There was a man who used to steal a chicken from his neighbours every day.
Playing Go is a minor art; yet even so, you must give your whole attention to it to learn it.
Two shepherd boys, Gu and Zang, went out together with their flocks and both of them lost their sheep.
When Zhuang Zi had no money, he went to the Lord Keeper of the River to borrow some grain.
A frog inhabiting a crumbling well boasted to an ocean turtle: “Behold my paradise! I leap upon mossy ledges, bathe in sun-warmed waters, rest in crevices — no creature rivals my joy! Would you not enter my domain?”
A sea-gull alighted in a suburb of the capital of Lu. The Marquis of Lu welcomed it and feasted it in the temple hall, ordering the royal music and grandest sacrifices for it.