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    Fable Short Stories

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    EVA MAE BONGHANOY
    In the first document, King Midas is granted his wish by Dionysus to turn everything he touches into gold. Happy with his new power, Midas turns his daughter into a golden statue, forcing him to beg Dionysus to undo the magic. Midas learns his lesson about greed. The second document tells the story of a boy who has trouble controlling his anger. His father has him hammer a nail into the fence every time he gets angry to teach him to manage his temper. Over time, the boy learns to control his anger. The third document recounts a conversation between a mother camel and her baby. The mother explains why camels have humps, rounded feet, and long eyelashes

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    In the first document, King Midas is granted his wish by Dionysus to turn everything he touches into gold. Happy with his new power, Midas turns his daughter into a golden statue, forcing him to beg Dionysus to undo the magic. Midas learns his lesson about greed. The second document tells the story of a boy who has trouble controlling his anger. His father has him hammer a nail into the fence every time he gets angry to teach him to manage his temper. Over time, the boy learns to control his anger. The third document recounts a conversation between a mother camel and her baby. The mother explains why camels have humps, rounded feet, and long eyelashes

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    In the first document, King Midas is granted his wish by Dionysus to turn everything he touches into gold. Happy with his new power, Midas turns his daughter into a golden statue, forcing him to beg Dionysus to undo the magic. Midas learns his lesson about greed. The second document tells the story of a boy who has trouble controlling his anger. His father has him hammer a nail into the fence every time he gets angry to teach him to manage his temper. Over time, the boy learns to control his anger. The third document recounts a conversation between a mother camel and her baby. The mother explains why camels have humps, rounded feet, and long eyelashes

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    In the first document, King Midas is granted his wish by Dionysus to turn everything he touches into gold. Happy with his new power, Midas turns his daughter into a golden statue, forcing him to beg Dionysus to undo the magic. Midas learns his lesson about greed. The second document tells the story of a boy who has trouble controlling his anger. His father has him hammer a nail into the fence every time he gets angry to teach him to manage his temper. Over time, the boy learns to control his anger. The third document recounts a conversation between a mother camel and her baby. The mother explains why camels have humps, rounded feet, and long eyelashes

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    The Midas touch

    In ancient Greek, there was a king named Midas. He had a lot of gold and everything he needed. He also had a
    beautiful daughter. Midas loved his gold very much, but he loved his daughter more than his riches.

    One day, a satyr named Silenus got drunk and passed out in Midas’ rose garden. Believing that Satyrs always bring
    good luck, Midas lets Silenus rest in his palace until he is sober, against the wishes of his wife and daughter. Silenus
    is a friend of Dionysus, the god of wine and celebration. Upon learning Midas’ kindness towards his friend, Dionysus
    decides to reward the keg.

    When asked to wish for something, Midas says “I wish everything I touch turns to gold”. Although Dionysus knew it
    was not a great idea, he granted Midas his wish.

    Happy that his wish was granted, Midas went around touching random things in the garden and his palace and
    turned them all into gold. He touched an apple, and it turned into a shiny gold apple. His subjects were astonished
    but happy to see so much gold in the palace.

    In his happiness, Midas went and hugged his daughter, and before he realized, he turned her into a lifeless, golden
    statue! Aghast, Midas ran back to the garden and called for Dionysus. He begged the god to take away his power
    and save his daughter. Dionysus gives Midas a solution to change everything back to how it was before the wish.
    Midas learned his lesson and lived the rest of his life contended with what he had.

    Controlling anger

    There was once a young boy who had problem controlling his temper. When he became angry, he would just say
    anything that came to his mind and hurt people. So his father gave him a bag of nails and a hammer and said,
    “Every time you get angry, hammer one nail into the fence in our backyard”.

    The first few days the boy hammered so many nails that he emptied half the bag. Over the weeks, the number of
    nails he hammered to the fence reduced and gradually, his temper was much in control. Then came a day when he
    didn’t lose his temper at all. His father asked him to remove one nail each day that he manages not to lose his
    temper.

    Finally, on the day the child was removing the last nail, his father says, “You have done well, boy. But do you see the
    holes in the wall? The fence is never going to be the same, even after repainting. Likewise, when you say mean
    things in anger, you will leave a scar in the person’s mind, as the nails did to the fence”.

    The camel and the baby

    One day, a camel and her baby were chatting. The baby asked, “Mother, why do we have humps?” The mother
    replied, “Our humps are for storing water so that we can survive in the desert”.

    “Oh”, said the child, “and why do we have rounded feet mother?” “Because they are meant to help us walk
    comfortably in the desert. These legs help us move around in the sand.”

    “Alright. But why are our eyelashes so long?” “To protect our eyes from the desert dust and sand. They are the
    protective covers for the eyes”, replied the mother camel.

    The baby camel thought for a while and said, “So we have humps to store water for desert journeys, rounded
    hooves to keep us comfortable when we walk in the desert sand, and long eyelashes to protect us from sand and
    dust during a desert storm. Then what are we doing in a zoo?” The mother was dumbfounded.

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