Japanese Children's Favorite Stories Book Two. Florence Sakade
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Compiled by Florence Sakade
Illustrated by Yoshio Hayashi
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Tokyo • Rutland, Vermont • Singapore
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Contents
The Magic Mortar
Once upon a time two brothers lived together in a little village in Japan. The eldest brother worked very hard all the time, but the younger brother was very lazy and good-for-nothing. One day the elder brother went off to the mountains to work. While he was working, an old man came up to him and gave him a mortar made of stone, the kind used for grinding rice or wheat into flour.
"This is a magic mortar which will give you anything you wish for," said the old man. "Please take it home with you."
The elder brother was very happy and rushed home with the mortar.
"Please give me rice. We need rice." So saying, he ground the stick in the mortar. And all at once out came rice, bales of rice. There was so much that he gave rice to everyone in the village.
"This is wonderful! This is a great help. Thank you very much." The villagers were all very happy.
That is, everyone was happy except the lazy younger brother. "I wish I had that; I'd make better use of it," he grumbled to himself. And one day he stole the magic mortar and ran away.
"No one will be able to catch me if I can get to the ocean," he thought as he ran to the seashore.