Farfar’s Farfetched Fables

Good Jan Kanty escorts Joseph and his family to their new lodgings and finds the perfect job for Joseph's father.

The mysterious scholar-priest Jan Kanty takes Joseph and family into his care.

After saving Elzbietka from the savage dog, Joseph goes with her and her uncle to see their humble dwelling.  Meanwhile, out in the marketplace, Pan Andrew and wife are being accosted by a band of charlatans.  Just in time, a mysterious stranger comes to their rescue.

Joseph and his father and mother enter the city, only to hear bad news.  Joseph wanders through the city and rescues a wise man and his beautiful niece.

Traveling along the road to Krakow, a small family is accosted by a stranger who pretends to be their friend, but instead tries to take their pumpkin by force.

Ancient Oath of the Krakow Trumpter "I swear on my honor as a Pole, as a servant of the King of the Polish people, that I will faithfully and unto the death, if there be need, sound upon the trumpet the Heynal in honor of Our Lady each hour in the tower of the church which bears Her Name."

Rat, Mole, Badger and Toad make a daring raid to retake Toad Hall from the invasive Weasels.  Toad emerges a changed er, Toad.

Toad tries to return to his ancestral home to find it has been invaded by weasels and stoats.  He and his friends formulate a plan to take the castle back.  But will they?

Recently escaped from jail, Mr. Toad goes back to his old ways that landed him in jail in the first place.  Some toads never learn!

With the help of a kind-hearted gaoler's daughter, Toad makes a daring escape from prison, hops a train and disappears into the wood...

With Fall getting on and many friends headed South, the Water Rat begins to feel a bit of wanderlust himself and is visited by a Seafaring Rat who encourages him to travel.

Rat and Mole go looking for a missing youngster and encounter a mystical Being.

Toad's friends attempt an intervention to prevent him from harming himself and others.  But he eludes them to his own sorrow.

Returning from a day of adventuring with Otter, the Mole senses that his underground home is nearby and suddenly get homesick.  

The conclusion of the last chapter left Mole and Rat shivering in the cold outside the subterranean residence of Mr. Badger.  In this episode, they spend a bit of time with the slumbering creature and also are visited by a couple of hedge hogs and the ever exuberant Otter.

Mole goes for a stroll.  Rat takes a nap.  Badger almost makes an appearance.

Mole and his friend the River Rat go to visit Toad in his mansion.  Toad takes them on one of his Wild Adventures.

In this first episode of the classic tale by Kenneth Grahame we meet the small creatures that live by the river:  Mole, Rat, Otter and for a brief moment Badger.  This is a story of friendship and the adventures of a group of friends as diverse as nature itself.

Paul's Final Exploits.  Paul accidentally digs the Grand Canyon, starts his own lumber mill, and finally retires deep in the woods of the Great Northwest with his faithful Moose Terrier Elmer.

Readings from the Lectionary 1 Samuel 3:3-10,19 Psalm 40 1 Corinthians 13-15, 17-20 The Gospel According to St John 1:35-42

"How Paul spends his Summers" might be the subtitle of this episode.  As with all things Paul Bunyan, when things go wrong they go wrong in a BIG way!  This episode is spiced with special guest voices Daffy Duck and Groucho Marx.

After the greatest logging season on record and after surviving the winter of the blue snow it's time for Paul and company to close down the Red River camp and head back east.  But not before cleaning up and having a big Sunday dinner.

Today we hear how hundreds of years before Christ was born the prophet Isaiah foretold that kings from the East would come bearing gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh; gifts recalling that Christ is Prophet, Priest and King. The Gospel of Matthew then tells of the fulfillment of that prophecy as the wise men followed the Star of Bethlehem, looking for the newborn King of Israel. Not everyone wel...

Winter that lasts two years, bone chilling temperatures, snow snakes and frostbiters all add up to tough times for Paul and his Onion River campers.  Paul takes a walk to China across the frozen Pacific Ocean.