the brahmin who wouldn’t stop talking

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boddhisattva, dung balls, good aim, jataka, old world tale, pea shooter, sharpshooter, story, talkative

the ash lad

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ash lad, cleverness, contest, dreamer, kingdom, norwegian, princess, story, yes and no

a soft hand

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brahmadatta, illustration, jataka, soft hand, story

the princess’s pearl necklace

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boddhisattva, captain, indian, jataka, monkey business, pearl necklass, story

the swans and the turtle

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falling, jataka, migration, story, swans, turtle

gloomy sunday

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gloomy, sad song, story, sunday

carrying her

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identification, me, poem, spring, story, Tanzin, zen

the wrong way

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art, nasr eddin, right, story, woodcut, wrong

here is another page from my calendar of illustrated mulla nasr eddin stories.
eventually, this will be included in a collection i am calling "yes and no stories", or teaching stories from around the world. i put up three of them some time ago.

i sincerely hope you like this one.

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