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Tornado, Blizzard, and Rain Go to Dinner (The Sky on a Clear Day from Wikipedia Commons ) Three sisters, Tornado, Blizzard, and Rain, went to dinner with their aunt the Moon. The Moon had prepared a fantastic feast with the greatest delicacies in the universe. Tornado and Blizzard, the younger sisters, were so entranced by the feast they scarfed down all the food as it came. Rain was older and wiser than her sisters and as the meal went on she thought of their mother, Sun. With each course, Rain tucked some of the meal into her purse to bring home to Sun.  After dinner, the three sisters returned home to their mother. The Sun greeted each of her daughters pleasantly and asked how dinner had gone. The daughters began to enthusiastically describe the wonderful meal.  Turning to Tornado, Sun asked her, "Did you bring me anything from the feast?" Tornado responded, "No Mother I ate every single morsel?" Upset, Sun replied, "For your selfish...

From How the Sun, Moon, and Wind Went Out to Dinner (Sun and Moon from Nagy Imre Community Center )  Plot: The Sun, Moon, and Wind went out to dinner with their aunt and uncle, Thunder and Lightning. Their mother, a distant star, watched over everything for them. While they ate, the Moon put some of the food under her fingernail for her mother. The Sun and Wind did not think of their mother. When they went to see her after dinner, she asked what they brought her back. The Sun said she did not think of her mother as she was out enjoying dinner. The mother cursed the Sun and that is why her rays are so hot and miserable on hot days. The Wind also said she did not bring anything for her mother. Her mother cursed her and that is why on hot days the wind is so disagreeable in hot weather. The Moon shook out the wonderful meal she had saved for her mother. Please, the star blessed the Moon and that is why the Moon’s glow is gentle, beautiful, and cool. Characters: The selfi...

From The Charmed Ring (Cat and Dog by Charles Jervas on Wikipedia Commons ) Plot: A young man is given three hundred rupees by his father to make his fortune in the world. He immediately spends his money buying a cat, dog, and snake who were in danger of being hurt. His father is furious and throws him out of the house. The snake, it turns out, is the son of a man who possesses a magic ring, pot and spoon. The man and the snake travel to his home under a magical lake and the father give the young man his magic ring, pot, and spoon, as a thank you for saving his son. The son then returns to the surface where the magic ring creates a beautiful home with a beautiful princess inside who he marries. The pot and spoon provide them with all the food they could possibly want. One day the princess’s hair floats down the river to a nearby kingdom where a prince finds the hairs and falls impossibly in love with her. He is on his death bed pining for this unknown princess so his father, t...