Tales of a Korean Grandmother. Frances Carpenter

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      •TALES OF A•

       KOREAN

       GRANDMOTHER

      •TALES OF A•

       Korean

       GRANDMOTHER

      FRANCES CARPENTER

      TUTTLE PUBLISHING

       Tokyo • Rutland, Vermont • Singapore

      Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., with editorial offices at 364 Innovation Drive, North Clarendon, VT 05759 U.S.A. and 61 Tai Seng Avenue, #02-12, Singapore 534167.

      Copyright in Japan, 1973

       by Charles E Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc.

       All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 72077515

       ISBN: 978-1-4629-0290-3

      First edition published 1947

       by Doubleday Company, Inc., Garden City N.Y.

      First Tuttle edition, 1973

       Printed in Singapore

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      To my favorite children

       DAVID and JOANNA

      TABLE

       OF

       CONTENTS

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgment

       The House of Kim

       Land of Morning Brightness

       Ki Ja's Pottery Hats

       Why the Dog and the Cat Are Not Friends

       Sticks and Turnips! Sticks and Turnips!

       The Tiger and the Puppy

       The Bird of the Five Virtues

       The Blind Man's Daughter

       The Man Who Lived a Thousand Years

       A Fortune from a Frog

       The Great Fifteenth Day

       A Korean Cinderella

       The Rabbit That Rode on a Tortoise

       Letters from Heaven

       The Mourner Who Sang and the Nun Who Danced

       The Ant That Laughed Too Much

       Rice from a Cat's Fur

       The Beggars' Friend

       The Village of the Pure Queen

       A Story for Sale

       The Two Stone Giants

       The Mole and the Miryek

       The King's Seventh Daughter

       The Woodcutter and the Old Men of the Mountain

       The Good Brother's Reward

       The Pansu and the Stableboy

       The Sparrows and the Flies

       Clever Sim Who Would "Squeeze"

       The Tiger Hunter and the Mirror

       The Rooster and the Centipede

       The Rock of the Falling Flower

       Epilogue—Many, Many Years Later, Ok Cha's Strangest Stories

      LIST

       OF

       ILLUSTRATIONS

      The Master of the House rode out of the city, perched on a sturdy little Korean horse.