant sesamum as an alternate crop to cotton . The story , " Why the Rabbit's Nose Twitches , " and many others in this collection , originally came from that region of Burma . In the Arabian ...
... Mandalay , in the dry zone , the farmers plant sesamum as an alternate crop to cotton . The story , " Why the Rabbit's Nose Twitches , " and many others in this collection , originally came from that region of Burma . In the Arabian ...
Page 96
... Mandalay where he began drawing at the age of fourteen and later studied with the grand old master of Mandalay , U Ba Thet . He also completed a correspondence course in the United States . Today Paw Oo Thet ranks as a leading Burmese ...
... Mandalay where he began drawing at the age of fourteen and later studied with the grand old master of Mandalay , U Ba Thet . He also completed a correspondence course in the United States . Today Paw Oo Thet ranks as a leading Burmese ...
Contents
Foreword | 11 |
Mister Luck and Mister Industry | 18 |
Why the Rabbits Nose Twitches | 24 |
Copyright | |
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asked bamboo shoots bamboo thorn baskets became bee-hunter bees boat brass dish brass ladder Buddhist Burma Burmese calf called cattle chamberlain colt cool dispute driving spear DROP OF HONEY drunkard elephant farmer fight my enemy folktales fried fish ghosts gold dish Golden Crow golden ladder gong greedy girl hair head headman herdsman house lizard inside my stomach jackal jaggery Judge Rabbit jumped king king's laughed little girl live longyi looked Mandalay mats meal mischief-maker Mister Industry Mister Luck monsoon Moon-goddess morning mortar moss mother muddy water Naga night ogre oozie opium-eater otter pagoda parasol partnership pleaded poor traveler pots of gold Princess Learned-in-the-Law rafts rain replied Master Thumb rotten egg sesamum plant seven pots shouted silver coin sire snake stallkeeper surprise tamarind tattooed tiger toddy toddy-climber village village at sunset water jars wear wild pheasant woman zayat دو