A monkey stole the queen's jewels when the servant fell asleep. The chief guard played a trick to find out if a girl monkey stole the pearls. The guard found out the monkey stole the jewels.
There were three fish named thoughtful, very-thoughtful, and thoughtless. They lived near a town but very-thoughtful wanted to leave cause he did not want to be captured by fishermen. Thoughtful and thoughtless were captured, but very-thoughtful saved them and they got away.
A wolf wanted to eat some rats. The wolf acted like he could not walked on his front legs and that he only needed to eat air to survive. The rats would visit the wolf and the wolf would eat the last one of them. The chief rat found out what the wolf was doing though and the rats stopped going to the wolf.
A golden goose gave his feathers to a poor woman with two daughters. But the woman decided to try and take all of the feathers from the goose. All of the feathers were plucked and they turned into regular feathers.
A king gave a holiday to the people in his city. The king's gardener got the monkeys to water the trees so he could enjoy the holiday. The monkeys pulled up all of the trees' roots so they could be sure that the trees had water.
A man tried to play dead so he could kill an animal and eat it, but a king wolf saw his trick and made sure none of the animals were fooled by it.
A monkey was eating some peas, but he dropped one. He then dropped all of his other peas to find the one pea he lost, but he could not find it. Then he was left with no peas. A king saw this and decided to not throw away his kingdom in pursuit of something lesser and he went back home.
A wolf wanted to give a fish to his mate, so he tricked some otters into giving him half of their fish.
Bibliography: More Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt, 1922
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