When choosing gifts, children usually think that bigger is better and, subsequently, go for the biggest box with the biggest bow. Yet Andrew Lang’s translation of Charles Perrault’s “Puss in Boots“ demonstrates that a gift’s minuscule size doesn’t always do justice to its superior character.
When a miller dies, he bequeaths a gift to each of his sons. The eldest gets the mill, the second eldest gets the donkey, and the youngest receives a cat.
