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Vocabulary: Complain
Whose Child Is It?
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Genre: PhilosophicalSetting: MedievalNew Vocabulary: Adviser, Breastfeed, Complain, Give birth, Lie, Midwife, Miserable, Real (true), Smother, Split in two, WhoseWord Count: 857Original Author: Fairy TalesTwo women come to the king with a baby. Both say that the baby is theirs. Who is the real mother? The king must decide.
You Can’t Please Everyone
‘Why do you have a donkey, but you don’t ride it? Donkeys should be ridden.’ So the man said to his son, ‘Get on the donkey and ride it.’ They kept on going. A few hours later, a group of old women walked past. ‘Look at that lazy young boy,’ said one of the women. ‘Shame on him! He makes his father walk while he rides. His father should ride on the horse.’