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He instructs the innkeeper not to say “beat me” to the stick. The innkeeper does, however, and the stick whacks him until he gives the boy back the donkey and tablecloth he stole. CONNECTIONS. Deceit. Donkeys. Dragons. Gifts. Innkeepers. Kindness to animals. Magical objects. Mothers and sons. Punishment. Rewards. Secrets. Snakes. Sticks. Tablecloth. Thieves. Transformation. Uygur People, stories from. WHERE ELSE THIS STORY APPEARS. L. Ashliman, Folktexts, Online. HOW ELSE THIS STORY IS TOLD. Three Treasures— Emily Ching and Ko-Shee Ching, Golden Needles; Three Treasures.

CONNECTIONS. Compassion. Fear. Gratitude. Healing. Heilongjiang River. Helpfulness. Hezhen People, stories from. Hunters. Kindness from animals. Kindness to animals. Songhua River. Thorns. Three-River-Mouth. Tigers. 35. The Tiger General Wolfram Eberhard, Folktales of China. China One day a woodcutter hears whimpering and finds a tigress in labor. Her entrails have caught on thorns. She seems to be pleading for help. He runs to his mother, a midwife, who tells him they must dip the entrails in wine.

Feeling sorry for the animals, Talltree asks his father if he may invite first some ants on board and then, mosquitoes. Father-tree agrees to ants and mosquitoes, but he is quiet about the boy Talltree also brings on board. They all disembark at an island high above the water; the ants and the mosquitoes thank Talltree and go their own way. Talltree and the boy find an old woman and two girls there. They work for the old woman, and when they grow up, she decides the most skillful young man should marry her real daughter and the other her adopted daughter.

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