There was a king who was willing to pay a thousand pieces of gold for a horse that could run a thousand li without stopping. However, he tried in vain for three years to find such a steed.
Lord Zou Ji of the state of Qi was six feet tall and a fine figure of a man. One morning he dressed himself smartly, and studied himself in the mirror.
A girl in one of the workshops by the river was too poor to buy oil for the lamp; so the other girls decided to drive her away.
In the state of Chu, a man who had held a sacrifice gave the goblet of sacrificial wine to his stewards.
The King of Wei decided to invade Handan, the capital of the state of Zhao.
A clam was opening its shell to bask in the sun when a snipe pecked at it. The mussel clamped down on the bird’s beak, and held it fast.
An old woman was friendly with her neighbor, a young wife, whose mother-in-law suspected her of stealing some meat and wanted to drive her away.