Reading Notes: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India pt. i

 - a man asked friend to watch plough

- immediately sold it when the man left 

kept the money like a little thief

- when man came back the friend blamed it on a giant rat

- man took friend's son out for a walk

- hid him with someone else and told the friend his child was carried off by a hawk

- went to court and a judge did not believe about the hawk so man brought up giant rat

- friend had to give back plough and then he got his son

- lived an honest life after that

Person holding a rat (Unsplash)

Title: The Giant Crab, and Other Tales from Old India

Author: W. H. D. Rouse

Illustrator: W. Robinson

Year: 1897