Folk Tales From Tibet : With Illustrations By a Tibetan Artist And Some Verses From Tibetan Love-Songs
The book Folk Tales From Tibet : With Illustrations By a Tibetan Artist And Some Verses From Tibetan Love-Songs was written by author O'connor, William Frederick Travers, Sir, 1870-1943 Here you can read free online of Folk Tales From Tibet : With Illustrations By a Tibetan Artist And Some Verses From Tibetan Love-Songs book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Folk Tales From Tibet : With Illustrations By a Tibetan Artist And Some Verses From Tibetan Love-Songs a good or bad book?
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It was in vain that he struggled and wrenched his arm to and fro, 122 FOLK TALES FROM TIBET. endeavouring to release it ; the stone jaws of the Lion gripped him so tight that he was totally unable to effect his escape, and the Lion, deaf to all prayers and entreaties, had relapsed apparently into an insensible figure of stone. And worst of all, when he glanced at his bucket of gold he saw, to his horror, that instead of gold it held nothing but stones and earth. Towards evening the elder brothe...r's wife grew anxious concerning her husband's absence, and knowing the direction in which he had gone, she set forth to the hillside to seek him. After hunting for some time she suddenly came across him, and asked him v/hat he was doing and why he did not come home. " Oh, wife," said he, "a terrible thing has happened to me. I put my hand into the Lion's mouth in order to extract a lump of gold which was stuck in his throat, when all of a sudden he closed his jaws, and gripped my arm, and now I am unable to effect my escape." The poor woman, on hearing this, wept and wailed, but all her entreaties to the Lion proved of no avail, and she went off to her home, and soon returned carrying her husband some food.
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