The Crow and the Mussel

Abstract

This is the story of the deceptive second bird who counsels a first bird to drop his prey from a height in order to crack its shell. The second bird waits below and eats the mussel, whose shell has been broken, before the first bird can fly down to eat it himself. The stated moral is "Don't believe those who pretend to do good deeds only for theie [sic] own profit." The moral page adds to a standard picture of a child reflecting four images from this particular story. The editors continue to struggle with English grammar in this series. The front-cover on both sides has symbols for Green Life publishing, Green Ocean paper, and yessoy ink. The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; it is repeated three times. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover. The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".