Korean Tale
Miss Mole’s Husband
The tale of a mole searching far and wide for the world’s most worthy husband for his daughter. His new son-in-law surprises not only the mole, but it will surprise you as well!
One humid sunny afternoon, a painted turtle was resting on the riverbank when she saw something floating downstream. It wasn’t clear what it was. She took another look and saw that it was a banana tree.
She was overjoyed at such a treasure, because she was an avid gardener. She jumped into
She met a long-tailed monkey on
“Sure, I’ll help. But I’ll also want half of the tree’s fruit in return,” said the monkey, who was a little lazy, a little greedy and he thought he was more than a little smart.
The turtle agreed and so, tugging and toiling, puffing and huffing, together they pulled
“Alright, let’s plant the tree and when the bananas are ripe and ready, we’ll divide them as we agreed,” suggested the turtle.
Well, the impatient little monkey didn’t want to wait for his share. He demanded that the turtle give him half of the tree Right! Now! He even jumped up and down to show he was serious.
The turtle reluctantly divided the tree