Stories

See that duckling bobbing down and up on the water? That bird bit my [knee! Ow!] (resembles duckling swimming - feather atop head, beak facing right).
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Dyeing silk red, I look up from my work and explain, "It takes years to [hone g]ood dyeing skills."
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I *scoop* up [dung] - not BAMBOO's <EQUAL> when it comes to burning - so we'll have to wait longer for it to heat the temple.
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I [si]t in the temple with my forehead down within an inch 寸 of the earth 土.
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[You 'n] I WALK <far>, stopping only to *scoop up* permafrost SOIL, in search of ICE to put in our MOUTHs.
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[You 'n] I dig in the earth and put the ice we find in our mouths.
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My son [wan]ted to commit the crime at night rather than during the day, thinking he'd be exempt from getting caught and punished.
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For holding someone at knifepoint in the middle of the night, he must be punished. [Me 'n] my son are close, but he is not exempt from this valley.
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The key is metal, like a spoon, I say, looking up at my tea[cher]. I am [shi] of that.
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[Yow]za, that music's beautiful, I think. With a key, I open my safe and take out money to put down for my very own flute.
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The three musicians gather and put mouths to flutes. Have you ever traveled down south to hear them? (The bottom part resembles a pan flute.)
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I'm down with cultivating a heavy type of grain in the valley. Does the ju[dge own g]ood land for this?
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