"In a small country town in China there lived a great scholar named Kno Tzu Chien. This sage was an authority upon the old classics, and he also loved the folklore and fairy tales of ancient China. On winter evenings the home of this greatly loved scholar was a popular gathering place, and many of the old folks, from near and far, came and told folk tales that had been told to them in their youth- tales of old China that had been handed down from generation to generation in the same way -told at the firesides. Kno Tzu Chien presided over all these gatherings, (which might be called "Chinese...