Labels:bird | book | bulletin board | lodestone | reckoner OCR: monk lived in solitude beside temple on the side of mountain. It was a small temple, and the monk was a young monk and the mountain was not the most beautiful or impressive mountain in Japan The monk tended the temple, and he passed his days in peace and quiet until the day that fox and badger passed the temple and spied the monk hoeing the little plot of yams which fed him for much of the year The badger looked at the monk and the temple, and he said "Let us make a wager. Whichever of us succeeds in driving that man from the temple will keep the place asa home; for it has been many years since pilgrims or travellers came to this temple, andit will be a finer place by far to live than a badger's se ora fox's den. And the fox smiled with her sharp teeth, and I blinked her green eyes and she ...
