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The Five Chinese Brothers
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The Five Chinese Brothers

A Chinese fairy-tale, retold by Claire Huchet Bishop

“Characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity. That too is a great advantage of the folk tale. It is not a failure of imagination to see the sky blue. It is a failure rather to be weary of its being blue- and not to notice how blue it is. And appreciation of the subtler colors of the sky will come la…

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