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Extra Credit Reading: Canterbury Tales, Part B

Story source: The Chaucer Story Book by Eva March Tappan (1908).

The second part of the Canterbury Tales were a little more tricky. In the first story there was the fox that tricked the rooster to sing to catch him off guard so he could take him and in the second story the canon tricked the priest real bad by making him think he could be a philosopher and giving him false hope. These stories were very descriptive. My favorite was the description of the rooster. I would like to meet this beautiful creature. 

These stories were longer and split up into smaller parts. I think this helped to be more detailed in the stories. They had more background, buildup. There were other stories thrown into the larger story. For example when the rooster had the bad dream and then there were a couple other stories about people who had bad dreams and they came true. Then the story went back to the rooster and its dream came true too. 
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