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The Final Test of Confidence | 自信的最终考验
A professor offers his students a 'B' grade if they opt out of the final exam. Most accept, but t...
The Naughty Boy | 顽皮的孩子
A kind old poet shelters a beautiful, shivering boy from a storm, only to discover the child is C...
Why Bother Getting Up? | 何必当初
A notoriously lazy man named Wang Laowu, who always denies his laziness, falls twice while walkin...
Hercules and Plutus | 赫拉克勒斯与财神
Hercules snubs Plutus at a divine banquet, explaining to Jupiter that he dislikes the god of weal...
Gossip | 闲话
This article uses the metaphor of "bags of gossip" to illustrate the different ways people handle...
The Dean's Morning Greeting | 系主任的早晨问候
A dean identifies a class as freshmen based on their enthusiastic response to his greeting, then ...
The Clever Little Tailor | 聪明的小裁缝
A proud princess challenges suitors with a riddle. A clever but seemingly unskilled young tailor ...
Alone in the House | 独自在家
A young woman is left alone in her grandfather's centuries-old London home. Over two terrifying n...
The Debtor and His Sow | 欠债人与母猪
An Athenian debtor, unable to pay, tries to sell his only sow at market. To impress a buyer, he a...
A Mother's Love | 母爱
A farmer cleverly leads a stubborn cow to slaughter by using her calf, demonstrating the powerful...
Through Time and Fog | 穿越迷雾
A driver encounters a mysterious fog on a short trip and discovers a gas station that shouldn't e...
Where Is God? | 上帝在哪里？
A mischievous boy, sent to a stern clergyman for discipline, is terrified when repeatedly asked "...
The Single Mesh | 一孔之见
A bird-catcher, after catching a bird in one mesh of his net, mistakenly believes a single-mesh n...
Borrowing an Ox | 讳不识字
An illiterate rich man, too proud to admit it, pretends to read a letter requesting to borrow an ...
Little Briar-Rose | 玫瑰公主
A princess, cursed to sleep for a hundred years after pricking her finger on a spindle, is awaken...
First Boyfriend | 第一个男朋友
A little girl named Jenny, struggling to make friends at school, proudly tells her classmates she...
The Strange Sounds, Legs, and Girl | 怪声、怪腿与怪女孩
The narrator recounts a series of terrifying supernatural encounters in their new home over two y...
The Kingfisher's Nest | 翠鸟迁巢
The kingfisher repeatedly lowers its nest out of excessive protectiveness for its young, ultimate...
The Haunted Organ and the Mysterious Cat | 风琴魅影与神秘夜猫
During a family visit to a dimly lit mountain house, the narrator encounters an impossible cat, w...
The Man Who Choked | 因噎废食
A man who ate ravenously choked to death on a fishbone. In a misguided response, someone banned e...