Reading Notes, The Banyan Deer
Bibliography: Ellen C. Babbitt, The Banyan Deer
-There was a deer the color gold. His eyes were round jewels, horns white as silver, mouth red like a flower, and his hoofs bright and hard. Had a large body and a fine tail.
-He lived in a forest and was king of a herd of five hundred deer called Banyans. Near by, there was another herd called the monkey deer, who had a king as well.
-The king was fond of hunting the deer and eating deer meat. He never wanted to go alone so he would invite people of the town to go with him.
-No one did their work, so they decided to make a park and drive the deer into it. Then the king could go into the park and hunt and they could go on with their daily work.
-The made a park with grass and provided water for the Deer. Built a fence for them as well.
-The king went at once to look at the Deer. First he saw there the two Deer kings, and granted them their lives.
-Some days the king would go to hunt the Deer, sometimes his cook would go. As soon as any of the Deer saw them they would have fear and run.
-The King of the Banyan Deer sent for the King of the Monkey Deer and said, "Friend, many of the Deer are being killed. Many are wounded besides those who are killed. Fewer Deer will be lost this way."
-Each day the Deer whose turn it was would go and lie down, placing its head on the block. The cook would come and carry off the one he found lying there.
-One day the lot fell to a mother Deer who had a young baby. "King of the Banyan Deer! did I not grant you your life? Why are you lying here?"
-"O great King!" said the King of the Banyan Deer, "a mother came with her young baby and told me that the lot had fallen to her. I could not ask any one else to take her place, so I came myself."
-"King of the Banyan Deer! I never saw such kindness and mercy. Rise up. I grant your life and hers. Nor will I hunt any more the Deer in either park or forest."
(I used some straight sentences from the story to write my notes)
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