Part 35 (2/2)

_Unsatisfactory; score 0._ Type (1), incorrect generalization: ”Not to go with people you don't know.” ”Not to be selfish.” ”To share your food.” ”Look before you leap.” ”Not to listen to evil.” ”Not to steal.” ”Teaches honesty.” ”Not to covet.” ”Think for yourself.” ”Teaches wisdom.” ”Never listen to advice.”

”Never let any one get ahead of you.” ”To figure out what they are going to do.” ”Never try to do two things at once.” ”How to get what you want.”

Type (2), very crude interpretation stated in terms of the concrete situation: ”Not to sing before you eat.” ”Not to hold a thing in your mouth; eat it.” ”To eat a thing before you think of your beauty.” ”To swallow it before you sing.” ”To be on your watch when you have food in your mouth.”

Type (3), irrelevant responses: ”The fox was greedy.” ”The fox was slicker than what the crow was.” ”The crow ought not to have opened her mouth.” ”The crow should just have shaken her head.”

”It served the crow right for stealing the meat.” ”The fox wanted the meat and just told the crow that to get it.”

”Foolishness.” ”Guess that's where the old fox got his name--'Old Foxy'--Don't teach us anything.”

Type (4), efforts to repeat the story.

Type (5), inability to respond.

(d) _The Farmer and the Stork_

_Full credit; score 2._ ”You are judged by the company you keep.” ”Teaches us to keep out of bad company.” ”Birds of a feather flock together.” ”If you go with bad people you are counted like them.” ”We should choose our friends carefully.”

”Don't go with bad people.” ”Teaches us to avoid the appearance of evil.”

_Half credit; score 1._ ”The stork should not have been with the cranes.” ”Teaches him not to go with robbers.” ”Don't go with people who are not of your nation.” ”Not to follow others.”

_Unsatisfactory; score 0._ Type (1), incorrect generalization: ”Not to steal.” ”Not to tell lies.” ”Not to give excuses.” ”A poor excuse is better than none.” ”Not to trust what people say.” ”Not to listen to excuses.” ”Not to harm animals that do no harm.” ”To have pity on others.” ”Not to be cruel.” ”To be kind to birds.” ”Not to blame people for what they don't do.”

”Teaches that those who do good often suffer for those who do evil.” ”To tend to your own business.” ”Not to meddle with other people's things.” ”Not to trespa.s.s on people's property.” ”Not to think you are so nice.” ”To keep out of mischief.”

Type (2), very crude interpretations in concrete terms: ”Taught the stork to look where it stepped and not walk into a trap.”

”Taught the stork to keep out of the man's field.” ”Not to take the seeds.”

Type (3), irrelevant responses: ”The farmer was right; storks do eat grain.” ”Served the stork right, he was stealing too.” ”He should try to help the stork out of the field.”

Type (4), efforts to repeat the story.

Type (5), inability to reply.

(e) _The Miller, His Son, and the Donkey_

_Full credit; score 2._ ”When you try to please everybody you please n.o.body.” ”Don't listen to everybody; you can't please them all.” ”Don't take every one's advice.” ”Don't try to do what everybody tells you.” ”Use your own judgment.” ”Have a mind of your own.” ”Make up your mind and stick to it.” ”Don't be wishy-washy.” ”Have confidence in your own opinions.”

_Half credit; score 1._ Interpretations which are generalized but somewhat inferior: ”Never take any one's advice” (too sweeping a conclusion). ”Don't take foolish advice.” ”Take your own advice.” ”It teaches us that people don't always agree.”

Correct idea but not generalized: ”They were fools to listen to everybody.” ”They should have walked or rode just as they thought best, without listening to other people.”

_Unsatisfactory; score 0._ Type (1), incorrect generalization: ”To do right.” ”To do what people tell you.” ”To be kind to old people.” ”To be polite.” ”To serve others.” ”Not to be cruel to animals.” ”To have sympathy for beasts of burden.” ”To be good-natured.” ”Not to load things on animals that are small.”

”That it is always better to leave things as they are.” ”That men were not made for beasts of burden.”

Type (2), very crude interpretations stated in concrete terms: ”Not to try to carry the donkey.” ”That walking is better than riding.” ”The people should have been more polite to the old man.” ”That the father should be allowed to ride.”

Type (3), irrelevant responses: ”The men were too heavy for the donkey.” ”They ought to have stayed on and they would not have fallen into the stream.” ”It teaches about a man and he lost his donkey.”

Type (4), efforts to repeat the story.

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