To be honest, some of these stories I found to be extremely boring. But there were a few that I liked. The first is called "The King, the Falcon, and the Drinking Cup." In this story a king got separated from his company while hunting and grew thirsty. So he tried to drink from a stream but every time he raised the cup to his lips, a falcon came and knocked it away. Eventually the king grew so angry that he killed the falcon. When he sent someone to obtain water from the source of the spring, he found that poison was leaking into the spring, so the falcon actually saved his life. The second story that I liked was "The Merchant and His Iron." In this story I wonder if the merchant actually did anything to his friends son or was just lying about it. The third story I liked is called "The Ass, the Lion, and the Fox." In this story the Lion is ill and the only way he can be cured is if he ate the ears, and heart of an ass. The Fox didn't want the Lion to be ill as he ate the leftovers of the Lions prey, so he tricked the Ass to come near the Lion, and then once the Lion had slaughtered him, the Fox ate the ass's ears and heart himself.
Bibliography: The Tortoise and the Geese, and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Dutton
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