The mayor and corporation of Hamelin outsource a rodent problem to a professional rat-catcher.

A warlike king sets out to bag another small kingdom for his realms, but a monkey gets him thinking.

Prince Agib hears the tale of a boy confined to an underground chamber for forty days, and dismisses it as superstition.

William Sleeman passes on an anecdote from one of the Persian classics, to show that truth should not be used for evil ends.

A weary King Odysseus dozes off on his voyage home to Ithaca, but his crew are wide awake, wondering what is in his bag.

A vain fir is stopped short in her boasting by a clear-thinking bush.