Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Pumpkin In The Jar - A Philippian Folk Tale
A king is out hunting one day in the hot sun and has he wonders off and loses his companions he comes a cross a young maiden and notices that she is growing a garden of pumpkins and melons. He becomes and thirsty and asks the young maiden for a drink and as she offers him a drink and then breaks the jar from which he used the king goes back to his palace and months later he sends a knight with a jar to the young maiden and tells her that she must fit a whole pumpkin inside the jar with out breaking or damaging either the jar or the pumpkin.
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Very inspirational!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteisn't it? I remember my poor drawings for that book.
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