Short passages for reading, drawn from history, legend, poetry and fiction.
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A benevolent lecturer has to persuade a class of restless girls to stay inside on a rainy day.
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© shikibane taro, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
An Elizabethan mariner reaches Japan under terrible hardships, only to find himself under sentence of death at the hands of his fellow Europeans.
© Shobha Elizabeth John, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC-BY-SA 4.0.
A street urchin of Lahore takes it on himself to provide a naive Tibetan monk with a hot meal.
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Four knights thought they were helping their King, but they could not have made a greater mistake.
© Krzysztof Golik, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Dutch explorer ran across two islands in the Pacific of which Europeans knew nothing, but his chief desire was to get past them.
© Gayatree Tripathy, Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.
A dozy rabbit gets an idea into his head and soon all the animals of India are running for their lives.
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