Young Man and Bamboo Trees

Abstract

This story is new to me. A young man builds a house and plants a garden with vegetables that grow vigorously. His eye falls on the bamboo trees surrounding his garden. Since he finds them useless, he cuts them all down. Now the local animals can see into his garden, and they invade the garden at night to eat his vegetables. In "Teachings obtained from this tale" we find "Naturally, all things are inherently useful." The page for this moral includes an outline of a major character from the story and a colored model to use in coloring in this outline. The outside front-cover has a symbol for Green Life publishing, and the inside front-cover repeats that along with a symbol for Green Ocean paper. The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book; that symbol appears 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".