Week 11 Reading Notes: More Jataka Tales pt. i

 - the monkeys had a fine life living in the king's garden

- the only task they had was to help the gardener with the trees

- they had to water the young trees so that they would grow, but also not over saturate them with water 

- the moneys were unsure how to accomplish this

- the king of the monkeys suggested pulling all the trees up and checking the root length

- shorter roots= younger trees = need to be watered

- in the end they killed all the trees

- stupid monkeys 

- could write from own experience of just being bad with trees

- or write it from the gardener's perspective of coming back to all his hard work tarnished

Title: More Jataka Tales
Author: Ellen C. Babbitt
Illustrator: Ellsworth Young
Year: 1922

Three Monkeys in the Grass (UnSplash)