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Week 5 story: Percy, greatest marksman in all the land, he who can strike down two great beasts with a single blow

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 Percy, greatest marksman in all the land,  he who can strike down two great beasts with a single blow  Link Al, Ray, and Percy, three farm hands, were chucking rocks at the field mice. Percy grabs the closest rock to him and takes real careful aim. He closes one eye and raises his thumb to be in line with his target, then he closed his other eye, adjusted his aim a bit, and then hurled the rock with full force through the air. Percy, with both eyes still shut, asks “did I hit em”. Both Al and Ray were in bewilderment, for not only did Percy hit a mouse, he managed to strike down two with a single blow. Al and Ray cheered at the site of the two mice struck down by Percy’s rock. Al said to Percy “you are the champion of rock throwing, the greatest marksman in all the land”. Ray laughed as soon as he heard that and chimed in himself “Percy, greatest marksman in all the land, he who can strike down two great beasts with a single blow”. Both Al and Ray were cracki...

extra credit reading notes: persian tales part a

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   out of control man with a horse Link a wolf cleverly stole the children of a goat. the goat went to rescue her children and demanded that they fight for them. They each took some time to prepare for the fight. The goat gathered up a bag full of fine butters and cheeses, and gave it to somebody to sharpen her horns. The wolf filled a bag with air, so it looked like it was full, and gave it to somebody to sharpen his teeth, but instead, the dentist pulled out all of his teeth and replaced them with cotton, that looked sharp. The goat was able to outsmart the wolf, kill him, and get her kids back. A girl went to market to buy some ointment for two eggs, but she supposedly lost the eggs and started describing what sounded like some crazy fever dream, the more it went the more she lost, and the crazier and crazier ways she went about finding it. sounded like me when I'm really trying to embellish a story. A man had a wife and seven children, and they were all strugglin...

reading notes: twenty-two goblins part a

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 Ak, the goblin king Link a king was tasked to retrieve a body that was hanging from a tree. The king went to do this and he cut the body down from the tree. The body made a noise when he did this, but when the king went to check, it was only a goblin that was inside of the body. as the king was carrying the body to wear it needed to go, the goblin offered to tell him a story for their journey. there were three men who all wanted to marry this one beautiful lady. she agreed to marry one of them, but died before she could make her decision. one of the men became a monk, and through his wanderings he found a way to bring the dead back to life.The monk brought the girl back to life, but each brother thought that they had claim to her, for they also helped. the goblin asked the king who should get her, and the king said the one who slept with her ashes, that is what a husband would do. it ends by saying that great minded people do not waiver until they keep their promises, eve...