Reading Notes Part A: Bidpai: The Rustic and the Nightingale

A Rose Bush: Source 

The Rustic takes pride in his garden and takes very good care of it. The nightingale comes to his garden daily and picks at the rose pedals off, ripping them to pieces. This really upsets the rustic because he loves his garden and he is eager to capture this bird. When he captures the nightingale, he plans to keep it captured for a long time. The bird asks him if the picking of the flower pedals are enough of a reason to punish it until it dies. The rustic rethinks his decision, and decides to let the bird go. The bird rewards him with a pot of gold for his good deed. I liked how the nightingale said that the Rustic would suffer more if he knew that he would be the reason behind its capture and death if he decided to go through with it. This story teaches how important forgiveness can be and how we shouldn't be angry for things that slightly inconvenience us because it will leave us more hurt in the long run. 

Bibliography: The Tortoise and the Geese and Other Fables of Bidpai by Maude Barrows Dutton, with illustrations by E. Boyd Smith, 1908.


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