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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aesop's Fables, by Aesop
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+Title: Aesop's Fables
+       A New Revised Version From Original Sources
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+Author: Aesop
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+Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and Ernest Griest
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+ÆSOP'S FABLES
+
+A NEW REVISED VERSION
+
+FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+BY
+HARRISON WEIR,[A] JOHN TENNIEL, ERNEST GRISET
+AND OTHERS
+
+NEW YORK
+FRANK F. LOVELL & COMPANY
+142 AND 144 WORTH STREET
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1884,
+BY R. WORTHINGTON.
+
+[Transcriber's note A: Original had "WIER".]
+
+
+
+LIFE OF ÆSOP.
+
+
+The Life and History of Æsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most
+famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia;
+Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and
+Cotiæum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the
+distinction of being the birthplace of Æsop. Although the honor thus
+claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet
+there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as
+established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. He
+is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the
+year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned
+by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and
+Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his
+learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient
+republics of Greece was the permission to take an active interest in
+public affairs; and Æsop, like the philosophers Phædo, Menippus, and
+Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a
+servile condition to a position of high renown. In his desire alike to
+instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and
+among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia,
+the great patron in that day, of learning and of learned men. He met at
+the court of Crœsus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is
+related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the
+conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an
+expression which has since passed into a proverb, "μᾶλλον ὁ Φρύξ"--"The
+Phrygian has spoken better than all."
+
+On the invitation of Crœsus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was
+employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of
+state. In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different
+petty republics of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at
+another in Athens, endeavoring, by the narration of some of his wise
+fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the
+administration of their respective rulers, Pariander and Pisistratus.
+One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of
+Crœsus, was the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi
+with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so
+provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and
+sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment,
+accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as
+ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. This cruel death of Æsop
+was not unavenged. The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of
+calamities, until they made a public reparation of their crime; and "The
+blood of Æsop" became a well-known adage, bearing witness to the truth
+that deeds of wrong would not pass unpunished. Neither did the great
+fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory
+at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek
+sculptors. Phædrus thus immortalizes the event:--
+
+  Æsopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici,
+  Servumque collocarunt æterna in basi:
+  Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;
+  Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam.
+
+These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of
+certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of Æsop. They were
+first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of
+ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac,
+who declined the honor of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his
+desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He published his
+life of Æsop, Anno Domini 1632. The later investigations of a host of
+English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by
+M. Mezeriac. The substantial truth of his statements has been confirmed
+by later criticism and inquiry.
+
+It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the
+life of Æsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of
+Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine
+Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the
+fourteenth century. His life was prefixed to all the early editions of
+these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall
+as the introduction to his edition of Æsop. This life by Planudes
+contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd
+pictures of the grotesque deformity of Æsop, of wondrous apocryphal
+stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now
+universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. It is given up
+in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest
+credit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+ÆSOP'S FABLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Wolf Turned Shepherd.
+
+
+A wolf, finding that the sheep were so afraid of him that he could not
+get near them, disguised himself in the dress of a shepherd, and thus
+attired approached the flock. As he came near, he found the shepherd
+fast asleep. As the sheep did not run away, he resolved to imitate the
+voice of the shepherd. In trying to do so, he only howled, and awoke the
+shepherd. As he could not run away, he was soon killed.
+
+Those who attempt to act in disguise are apt to overdo it.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag at the Pool.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A stag saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the
+size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such weak
+feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the
+pool. The Stag betook himself to flight, and kept himself with ease at a
+safe distance from the Lion, until he entered a wood and became
+entangled with his horns. The Lion quickly came up with him and caught
+him. When too late he thus reproached himself: "Woe is me! How have I
+deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I
+gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction."
+
+What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Mask.
+
+
+A fox entered the house of an actor, and, rummaging through all his
+properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He
+placed his paws on it, and said: "What a beautiful head! yet it is of
+no value, as it entirely wants brains."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A fair face is of little use without sense.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Fox.
+
+
+A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying "that of all
+animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such
+respect for him, that he would not even touch his dead body." A Fox
+hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear: "Oh, that you would
+eat the dead and not the living!"
+
+We should not wait till a person is dead, to give him our respect.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lamb.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay
+violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the
+Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last
+year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful
+tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in
+my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted
+grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the
+Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food
+and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying:
+"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my
+imputations."
+
+The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless
+for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor
+intends to be unjust.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The One-Eyed Doe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Doe, blind of an eye, was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of
+the sea as she possibly could, to secure greater safety. She turned her
+eye towards the land, that she might perceive the approach of a hunter
+or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from which she
+entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen, sailing by, saw
+her, and, taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Said she: "O
+wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land,
+and, after all, to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety,
+so much more perilous."
+
+Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog, Cock and Fox.
+
+
+A Dog and a Cock, traveling together, took shelter at night in a thick
+wood. The Cock perched himself on a high branch, while the Dog found a
+bed at the foot of the tree. When morning dawned, the Cock, as usual,
+crowed very loudly. A Fox, hearing the sound, and wishing to make a
+breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how
+earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so sweet a
+voice.
+
+"If you will admit me," said he, "I should very much like to spend the
+day with you."
+
+The Cock said: "Sir, do me the favor to go round and wake up my porter,
+that he may open the door, and let you in." On the Fox approaching the
+tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him and quickly tore him in pieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse, by an unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance with a
+Frog. The Frog one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse
+tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog led his friend toward
+the pool in which he lived, until he reached the very brink, when
+suddenly jumping in, he dragged the Mouse in with him. The Frog enjoyed
+the water amazingly, and swam croaking about as if he had done a
+meritorious action. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated with the
+water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot
+of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it, carried it up
+aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also
+carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
+
+Harm hatch, harm catch.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Oyster.
+
+
+A Dog, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster, and opening his mouth to its
+widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to
+be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said:
+"I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything
+round must be an egg."
+
+Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherds.
+
+
+A Wolf passing by, saw some shepherds in a hut eating for their dinner a
+haunch of mutton. Approaching them, he said: "What a clamor you would
+raise, if I were to do as you are doing!"
+
+Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice
+themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Hares and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Hares, oppressed with a sense of their own exceeding timidity, and
+weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord
+determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles, by jumping
+from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. As they scampered off in
+a very numerous body to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the
+banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet, and rushed
+helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. On seeing the rapid
+disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his
+companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now
+see that other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We are encouraged by seeing others that are worse off than ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Boar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst, a Lion
+and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They
+fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon
+engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a
+sudden to take breath for the fiercer renewal of the strife, they saw
+some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should
+fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying: "It is better
+for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures, as
+will certainly happen if we are disabled."
+
+Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of
+their defeat to benefit themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Mischievous Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog used to run up quietly to the heels of those he met, and to bite
+them without notice. His master sometimes suspended a bell about his
+neck, that he might give notice of his presence wherever he went, and
+sometimes he fastened a chain about his neck, to which was attached a
+heavy clog, so that he could not be so quick at biting people's heels.
+
+The Dog grew proud of his bell and clog, and went with them all over the
+market-place. An old hound said to him: "Why do you make such an
+exhibition of yourself? That bell and clog that you carry are not,
+believe me, orders of merit, but, on the contrary, marks of disgrace, a
+public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered dog."
+
+Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Quack Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned
+physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you
+pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own
+lame gait and wrinkled skin?"
+
+Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend
+themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Ass and the Fox, having entered into a partnership together, went
+out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far, when they met a
+Lion. The Fox approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the
+capture of the Ass, if he would pledge his word that his own life should
+be spared. On his assuring him that he would not injure him, the Fox led
+the Ass to a deep pit, and contrived that he should fall into it. The
+Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox,
+and then attacked the Ass at his leisure.
+
+Traitors must expect treachery.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, being sick and maimed, called to a Sheep, who was passing, and
+asked him to fetch some water from the stream. "For," he said, "if you
+will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat."
+"Yes," said the Sheep, "if I should bring you the draught, you would
+doubtless make me provide the meat also."
+
+Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Jewel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious
+stone; on which he said: "If thy owner had found thee, and not I, he
+would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I
+have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than
+all the jewels in the world."
+
+
+
+
+The Two Pots.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware,
+and the other of brass. As they floated along on the surface of the
+stream, the Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot: "Pray keep at a distance,
+and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall
+be broken in pieces; and besides, I by no means wish to come near you."
+
+Equals make the best friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Lion.
+
+
+A Gnat came and said to a Lion: "I do not the least fear you, nor are
+you stronger than I am. For in what does your strength consist? You can
+scratch with your claws, and bite with your teeth--so can a woman in her
+quarrels. I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if
+you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer." The Gnat, having
+sounded his horn, fastened itself upon the Lion, and stung him on the
+nostrils. The Lion, trying to crush him, tore himself with his claws,
+until he punished himself severely. The Gnat thus prevailed over the
+Lion, and buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But shortly
+afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb, and was eaten
+by a spider. He greatly lamented his fate, saying: "Woe is me, that I,
+who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish
+myself from this spider."
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and her Little Maidens.
+
+
+A widow woman, fond of cleaning, had two little maidens to wait on her.
+She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
+The maidens, being aggrieved by such excessive labor, resolved to kill
+the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this,
+they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles,
+for their mistress, no longer hearing the cock, was unable to tell the
+time, and so, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
+
+Unlawful acts to escape trials only increase our troubles.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox who had never yet seen a Lion, when he fell in with him by a
+certain chance for the first time in the forest, was so frightened that
+he was near dying with fear. On his meeting with him for the second
+time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
+On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went
+up to him, and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
+
+Acquaintance softens prejudices.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Country Mouse invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a
+visit, and partake of his country fare. As they were on the bare
+plough-lands, eating their wheat-stalks and roots pulled up from the
+hedge-row, the Town Mouse said to his friend: "You live here the life of
+the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. I am surrounded with
+every luxury, and if you will come with me, as I much wish you would,
+you shall have an ample share of my dainties." The Country Mouse was
+easily persuaded, and returned to town with his friend. On his arrival,
+the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs,
+honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from
+a basket. The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such
+good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, and lamented his
+own hard fate. Just as they were beginning to eat, some one opened the
+door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole
+so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. They had
+scarcely again begun their repast when some one else entered to take
+something out of a cupboard, on which the two Mice, more frightened than
+before, ran away and hid themselves. At last the Country Mouse, almost
+famished, thus addressed his friend: "Although you have prepared for me
+so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is
+surrounded by too many dangers to please me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Better a little in safety, than an abundance surrounded by danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Dolphin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sailor, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him
+while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent
+tempest arose, in which the ship was wrecked, and he, his Monkey and all
+the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A Dolphin saw the Monkey
+contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is
+always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey
+him on his back in safety to the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with
+his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded of the
+Monkey if he were an Athenian, who answered that he was, and that he was
+descended from one of the noblest families in that city.
+
+The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Piræus (the famous harbor of
+Athens). The Monkey, supposing that a man was meant, and being obliged
+to support his previous lie, answered that he knew him very well, and
+that he was an intimate friend, who would, no doubt, be very glad to see
+him. The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under
+the water, and drowned him.
+
+He who once begins to tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make
+them appear true, and, sooner or later, they will get him into trouble.
+
+
+
+
+The Game-cocks and the Partridge.
+
+
+A Man had two Game-cocks in his poultry yard. One day, by chance, he
+fell in with a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it, and brought it
+home that it might be reared with his Game-cocks. On its being put into
+the poultry-yard, they struck at it, and followed it about, so that the
+Partridge was grievously troubled in mind, and supposed that he was
+thus badly treated because he was a stranger. Not long afterwards he saw
+the Cocks fighting together, and not separating before one had well
+beaten the other. He then said to himself: "I shall no longer distress
+myself at being struck at by these Game-cocks, when I see that they
+cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other."
+
+Strangers should avoid those who quarrel among themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Nettle.
+
+
+A Boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his mother, saying:
+"Although it pains me so much, I did but touch it ever so gently." "That
+was just it," said his mother, "which caused it to sting you. The next
+time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to
+your hand, and not in the least hurt you."
+
+Whatever you do, do with all your might.
+
+
+
+
+The Trumpeter taken Prisoner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
+He cried out to his captors: "Pray spare me, and do not take my life
+without cause or without injury. I have not slain a single man of your
+troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet."
+"That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," they
+said, "for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up
+all the other soldiers to battle."
+
+He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive.
+
+
+
+
+The Fatal Marriage.
+
+
+The Lion, touched with gratitude by the noble procedure of a Mouse, and
+resolving not to be outdone in generosity by any wild beast whatsoever,
+desired his little deliverer to name his own terms, for that he might
+depend upon his complying with any proposal he should make. The Mouse,
+fired with ambition at this gracious offer, did not so much consider
+what was proper for him to ask, as what was in the powers of his prince
+to grant; and so demanded his princely daughter, the young lioness, in
+marriage. The Lion consented; but, when he would have given the royal
+virgin into his possession, she, like a giddy thing as she was, not
+minding how she walked, by chance set her paw upon her spouse, who was
+coming to meet her, and crushed him to pieces.
+
+Beware of unequal matches. Alliances prompted by ambition often prove
+fatal.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Charger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully
+provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that
+without hard work. But when war broke out, the heavy armed soldier
+mounted the Horse, and rushed into the very midst of the enemy, and the
+Horse, being wounded, fell dead on the battle-field. Then the Ass,
+seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse,
+saying: "How much more fortunate am I than a charger. I can remain at
+home in safety while he is exposed to all the perils of war."
+
+Be not hasty to envy the condition of others.
+
+
+
+
+The Vain Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds,
+and made proclamation that, on a certain day, they should all present
+themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful
+among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched
+through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had
+fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of
+his body. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled
+before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his
+many-feathered finery. On Jupiter proposing to make him king, on account
+of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each
+plucking from him his own feathers, the Jackdaw was again nothing but a
+Jackdaw.
+
+Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
+
+
+
+
+The Milkmaid and her Pot of Milk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Maid was carrying her pail of milk to the farm-house, when she fell
+a-musing. "The money for which this milk will be sold will buy at least
+three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two
+hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for market
+when poultry will fetch the highest price; so that by the end of the
+year I shall have money enough to buy a new gown. In this dress I will
+go to the Christmas junketings, when all the young fellows will propose
+to me, but I will toss my head, and refuse them every one." At this
+moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell
+the Milk-pot to the ground, and broke into a hundred pieces, and all
+her fine schemes perished in a moment.
+
+Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Playful Ass.
+
+
+An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there,
+broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him, and quickly drove him
+down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. The Ass said:
+"Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed
+heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement."
+
+Those who do not know their right place must be taught it.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Satyr.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man and a Satyr once formed a bond of alliance. One very cold wintry
+day, as they talked together, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and
+blew on them. On the Satyr inquiring the reason, he told him that he did
+it to warm his hands. Later on in the day they sat down to eat, the food
+prepared being quite scalding. The Man raised one of his dishes towards
+his mouth and blew in it. On the Satyr again inquiring the reason, he
+said that he did it to cool the meat. "I can no longer consider you as
+a friend," said the Satyr; "a fellow who with the same breath blows hot
+and cold I could never trust."
+
+A man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.
+
+
+
+
+The Oak and the Reeds.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream.
+It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I wonder how you,
+who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong
+winds." They replied:
+
+"You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are
+destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of
+air, and therefore remain unbroken."
+
+Stoop to conquer.
+
+
+
+
+The Huntsman and the Fisherman.
+
+
+A Huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance
+with a Fisherman, bringing home a basket laden with fish. The Huntsman
+wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing
+for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the
+produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain,
+that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. A neighbor
+said to them: "If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy, by
+frequent use, the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to
+retain the fruits of his own sport."
+
+Pleasures are heightened by abstinence.
+
+
+
+
+The Mother and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As
+he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a mother
+say to her child: "Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and
+the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In
+the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child, and saying: "He
+is quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf,
+hearing these words, went home, gaping with cold and hunger.
+
+Be not in haste to believe what is said in anger or thoughtlessness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd[B] and the Wolf.
+
+A Shepherd once found a young Wolf, and brought it up, and after a while
+taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having
+shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd: "Since you have taught
+me to steal, you must keep a sharp look-out, or you will lose some of
+your own flock."
+
+The vices we teach may be practiced against us.
+
+[Transcriber's note B: Original had "Sheperd".]
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young
+ones which she had hatched. A Crow, hearing her, said: "My good friend,
+cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the number of your
+family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this
+prison-house."
+
+To enjoy our blessings we must have freedom.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and the Three Young Men.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old man was planting a tree, three young men came along and began
+to make sport of him, saying: "It shows your foolishness to be planting
+a tree at your age. The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while you
+must very soon die. What is the use of your wasting your time in
+providing pleasure for others to share long after you are dead?" The old
+man stopped in his labor and replied: "Others before me provided for my
+happiness, and it is my duty to provide for those who shall come after
+me. As for life, who is sure of it for a day? You may all die before
+me." The old man's words came true; one of the young men went on a
+voyage at sea and was drowned, another went to war and was shot, and the
+third fell from a tree and broke his neck.
+
+We should not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember that
+life is uncertain.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox entered into partnership with a Lion, on the pretense of becoming
+his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in accordance with his own
+nature and powers. The Fox discovered and pointed out the prey, the
+Lion sprang on it and seized it. The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion
+carrying off the Lion's share, and said that he would no longer find out
+the prey, but would capture it on his own account. The next day he
+attempted to snatch a lamb from the fold, but fell himself a prey to the
+huntsman and his hounds.
+
+Keep to your place, if you would succeed.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Horse had the plain entirely to himself. A Stag intruded into his
+domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to revenge himself
+on the stranger, requested a man, if he were willing, to help him in
+punishing the Stag. The man replied, that if the Horse would receive a
+bit in his mouth, and agree to carry him, he would contrive very
+effectual weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented, and allowed the
+man to mount him. From that hour he found that, instead of obtaining
+revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
+
+He who seeks to injure others often injures only himself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Dolphin.
+
+A Lion, roaming by the sea-shore, saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of
+the waves, and asked him to contract an alliance with him; saying that
+of all the animals, they ought to be the best friends, since the one was
+the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler
+of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The Dolphin gladly consented to
+this request. Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild
+bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him. The Dolphin, though quite
+willing to give him assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by
+any means reach the land. The Lion abused him as a traitor. The Dolphin
+replied: "Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving
+me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living
+upon the land."
+
+Let every one stick to his own element.
+
+
+
+
+The Mice in Council.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Mice summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means
+for obtaining notice of the approach of their great enemy the Cat. Among
+the many plans devised, the one that found most favor was the proposal
+to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, that the Mice, being warned by
+the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves in their
+holes at his approach. But when the Mice further debated who among them
+should thus "bell the Cat," there was no one found to do it.
+
+Let those who propose be willing to perform.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Arab.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him
+which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill. The poor beast
+replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that
+the level way through the desert is closed?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Game Cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farm-yard.
+One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away
+and hid himself in a quiet corner. The conqueror, flying up to a high
+wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An
+Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him, and carried him off in
+his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and
+ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery.
+
+Pride goes before destruction.
+
+
+
+
+The Boys and the Frogs.
+
+
+Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water, and
+began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of
+the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my
+boys; what is sport to you is death to us."
+
+What we do in sport often makes great trouble for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Crab and its Mother.
+
+
+A Crab said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is
+far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied:
+"Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I
+will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted
+without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
+
+Example is more powerful than precept.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherd.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf followed a flock of sheep for a long time, and did not attempt to
+injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against
+him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
+But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep, and
+did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to
+look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of
+evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he
+left the sheep entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now that he had the
+opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the
+flock. The Shepherd, on his return, finding his flock destroyed,
+exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a
+Wolf?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An evil mind will show in evil action, sooner or later.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Lion.
+
+
+A Man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began
+to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and
+prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue, carved in stone,
+which represented "A Lion strangled by a Man." The traveler pointed to
+it and said: "See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even
+the king of beasts." The Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of
+you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the man
+placed under the paw of the Lion."
+
+One story is good till another is told.
+
+
+
+
+The Ox and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ox, drinking at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs, and crushed
+one of them to death. The mother, coming up and missing one of her sons,
+inquired of his brothers what had become of him. "He is dead, dear
+mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the
+pool, and crushed him to death with his cloven heel." The Frog, puffing
+herself out, inquired, "If the beast was as big as that in size."
+"Cease, mother, to puff yourself out," said her son, "and do not be
+angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully
+imitate the hugeness of that monster."
+
+Impossible things we cannot hope to attain, and it is of no use to try.
+
+
+
+
+The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat.
+
+
+The Birds waged war with the Beasts, and each party were by turns the
+conquerors. A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always
+betook himself to that side which was the strongest. When peace was
+proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both the combatants;
+he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed
+himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night.
+
+Those who practice deceit must expect to be shunned.
+
+
+
+
+The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller.
+
+
+A Charcoal-burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met
+a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying
+that they should be far better neighbors, and that their housekeeping
+expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied: "The arrangement is
+impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you
+would immediately blacken again with your charcoal."
+
+Like will draw like.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bull, escaping from a Lion, entered a cave, which some shepherds had
+lately occupied. A He-goat was left in it, who sharply attacked him with
+his horns. The Bull quietly addressed him--"Butt away as much as you
+will. I have no fear of you, but of the Lion. Let that monster once go,
+and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat
+and a Bull."
+
+It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising
+up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse
+piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would
+be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It
+happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters,
+who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his
+roar, came up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and, setting him
+free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help
+you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but
+now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on
+a Lion."
+
+No one is too weak to do good.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Ass.
+
+
+A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Ass
+being heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said the
+Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held his peace,
+and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not long
+afterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner
+to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, thus derided him.
+"Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who art thyself
+reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?"
+
+
+
+
+The Old Hound.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to
+any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
+He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because
+of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly
+coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The
+Hound looked up and said: "It was not my fault, master; my spirit was as
+good as ever, but I could not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve
+to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am."
+
+No one should be blamed for his infirmities.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Pitcher.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water,
+flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his
+grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get
+at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but
+all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he
+could carry, and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher,
+until he brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life.
+
+Necessity is the mother of invention.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Eating Thistles.
+
+
+An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time
+of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the
+reapers to dine upon. By the way he met with a fine large Thistle, and,
+being very hungry, began to mumble it; and while he was doing so he
+entered into this reflection: "How many greedy epicures would think
+themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now
+carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and
+relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet. Let others
+choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine
+juicy thistle like this and I will be content."
+
+Every one to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one
+man's poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may
+be valued very highly by another.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his
+lair. A Lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from
+him. The Wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed: "You have
+unrighteously taken from me that which was mine." The Lion jeeringly
+replied: "It was righteously yours, eh? Was it the gift of a friend, or
+did you get it by purchase? If you did not get it in one way or the
+other, how then did you come by it?"
+
+One thief is no better than another.
+
+
+
+
+The King's Son and the Painted Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A King who had one only son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream in
+which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid lest
+the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace, and
+adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals of the
+size of life, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young
+Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and
+standing near the lion, he thus spoke: "O you most detestable of
+animals! through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his
+sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a
+girl. What shall I now do to you?" With these words he stretched out his
+hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches that
+he might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles pierced his
+finger, and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince
+fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which
+he died not many days after.
+
+We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
+
+
+
+
+The Trees and the Axe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to provide
+him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gave
+him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle
+to his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes
+the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late
+the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "The
+first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the
+ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for
+ages."
+
+In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.
+
+
+
+
+The Seaside Travelers.
+
+
+Some travelers, journeying along the sea-shore, climbed to the summit of
+a tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distance
+what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing it
+enter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked was driven by
+the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be a
+small boat, and not a ship. When, however, it reached the beach, they
+discovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of them
+said to his companions: "We have waited for no purpose, for after all
+there is nothing to see but a fagot."
+
+Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
+
+
+
+
+The Sea-gull and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sea-gull, who was more at home swimming on the sea than walking on the
+land, was in the habit of catching live fish for its food. One day,
+having bolted down too large a fish, it burst its deep gullet-bag, and
+lay down on the shore to die. A Kite, seeing him, and thinking him a
+land bird like itself, exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a
+bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea."
+
+Every man should be content to mind his own business.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Camel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The beasts of the forest gave a splendid entertainment, at which the
+Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat
+down amidst universal applause. The Camel, envious of the praises
+bestowed on the Monkey, and desirous to divert to himself the favor of
+the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn, and dance for their
+amusement. He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner, that the
+Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs, and drove him
+out of the assembly.
+
+It is absurd to ape our betters.
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Elephant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat, traveling on the highway, met a huge elephant, bearing his royal
+master and his suite, and also his favorite cat and dog, and parrot and
+monkey. The great beast and his attendants were followed by an admiring
+crowd, taking up all of the road. "What fools you are," said the Rat to
+the people, "to make such a hubbub over an elephant. Is it his great
+bulk that you so much admire? It can only frighten little boys and
+girls, and I can do that as well. I am a beast; as well as he, and have
+as many legs and ears and eyes. He has no right to take up all the
+highway, which belongs as much to me as to him." At this moment, the cat
+spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced him that he
+was not an elephant.
+
+Because we are like the great in one respect we must not think we are
+like them in all.
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman Piping.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
+sea-shore. Standing on a projecting rock he played several tunes, in the
+hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
+dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
+waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the
+sea, made an excellent haul.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the House-dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a big, well-fed Mastiff, having a wooden collar
+about his neck, inquired of him who it was that fed him so well, and yet
+compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. "The
+master," he replied. Then, said the Wolf: "May no friend of mine ever be
+in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the
+appetite."
+
+Nothing can compensate us for the loss of our liberty.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree, in
+company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you with such a
+rueful look?" "I seek," she replied, "for a mate suitable for me, and am
+not able to find one." "Take me," returned the Kite; "I am much stronger
+than you are." "Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your
+plunder?" "Well, I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my
+talons." The Eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
+Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said: "Fly off, and bring me back
+the ostrich you promised me." The Kite, soaring aloft into the air,
+brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. "Is this," said the Eagle,
+"the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?" The Kite replied:
+"That I might attain to your royal hand, there is nothing that I would
+not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the
+performance."
+
+Promises of a suitor must be taken with caution.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Hides.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river.
+Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it
+fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they
+reached the hides.
+
+Attempt not impossibilities.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman and the Little Fish
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a
+single small fish as the result of his day's labor. The fish, panting
+convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what good can I be
+to you, and how little am I worth! I am not yet come to my full size.
+Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea. I shall soon become a
+large fish, fit for the tables of the rich; and then you can catch me
+again, and make a handsome profit of me." The fisherman replied: "I
+should be a very simple fellow, if I were to forego my certain gain for
+an uncertain profit."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Purchaser.
+
+
+A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he
+should try him before he bought him. He took the Ass home, and put him
+in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which he left all the
+others, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greatest
+eater of them all. The man put a halter on him, and led him back to his
+owner, saying: "I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just such
+another as the one whom he chose for his companion."
+
+A man is known by the company he keeps.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Shepherd, driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size,
+full of acorns, and, spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbed
+up into the tree, and shook down the acorns. The sheep, eating the
+acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The Shepherd coming down, and seeing
+what was done, said: "O you most ungrateful creatures! you provide wool
+to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him
+who feeds you."
+
+The basest ingratitude is that which injures those who serve us.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, having stolen a bit of flesh, perched in a tree, and held it in
+her beak. A Fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself of the flesh, and
+by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed,
+"in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh,
+if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be
+considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully, having greater
+admiration for the meat than for the crow. But the Crow, all her vanity
+aroused by the cunning flattery, and anxious to refute the reflection
+cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw, and dropped the flesh. The Fox
+quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your
+voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting."
+
+He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it has no good purpose.
+
+
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow.
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow
+put an end to the dispute by saying: "Your feathers are all very well in
+the spring, but mine protect me against the winter."
+
+Fine weather friends are not worth much.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.
+They supposed that it must contain a great lump of gold in its inside,
+and killed it in order that they might get it, when, to their surprise,
+they found that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.
+The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived
+themselves of the gain of which they were day by day assured.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and Death.
+
+
+An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying
+the fagots into the city for sale. One day, being very wearied with his
+long journey, he sat down by the wayside, and, throwing down his load,
+besought "Death" to come. "Death" immediately appeared, in answer to his
+summons, and asked for what reason he had called him. The old man
+replied: "That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my
+shoulders."
+
+We do not always like to be taken at our word.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Leopard.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the
+two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated
+his skin. The Fox, interrupting him, said: "And how much more beautiful
+than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind."
+
+People are not to be judged by their coats.
+
+
+
+
+The Mountain in Labor.
+
+
+A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard;
+and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter.
+While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible
+calamity, out came a Mouse.
+
+Don't make much ado about nothing.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Two Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two men were traveling together, when a bear suddenly met them on their
+path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree, and concealed himself
+in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat
+on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout,
+and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance
+of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he
+will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other traveler
+descended from the tree, and, accosting his friend, jocularly inquired
+"what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear?" His friend replied: "He
+gave me this advice: Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the
+approach of danger."
+
+Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Kite.
+
+
+A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn,
+but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied:
+"Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there
+one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part
+of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them?"
+
+We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in
+adversity.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a Crane, for a large
+sum, to put her head into his throat and draw out the bone. When the
+Crane had extracted the bone, and demanded the promised payment, the
+Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely
+already a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out
+your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a Wolf."
+
+In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape
+injury for your pains.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Cock.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cat caught a Cock, and took counsel with himself how he might find a
+reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him as being a nuisance to
+men, by crowing in the night time, and not permitting them to sleep. The
+Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of
+men, that they might rise betimes, for their labors. The Cat replied:
+"Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain
+supperless;" and he made a meal of him.
+
+It does no good to deny those who make false accusations knowingly.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Horse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf coming out of a field of oats met with a Horse, and thus
+addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of
+capital oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend
+the very sound of whose teeth it will be a pleasure to me to hear." The
+Horse replied: "If oats had been the food for wolves, you would never
+have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."
+
+Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get
+credit for it.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Soldiers and the Robber.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Soldiers, traveling together, were set upon by a Robber. The one
+fled away; the other stood his ground, and defended himself with his
+stout right hand. The Robber being slain, the timid companion runs up
+and draws his sword, and then, throwing back his traveling cloak, says:
+"I'll at him, and I'll take care he shall learn whom he has attacked."
+On this, he who had fought with the Robber made answer: "I only wish
+that you had helped me just now, even if it had been only with those
+words, for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them to be
+true; but now put up your sword in its sheath and hold your equally
+useless tongue, till you can deceive others who do not know you. I,
+indeed, who have experienced with what speed you ran away, know right
+well that no dependence can be placed on your valor."
+
+When a coward is once found out, his pretensions of valor are useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Cat.
+
+
+A Monkey and a Cat lived in the same family, and it was hard to tell
+which was the greatest thief. One day, as they were roaming about
+together, they spied some chestnuts roasting in the ashes. "Come," said
+the cunning Monkey, "we shall not go without our dinner to-day. Your
+claws are better than mine for the purpose; you pull them out of the
+hot ashes and you shall have half." Pussy pulled them out one by one,
+burning her claws very much in doing so. When she had stolen them all,
+she found that the Monkey had eaten every one.
+
+A thief cannot be trusted, even by another thief.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. The pool being dried up under the
+summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As
+they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with
+water, on seeing which, one of the Frogs said to the other: "Let us
+descend and make our abode in this well." The other replied with greater
+caution: "But suppose the water should fail us, how can we get out again
+from so great a depth?"
+
+Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
+
+
+
+
+The Vine and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A
+Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine
+said: "Why do you thus injure me and crop my leaves? Is there no young
+grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for
+if you now crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide
+the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the
+sacrifice."
+
+Retribution is certain.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Boasting Rat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse lived in a granary which became, after a while, the frequent
+resort of a Cat. The Mouse was in great fear and did not know what to
+do. In her strait, she bethought herself of a Rat who lived not far
+away, and who had said in her hearing a hundred times that he was not
+afraid of any cat living. She resolved to visit the bold Rat and ask
+him to drive the Cat away. She found the Rat in his hole and relating
+her story, besought his help. "Pooh!" said the Rat, "You should be bold
+as I am; go straight about your affairs, and do not mind the Cat. I will
+soon follow you, and drive him away." He thought, now, he must do
+something to make good his boast. So he collected all the Rats in the
+neighborhood, resolved to frighten the Cat by numbers. But when they all
+came to the granary, they found that the Cat had already caught the
+foolish Mouse, and a single growl from him sent them all scampering to
+their holes.
+
+Do not rely upon a boaster.
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Fox.
+
+
+Some Dogs, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with
+their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said: "If this lion were alive, you
+would soon find out that his claws were stronger than your teeth."
+
+It is easy to kick a man that is down.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and the House-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Thief came in the night to break into a house. He brought with him
+several slices of meat, that he might pacify the House-dog, so that he
+should not alarm his master by barking. As the Thief threw him the
+pieces of meat, the Dog said: "If you think to stop my mouth, to relax
+my vigilance, or even to gain my regard by these gifts, you will be
+greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me
+more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself you have
+some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my
+master's injury. Besides, this is not the time that I am usually fed,
+which makes me all the more suspicions of your intentions."
+
+He who offers bribes needs watching, for his intentions are not honest.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A sick Stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture-ground. His
+companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each
+one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his
+use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the
+means of living.
+
+Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Fowler and the Ringdove.
+
+
+A Fowler took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied a
+Ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. He
+clapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But,
+just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trod
+upon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg that he was
+forced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. The
+poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began to
+mortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to be
+just. "Fate," said he, "has brought destruction upon me while I was
+contriving the death of another."
+
+Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Kid, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a
+Wolf. He turned round, and said to the Wolf: "I know, friend Wolf, that
+I must be your prey; but before I die, I would ask of you one favor,
+that you will play me a tune, to which I may dance." The Wolf complied,
+and while he was piping, and the Kid was dancing, the hounds, hearing
+the sound, came up and gave chase to the Wolf. The Wolf, turning to the
+Kid, said: "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher,
+should not have turned piper to please you."
+
+Every one should keep his own colors.
+
+
+
+
+The Blind Man and the Whelp.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Blind Man was accustomed to distinguish different animals by touching
+them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a
+request that he would feel it, and say what it was. He felt it, and
+being in doubt, said: "I do not quite know whether it is the cub of a
+Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf; but this I know full well, that it would
+not be safe to admit him to the sheepfold."
+
+Evil tendencies are shown early in life.
+
+
+
+
+The Geese and the Cranes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A bird-catcher came to
+ensnare them in his nets. The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at
+his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in
+their bodies, were captured.
+
+Those who are caught are not always the most guilty.
+
+
+
+
+The North Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The North Wind and the Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and
+agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a
+wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind first tried his power, and
+blew with all his might; but the keener became his blasts, the closer
+the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all
+hope of victory, he called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun
+suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his
+genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last,
+fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a stream that lay in
+his path.
+
+Persuasion is better than Force.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Laborer and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted
+a severe bite on the Cottager's infant son, of which he died, to the
+great grief of his parents. The father resolved to kill the Snake, and
+the next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, took up his axe;
+but, making too much haste to hit him as he wriggled away, missed his
+head, and cut off only the end of his tail. After some time, the
+Cottager, afraid lest the Snake should bite him also, endeavored to make
+peace, and placed some bread and salt in his hole. The Snake said:
+"There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I
+shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be
+thinking of the death of your son."
+
+It is hard to forget injuries in the presence of him who caused the
+injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Calf.
+
+
+A Bull was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a
+narrow passage which led to his stall. A young Calf came up and offered
+to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
+"Save yourself the trouble," said the Bull; "I knew that way long before
+you were born."
+
+Do not presume to teach your elders.
+
+
+
+
+The Goat and the Ass.
+
+
+A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass. The Goat, envying the Ass on account
+of his greater abundance of food, said: "How shamefully you are treated;
+at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy
+burdens;" and he further advised him that he should pretend to be
+epileptic, and fall into a deep ditch and so obtain rest. The Ass gave
+credence to his words, and, falling into a ditch, was very much bruised.
+His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice. He bade him pour upon
+the wounds the blood of a Goat. They at once killed the Goat, and so
+healed the Ass.
+
+In injuring others we are apt to receive a greater injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Boasting Traveler.
+
+
+A Man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning
+to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic things he had done
+in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said
+that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man
+of his day could leap anywhere near him--and as to that there were in
+Rhodes many persons who saw him do it, and whom he could call as
+witnesses. One of the bystanders, interrupting him, said: "Now, my good
+man, if this be all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to
+be Rhodes and now for your leap."
+
+Cure a boaster by putting his words to the test.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion.
+
+
+An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger,
+approached. He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the
+sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion)
+crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away. The Ass, observing his
+trepidation at the mere crowing of a cock, summoned courage to attack
+him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run no long
+distance when the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to
+pieces.
+
+False confidence often leads into danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag and the Fawn.
+
+
+A Stag, grown old and mischievous, was, according to custom, stamping
+with his foot, making offers with his head, and bellowing so terribly
+that the whole herd quaked for fear of him; when one of the little
+Fawns, coming up, addressed him thus: "Pray, what is the reason that
+you, who are so formidable at all other times, if you do but hear the
+cry of the hounds, are ready to fly out of your skin for fear?" "What
+you observe is true," replied the Stag, "though I know not how to
+account for it. I am indeed vigorous and able, and often resolve that
+nothing shall ever dismay my courage; but, alas! I no sooner hear the
+voice of a hound but my spirits fail me, and I cannot help making off as
+fast as my legs can carry me."
+
+The greatest braggarts are the greatest cowards.
+
+
+
+
+The Partridge and the Fowler.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fowler caught a Partridge, and was about to kill him. The Partridge
+earnestly besought him to spare his life, saying: "Pray, master, permit
+me to live, and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for
+your mercy to me." The Fowler replied: "I shall now with the less
+scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost
+of betraying your friends and relations;" and without more ado he
+twisted his neck and put him in his bag with his other game.
+
+Those who would sacrifice their friends to save themselves from harm are
+not entitled to mercy.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Stork.
+
+
+A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a
+quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped
+a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly
+besought the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray, save me, Master," he said,
+"and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity.
+Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and
+see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too at my
+feathers, they are not the least like to those of a Crane." The Farmer
+laughed aloud, and said: "It may be all as you say; I only know this, I
+have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their
+company."
+
+Birds of a feather flock together.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Driver.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and
+bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. When he was in the act of
+throwing himself over, his owner, seizing him by the tail, endeavored to
+pull him back. The Ass persisting in his effort, the man let him go,
+and said: "Conquer; but conquer to your cost."
+
+The perverse generally come to harm.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Hound
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up
+the chase. A Goat-herd, seeing him stop, mocked him, saying: "The little
+one is the best runner of the two." The hound replied; "You do not see
+the difference between us; I was only running for a dinner, but he for
+his life."
+
+Incentive spurs effort.
+
+
+
+
+The Kites and the Swans.
+
+
+The Kites of old time had, equally with the Swans, the privilege of
+song. But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted
+with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh,
+they forgot how to sing.
+
+The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present
+blessings.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog in the Manger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the
+oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. "What a
+selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he cannot eat the hay
+himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can."
+
+We should not deprive others of blessings because we cannot enjoy them
+ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Serpent.
+
+
+A Crow, in great want of food, saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and
+flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the
+Crow with a mortal wound. The Crow in the agony of death exclaimed: "O
+unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall
+the source of my certain destruction."
+
+What seem to be blessings are not always so.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As the Cat and the Fox were talking politics together, Reynard said:
+"Let things turn out ever so bad, he did not care, for he had a thousand
+tricks for them yet, before they should hurt him." "But pray," says he,
+"Mrs. Puss, suppose there should be an invasion, what course do you
+design to take?" "Nay," says the Cat, "I have but one shift for it, and
+if that won't do, I am undone." "I am sorry for you," replies Reynard,
+"with all my heart, and would gladly help you, but indeed, neighbor, as
+times go, it is not good to trust; we must even be every one for
+himself, as the saying is." These words were scarcely out of his mouth,
+when they were alarmed with a pack of hounds, that came upon them in
+full cry. The Cat, by the help of her single shift, ran up a tree, and
+sat securely among the top branches; from whence she beheld Reynard,
+who had not been able to get out of sight, overtaken with his thousand
+tricks, and torn in as many pieces by the dogs which had surrounded him.
+
+A little common sense is often of more value than much cunning.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Arrow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare, whom he
+sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw him from a place of
+concealment, took an accurate aim, and wounded him mortally. The Eagle
+gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart, and saw in that
+single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself. "It is a
+double grief to me," he exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow
+feathered from my own wings."
+
+The misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct are the hardest to
+bear.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Invited to Supper.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gentleman, having prepared a great feast, invited a Friend to supper;
+and the Gentleman's Dog, meeting the Friend's Dog, "Come," said he, "my
+good fellow, and sup with us to-night." The Dog was delighted with the
+invitation, and as he stood by and saw the preparations for the feast,
+said to himself: "Capital fare indeed! this is, in truth, good luck. I
+shall revel in dainties, and I will take good care to lay in an ample
+stock to-night, for I may have nothing to eat to-morrow." As he said
+this to himself, he wagged his tail, and gave a sly look at his friend
+who had incited him. But his tail wagging to and fro caught the cook's
+eye, who, seeing a stranger, straightway seized him by the legs, and
+threw him out the window to the street below. When he reached the
+ground, he set off yelping down the street; upon which the neighbors'
+dogs ran up to him and asked him how he liked his supper. "In faith,"
+said he, with a sorry smile, "I hardly know, for we drank so deeply,
+that I can't even tell you which way I got out."
+
+Those who enter by the back stairs must not complain if they are thrown
+out by the window.
+
+
+
+
+The Frogs Asking for a King.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to
+Jupiter entreating for a King. He, perceiving their simplicity, cast
+down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash
+occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no
+sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they
+swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so
+to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it. After some time they
+began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a
+Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set
+over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them.
+When the Frogs discovered his easy good-nature, they yet a third time
+sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another
+King. Jupiter, displeased at their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed
+upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.
+
+When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.
+
+
+
+
+The Prophet.
+
+
+A Wizard, sitting in the market-place, told the fortunes of the
+passers-by. A person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that
+the doors of his house had been broken open, and that all his goods
+were being stolen. He sighed heavily, and hastened away as fast as he
+could run. A neighbor saw him running, and said: "Oh! you follow those?
+you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not
+foresee your own?"
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and his Master's Dinner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog had been taught to take his master's dinner to him every day. As
+he smelled the good things in the basket, he was sorely tempted to taste
+them, but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day to
+carry the basket faithfully. One day all the dogs in the neighborhood
+followed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, and tried to steal the
+dinner from the basket. At first the faithful dog tried to run away
+from them, but they pressed him so close that at last he stopped to
+argue with them. This was what the thieves desired, and they soon
+ridiculed him to that extent that he said: "Very well, I will divide
+with you," and he seized the best piece of chicken in the basket, and
+left the rest for the others to enjoy.
+
+He who stops to parley with temptation, will be very likely to yield.
+
+
+
+
+The Buffoon and the Countryman.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A rich nobleman once opened the theater to the public without charge,
+and gave notice that he would handsomely reward any one who would
+produce a new amusement. A Buffoon, well known for his jokes, said that
+he had a kind of entertainment that had never been produced in a
+theater. This report, being spread about, created a great stir in the
+place, and the theater was crowded to see the new entertainment. The
+Buffoon appeared, and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so
+admirably with his voice, that the audience declared that he had a
+porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out. When
+that was done, and yet nothing was found, they cheered the actor, with
+the loudest applause. A countryman in the crowd proclaimed that he would
+do the same thing on the next day. On the morrow a still larger crowd
+assembled in the theater. Both of the performers appeared on the stage.
+The Buffoon grunted and squeaked, and obtained, as on the preceding
+day, the applause and cheers of the spectators. Next the Countryman
+commenced, and pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his
+clothes (which in truth he did), contrived to lay hold of and to pull
+his ear, when he began to squeak. The crowd, however, cried out that the
+Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation. On this the Rustic
+produced the pig, and showed them the greatness of their mistake.
+
+Critics are not always to be depended upon.
+
+
+
+
+The Boar and the Ass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind
+to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant." The Boar,
+somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to him, and told him he
+was surprised to hear him utter so impudent an untruth, and was just
+going to show his resentment by giving him a rip in the flank; but
+wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying: "Go, you
+sorry beast! I do not care to foul my tusks with the blood of so base a
+creature."
+
+Dignity cannot afford to quarrel with its inferiors.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, having fallen into a well, could find no means of escape. A Goat,
+overcome with thirst, came to the well, and, seeing the Fox, inquired if
+the water was good. The Fox, concealing his sad plight under a merry
+guise, indulged in lavish praise of the water, saying it was beyond
+measure excellent, and encouraged him to descend. The Goat, mindful only
+of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, when, just as he quenched his
+thirst, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in, and
+suggested a scheme for their common escape. "If," said he, "you will
+place your fore-feet upon the wall, and bend your head, I will run up
+your back and escape, and will help you out." On the Goat readily
+assenting to this proposal, the Fox leaped upon his back, and steadying
+himself with the goat's horns reached in safety the mouth of the well,
+and immediately made off as fast as he could. The Goat upbraided him
+with the breach of his bargain, when he turned round and cried out:
+"You foolish fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have
+hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had
+inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which
+you had determined upon no means of escape."
+
+Look before you leap.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Butchers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Oxen, once on a time, sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced
+a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to
+carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. One
+of them, an exceedingly old one (for many a field had he ploughed), thus
+spoke: "These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with
+skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we
+shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a
+double death; for you may be assured that, though all the Butchers
+should perish, yet will men never want beef."
+
+Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and his Rider.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Horse-soldier took great pains with his charger. As long as the war
+lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies, and
+fed him carefully with hay and corn. When the war was over, he only
+allowed him chaff to eat, and made him carry heavy loads of wood, and
+subjected him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. War, however,
+being again proclaimed, the Soldier put on his charger its military
+trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse
+fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden,
+and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for
+you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."
+
+He who slights his friends when they are not needed must not expect them
+to serve him when he needs them.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Hare.
+
+
+A Hound, having started a Hare on the hill-side, pursued her for some
+distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her
+life, and at another time fawning upon her, as if in play with another
+dog. The Hare said to him: "I wish you would act sincerely by me, and
+show yourself in your true colors. If you are a friend, why do you bite
+me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?"
+
+They are no friends whom you know not whether to trust or to distrust.
+
+
+
+
+The Fawn and his Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A young Fawn once said to his mother: "You are larger than a dog, and
+swifter, and more used to running; why, then, O Mother! are you always
+in such a terrible fright of the hounds?" She smiled, and said: "I know
+full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you
+mention, but yet when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to
+faint."
+
+No arguments will give courage to the coward.
+
+
+
+
+The Lark and her Young Ones.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lark had made her nest in the young green wheat. The brood had almost
+grown, when the owner of the field, overlooking his crop, said: "I must
+send to all my neighbors to help me with my harvest." One of the young
+Larks heard him, and asked his mother to what place they should move for
+safety. "There is no occasion to move yet, my son," she replied. The
+owner of the field came a few days later, and said: "I will come myself
+to-morrow, and will get in the harvest." Then the Lark said to her
+brood: "It is time now to be off--he no longer trusts to his friends,
+but will reap the field himself."
+
+Self-help is the best help.
+
+
+
+
+The Bowman and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very skillful Bowman went to the mountains in search of game. All the
+beasts of the forest fled at his approach. The Lion alone challenged him
+to combat. The Bowman immediately let fly an arrow; and said to the
+Lion: "I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I
+myself shall be when I assail thee." The Lion, thus wounded, rushed,
+away in great fear, and on a Fox exhorting him to be of good courage,
+and not to run away at the first attack, he replied: "You counsel me in
+vain, for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the
+attack of the man himself?"
+
+A man who can strike from a distance is no pleasant neighbor.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Filberts.
+
+
+A Boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many
+as he could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to pull out his hand,
+he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher, which was
+much smaller than his closed hand. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and
+yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, and bitterly
+lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him: "Be satisfied with
+half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
+
+Do not attempt too much at once.
+
+
+
+
+The Woman and her Hen.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Woman possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often
+thought with herself how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
+one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a
+double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek,
+and never once laid another egg.
+
+Covetousness overreacheth itself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lamb and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain temple. The
+Wolf called out to him and said: "The priest will slay you in
+sacrifice, if he should catch you;" on which the Lamb replied: "It would
+be better for me to be sacrificed in the temple, than to be eaten by
+you."
+
+It is safer to be among friends than enemies.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Gardener.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gardener, who lived alone, became discontented, and set out, one day,
+to seek a friend who would be a suitable companion. He had not gone far
+when he met a Bear, whom he invited to come and live with him. The Bear
+was a very silly one, who was also discontented with living alone, so he
+went home with the Gardener very willingly. The Gardener provided all
+the food, and the only service he required of the Bear was to keep the
+flies off his face while he slept in the shade. One day, a fly insisted
+upon lighting on the Gardener's face, although he was brushed off again
+and again. The silly Bear finally became so enraged that he threw a
+heavy stone upon it. He killed the fly, but, alas! he also killed his
+friend.
+
+Better have no friend at all than a foolish one.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer and the Ox.
+
+
+A Heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plough, and tormented him
+with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
+Shortly afterward, at the harvest home, the owner released the Ox from
+his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords, and led her away to the altar
+to be slain in honor of the festival. The Ox saw what was being done,
+and said to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness,
+because you were presently to be sacrificed."
+
+The lives of the idle can best be spared.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to live
+near each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Fox
+crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,
+when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provision
+for her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,
+and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering what
+had happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for her
+inability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon
+the Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were
+sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carried
+with it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned the
+spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were
+roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
+The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle.
+
+The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk and the Nightingale.
+
+
+A Nightingale, sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by a Hawk, who made a
+swoop down, and seized him. The Nightingale earnestly besought the Hawk
+to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger
+of a Hawk, who ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk said: "I
+should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready to my
+hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within
+sight."
+
+A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Swallow.
+
+
+A Hen finding the eggs of a viper, and carefully keeping them warm,
+nourished them into life. A Swallow observing what she had done, said:
+"You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when they
+shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all of us, beginning
+with yourself?"
+
+If we nourish evil, it will sooner or later turn upon us.
+
+
+
+
+The Herdsman and the Lost Bull.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Herdsman, tending kine in a forest, lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
+After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only
+discover the thief who had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb in
+sacrifice to the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as
+he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the
+Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to
+heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian
+Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but
+now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown
+Bull to the Calf I have lost, and give them both to the guardians of the
+forest, if I may only secure my own escape from this terrible Lion in
+safety."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That which we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more anxious to
+escape from, when we have succeeded in finding it.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd's Boy and Wolf.
+
+
+A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out
+the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when
+his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The
+Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really
+alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the
+Wolf is killing the sheep;" but no one paid any heed to his cries.
+
+There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk
+to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into
+the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of
+them in a single day, than the Kite could possibly pounce upon in a
+whole year.
+
+Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Cranes.
+
+
+Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plough-lands newly sown
+with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling,
+chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found
+that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice
+of it, and would not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling
+with stones, and killed a great number. They at once forsook his
+plough-lands, and cried to each other: "It is time for us to be off, for
+this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
+earnest what he can do."
+
+If words suffice not, blows must follow.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Mice.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain house was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this, made her
+way into it, and began to catch and eat them one by one. The Mice, being
+continually devoured, kept themselves close in their holes. The Cat, no
+longer able to get at them, perceived that she must tempt them forth by
+some device. For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and, suspending
+herself from it, pretended to be dead. When the Mice came near she
+pounced among them and killed a great number. Pleased with the success
+of the trick, she tried another. She whitened herself with flour, and
+lay still on the heap of bags, as though she was one of them. The young
+Mice crept dangerously near her, but an old one peeping stealthily out
+said: "Ah, my good madam, though you should turn into a real flour-bag,
+I will not come too near you."
+
+Avoid even appearances of danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and his Sons.
+
+
+A Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among
+themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,
+he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done
+so, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them in succession,
+and ordered them to break it in pieces. They each tried with all their
+strength, and were not able to do it. He next unclosed the faggot, and
+took the sticks, separately, one by one, and again put them into their
+hands, on which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these
+words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other,
+you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all attempts of your enemies;
+but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily
+as these sticks."
+
+Disunited families are easily injured by others.
+
+
+
+
+The Owl and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Owl who was sitting in a hollow tree, dozing away a summer's
+afternoon, was very much disturbed by a rogue of a Grasshopper singing
+in the grass beneath. So far from keeping quiet, or moving away at the
+request of the Owl, the Grasshopper sang all the more, and called her an
+old blinker, that only came out at night when all honest people had gone
+to bed. The Owl waited in silence for a time, and then artfully
+addressed the Grasshopper as follows: "Well, my dear, if one cannot be
+allowed to sleep, it is something to be kept awake by such a pleasant
+voice. And now I think of it, I have a bottle of delicious nectar. If
+you will come up, you shall have a drop." The silly Grasshopper, came
+hopping up to the Owl, who at once caught and killed him, and finished
+her nap in comfort.
+
+Flattery is not a proof of admiration.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Grapes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a
+trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but
+wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she
+turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying: "The
+Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."
+
+Revile not things beyond your reach.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass carrying the Image.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden
+Image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along
+made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they
+bowed their heads in token of respect for him, bristled up with pride
+and gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver,
+seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and
+said: "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men
+pay worship to an Ass."
+
+They are not wise who take to themselves the credit due to others.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Lap-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty. The Ass was
+left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any
+other Ass would. The Lap-dog was a great favorite with his master, and
+he frisked and jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see. The Ass had
+much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill, and in carrying wood from
+the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard
+fate, and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lap-dog,
+till at last one day he broke his halter, and galloped into his master's
+house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as
+well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen
+the Lap-dog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon
+it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his
+back. The servants hearing the strange hubbub, and perceiving the danger
+of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his
+stable, with kicks, and clubs, and cuffs. The Ass, beaten nearly to
+death, thus lamented: "I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not
+have been contented to labor with my companions, and not try to live by
+idleness?"
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of
+her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering
+near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give
+him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air. "I will give
+you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to
+fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons, he carried
+her almost to the clouds,--when suddenly letting her go, she fell on a
+lofty mountain, and dashed her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed
+in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I
+to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the
+earth?"
+
+If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
+
+
+
+
+The Porcupine and the Snakes.
+
+
+A Porcupine, wanting to shelter himself, desired a nest of Snakes to
+give him admittance into their cave. They were prevailed upon, and let
+him in accordingly; but were so annoyed with his sharp prickly quills
+that they soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the
+Porcupine to withdraw, and leave them their hole to themselves. "No,"
+says he, "let them quit the place that don't like it; for my part, I am
+well enough satisfied as I am."
+
+Hospitality is a virtue, but should be wisely exercised; we may by
+thoughtlessness entertain foes instead of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox who had Lost his Tail.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, caught in a trap, escaped with the loss of his "brush."
+Henceforth, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to
+which he was exposed, he schemed to bring all the other Foxes into a
+like condition with himself. He publicly advised them to cut off their
+tails, saying "that they would not only look much better without them,
+but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush." One of them
+said: "If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not
+thus counsel us."
+
+Advice prompted by selfishness should not be heeded.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Lion.
+
+
+A Lion, worn out with years, lay on the ground at the point of death. A
+Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long
+remembered injury. Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him
+as if he were an enemy. When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
+assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and
+immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up, inquired the
+cause of his lameness. The Ass said that he had a thorn in his foot, and
+requested the Wolf to pull it out. The Wolf consenting, the Ass with his
+heels kicked his teeth into his mouth, and galloped away. The Wolf
+said: "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing,
+when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?"
+
+Every one to his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Groom.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his
+Horse, but at the same time stole his oats, and sold them for his own
+profit. "Alas!" said the Horse, "if you really wish me to be in good
+condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more."
+
+If you wish to do a service, do it right.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being
+intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the traveler stopped
+to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
+As this afforded only protection for one, and as the traveler and the
+owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them
+as to which of them had the right to it. The owner maintained that he
+had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The traveler asserted that he
+had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel
+proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought the Ass galloped
+off.
+
+In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Loaded Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling
+the road together. The Ass, ready to faint under his heavy load,
+entreated the Horse to assist him, and lighten his burden, by taking
+some of it upon his back. The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do
+it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway,
+and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden, and laid it
+upon the Horse, together with the skin of the dead Ass.
+
+Laziness often prepares a burden for its own back.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Mules and the Robbers.
+
+
+Two Mules laden with packs were trudging along. One carried panniers
+filled with money, the other sacks of grain. The Mule carrying the
+treasure walked with head erect, and tossed up and down the bells
+fastened to his neck. His companion followed with quiet and easy step.
+All on a sudden Robbers rushed from their hiding-places upon them, and
+in the scuffle with their owners wounded the Mule carrying the treasure,
+which they greedily seized upon, while they took no notice of the grain.
+The Mule which had been wounded bewailed his misfortunes. The other
+replied: "I am glad that I was thought so little of, for I have lost
+nothing, nor am I hurt with any wound."
+
+The conspicuous run the greatest risk.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Three Bulls.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Three Bulls for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in ambush in
+the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them whilst
+they kept together. Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in
+separating them, he attacked them without fear, as they fed alone, and
+feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
+
+In union is strength.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his
+mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for another Dog,
+with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his
+own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from
+him. He thus lost both--that which he grasped at in the water, because
+it was a shadow and his own, because the stream swept it away.
+
+It is not wise to be too greedy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ants and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+The Ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in
+the summer time. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and
+earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him: "Why did
+you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied: "I had not
+leisure; I passed the days in singing." They then said: "If you were
+foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed
+in the winter."
+
+Idleness brings want.
+
+
+
+
+The Thirsty Pigeon.
+
+
+A Pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted
+on a sign-board. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew toward
+it with a loud whirr, and unwittingly dashed against the sign-board and
+jarred herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell
+to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
+
+Zeal should not outrun discretion.
+
+
+
+
+The Flies and the Honey.
+
+
+A Jar of Honey having been upset in a housekeeper's room, a number of
+flies were attracted by its sweetness, and placing their feet in it, ate
+it greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that
+they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were
+suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish
+creatures that we are! For the sake of a little pleasure we have
+destroyed ourselves."
+
+
+
+
+The Great and the Little Fishes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman was drawing up a net which he had cast into the sea, full of
+all sorts of fish. The Little Fish escaped through the meshes of the
+net, and got back into the deep, but the Great Fish were all caught and
+hauled into the ship.
+
+Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolves and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Why should there always be this implacable warfare between us?" said
+the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer
+for. They always bark whenever we approach you, and attack us before we
+have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels,
+there might soon be treaties of peace between us." The sheep, poor
+silly creatures! were easily beguiled, and dismissed the Dogs. The
+Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their pleasure.
+
+Change not friends for foes.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Stork.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and provided nothing but a soup, in
+a wide, shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease; but the Stork, who
+could but just dip in the point of his bill, was not a bit better. A few
+days after, he returned the compliment, and invited the Fox; but
+suffered nothing to be brought to the table but some minced meat in a
+glass jar, the neck of which was so deep and so narrow, that, though the
+Stork with his long bill could eat very well, all that the Fox could do
+was to lick the brims. Reynard was heartily vexed, but owned that he had
+been used as he deserved.
+
+Those who practice cunning must expect to suffer by it.
+
+
+
+
+The Bat and the Weasels.
+
+
+A Bat, falling upon the ground, was caught by a Weasel, of whom he
+earnestly besought his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
+nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a
+bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterward the Bat
+again fell on the ground, and was caught by another Weasel, whom he
+likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special
+hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a
+bat; and thus a second time escaped.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Tortoise.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise.
+The latter, laughing, said: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will
+beat you in a race." The Hare, deeming her assertion to be simply
+impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox
+should choose the course, and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the
+race they started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but
+went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
+The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race,
+and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and
+moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal,
+and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
+
+Perseverance is surer than swiftness.
+
+
+
+
+Jupiter and the Monkey.
+
+Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, and
+promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the
+handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest, and presented, with all a
+mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey
+as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on
+the presentation of her son. She resolutely said: "I know not whether
+Jupiter will allot the prize to my son; but this I do know, that he is
+the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all who are here."
+
+A mother's love blinds her to many imperfections.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion in Love.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,
+unwilling to grant and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this
+expedient. He expressed his willingness to accept him as the suitor of
+his daughter on one condition; that he should allow him to extract his
+teeth, and cut off his claws. The Lion cheerfully assented to the
+proposal: when, however, he next repeated his request, the woodman set
+upon him with his club.
+
+
+
+
+The Miser.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Miser had a lump of gold which he buried in the ground, coming to look
+at the spot every day. One day he found that it was stolen, and he began
+to tear his hair and loudly lament. A neighbor, seeing him, said: "Pray
+do not grieve so; bury a stone in the hole, and fancy it is the gold. It
+will serve you just as well, for when the gold was there you made no use
+of it."
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he
+had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly
+besought her to come lower down, lest she should by some mishap get a
+fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that
+the herbage was most tender. She replied: "No, my friend, it is not of
+me you are thinking, but of yourself."
+
+Invitations prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted.
+
+
+
+
+The Bald Knight.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bald Knight, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind
+blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his
+companions. He joined in the joke by saying: "What marvel that hairs
+which are not mine should fly from me, when my own have forsaken even
+the man with whom they were born."
+
+Those who cannot take care of their own, should not be entrusted with
+the care of another's property.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Wood-Cutter.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, running before the hounds, came across a Wood-cutter felling an
+oak, and besought him to show him a safe hiding-place. The Wood-cutter
+advised him to take shelter in his own hut. The Fox crept in, and hid
+himself in a corner. The Huntsman came up, with his hounds, in a few
+minutes, and inquired of the Wood-cutter if he had seen the Fox. He
+declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed, all the time he was
+speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay hid. The Huntsman took no notice
+of the signs, but, believing his word, hastened forward in the chase. As
+soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice
+of the Wood-cutter; whereon he called to him, and reproached him,
+saying: "You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you
+leave me without a word of thanks." The Fox replied: "Indeed, I should
+have thanked you most fervently, if your deeds had been as good as your
+words."
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Kid, mounted on a high rock, bestowed all manner of abuse upon a Wolf
+on the ground below. The Wolf, looking up, replied: "Do not think, vain
+creature, that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as coming not
+from you, but from the place on which you stand."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and a Bear seized upon a kid at the same moment, and fought
+fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated each
+other, and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with
+fatigue. A Fox who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw
+them both stretched on the ground, and the Kid lying untouched in the
+middle, ran in between them, and seizing the Kid, scampered off as fast
+as he could. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get
+up, said: "Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belabored
+ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox!"
+
+It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the
+profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag in the Ox-Stall.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Stag, hardly pressed by the hounds, and blind through fear to the
+danger he was running into, took shelter in a farm-yard, and hid himself
+in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappy
+creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction,
+and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?" The Stag replied: "Do
+you only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to
+find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape." At the approach
+of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the
+Stag. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express
+his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly afforded him help in the
+hour of need. One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well,
+but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the
+shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and, until he has come and
+gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself
+entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly
+fed, he went up to their racks, and cried out: "Why is there such a
+scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.
+Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away." While he thus
+examined everything, he spied the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the
+straw. Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be
+killed.
+
+What is safety for one is not always safety for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a
+lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. A Jackdaw who witnessed the
+capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy, and determined to emulate
+the strength and flight of the Eagle. He flew round with a great whirr
+of his wings, and settled upon a large sheep, with the intention of
+carrying it off, but his claws becoming entangled in its fleece, he was
+unable to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as
+much as he could. The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and
+caught him. He at once clipped his wings, and, taking him home at night,
+gave him to his children.
+
+We should not permit our ambition to lead us beyond the limits of our
+power.
+
+
+
+
+The Three Tradesmen.
+
+
+A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to
+consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer
+present earnestly recommended bricks, as affording the best materials
+for an effectual resistance. A Carpenter, with equal energy, proposed
+timber, as providing a preferable method of defense. Upon which a
+Currier stood up, and said: "Sirs, I differ from you altogether; there
+is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing
+so good as leather."
+
+Every man for his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Dancing Monkeys.
+
+
+A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics
+of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils; and when
+arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of
+the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great applause,
+till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket
+a handful of nuts, and threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys, at the
+sight of the nuts, forgot their dancing, and became (as indeed they
+were) Monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks and tearing
+their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing
+spectacle thus came to an end, amidst the laughter and ridicule of the
+audience.
+
+They who assume a character will betray themselves by their actions.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted;
+and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of
+food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices. They replied:
+"The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a
+short time died of hunger.
+
+Where one may live, another may starve.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Ass in the Lion's Skin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and
+amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in
+his wanderings. At last, meeting a Fox, he tried to frighten him also,
+but the Fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice, than he exclaimed:
+"I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your
+bray."
+
+No disguise will hide one's true character.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy Bathing.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Boy bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out
+to a traveler passing by for help. The traveler, instead of holding out
+a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his
+imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray help me now, and scold me
+afterwards."
+
+Counsel, without help, is useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Fox.
+
+
+The Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught
+in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end. The Cock,
+at a distance, saw what happened, and, hardly yet daring to trust
+himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and
+peeped at him. Reynard addressed himself to him, with all the designing
+artifice imaginable. "Dear cousin," says he, "you see what an
+unfortunate accident has befallen me here, and all upon your account:
+for, as I was creeping through yonder hedge, in my way homeward, I heard
+you crow, and was resolved to ask you how you did before I went any
+farther; but I met with this disaster; and therefore now I must ask you
+for a knife to cut this string; or, at least, to conceal my misfortune
+till I have gnawed it asunder." The Cock, seeing how the case stood,
+made no reply, but posted away as fast as he could, and told the farmer,
+who came and killed the Fox.
+
+To aid the vicious is to become a partner in their guilt.
+
+
+
+
+The Viper and the File.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Viper, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the
+means of satisfying his hunger. He more particularly addressed himself
+to a File, and asked of him the favor of a meal. The File replied: "You
+must indeed be a simple-minded fellow if you expect to get anything from
+me, who am accustomed to take from every one, and never to give anything
+in return."
+
+The covetous are poor givers.
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Axle-Trees.
+
+
+A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen.
+The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen, turning
+round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hallo there! why do you make so much
+noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."
+
+Those who suffer most cry out the least.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Bee-Hives.
+
+
+A Bear that had found his way into a garden where Bees were kept began
+to turn over the hives and devour the honey. The Bees settled in swarms
+about his head, and stung his eyes and nose so much, that, maddened with
+pain, he tore the skin from his head with his own claws.
+
+
+
+
+The Thrush and the Swallow.
+
+
+A young Thrush, who lived in an orchard once became acquainted with a
+Swallow. A friendship sprang up between them; and the Swallow, after
+skimming the orchard and the neighboring meadow, would every now and
+then come and visit the Thrush. The Thrush, hopping from branch to
+branch, would welcome him with his most cheerful note. "O mother!" said
+he to his parent one day, "never had creature such a friend as I have in
+this same Swallow."--"Nor ever any mother," replied the parent-bird,
+"such a silly son as I have in this same Thrush. Long before the
+approach of winter, your friend will have left you; and while you sit
+shivering on a leafless bough he will be sporting under sunny skies
+hundreds of miles away."
+
+
+
+
+The Sensible Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Fellow, in time of war, was allowing his Ass to feed in a green
+meadow, when he was alarmed by a sudden advance of the enemy. He tried
+every means in his power to urge the Ass to fly, but in vain. "The
+enemy are upon us!" said he. "And what will the enemy do?" asked the
+Ass. "Will they put two pairs of panniers on my back, instead of
+one?"--"No," answered the Man; "there is no fear of that."--"Why, then,"
+replied the Ass, "I'll not stir an inch. I am born to be a slave; and my
+greatest enemy is he who gives me most to carry."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.
+By-and-by they came to a cave, where wild goats abode. The Lion took up
+his station at the mouth of the cave, and the Ass, going within, kicked
+and brayed, and made a mighty fuss to frighten them out. When the Lion
+had caught them, the Ass came out and asked him if he had not made a
+noble fight. "Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would
+have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Ape.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Upon the decease of the Lion, the beasts of the forest assembled to
+choose another king. The Ape played so many grimaces, gambols, and antic
+tricks, that he was elected by a large majority; and the crown was
+placed upon his head. The Fox, envious of this distinction, seeing, soon
+after, a trap baited with a piece of meat, approached the new king, and
+said with mock humility: "May it please your majesty, I have found on
+your domain a treasure, to which, if you will deign to accompany me, I
+will conduct you." The Ape thereupon set off with the Fox, and, on
+arriving at the spot, laid his paw upon the meat. Snap! went the trap,
+and caught him by the fingers. Mad with the shame and the pain, he
+reproached the Fox for a false thief and a traitor. Reynard laughed
+heartily, and said, with a sneer: "You a king, and not understand a
+trap!"
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Wolf, roaming by the mountain's side, saw his own shadow, as the sun
+was setting, become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to
+himself: "Why should I, being of such an immense size, and extending
+nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Ought I not to be
+acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?" While he was
+indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him, and killed him.
+He exclaimed with a too-late repentance, "Wretched me! this
+over-estimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."
+
+It is not wise, to hold too exalted an opinion of one's self.
+
+
+
+
+The Miller, his Son and their Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A miller and his Son were driving their Ass to a fair. On the way, they
+met a troop of girls. "Look there!" cried one of them, "did you ever see
+such fools, to be trudging along on foot when they might be riding?"
+The old Man, hearing this, quietly bade his Son get on the Ass, and
+walked along merrily by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate. "There!"
+said one of them, "it proves what I was saying. What respect is shown to
+old age in these days? Do you see that idle young rogue riding, while
+his old father has to walk?--Get down, you scapegrace! and let the old
+Man rest his weary limbs." Upon this the Father made his Son dismount,
+and got up himself. In this manner they had not proceeded far when they
+met a company of women and children. "Why, you lazy old fellow!" cried
+several tongues at once, "how can you ride upon the beast, while that
+poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you." The
+good-natured Miller immediately took up his Son behind him. They had now
+almost reached the town. "Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is
+that Ass your own?" "Yes," says the old Man. "Oh! One would not have
+thought so by the way you load him. Why, you two fellows are better
+able to carry the poor beast than he you!" "Anything to please you,"
+said the old Man. So, alighting with his Son, they tied the Ass's legs
+together, and by the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on their
+shoulders over a bridge. The people ran out in crowds to laugh at the
+sight; till the Ass, not liking the noise nor his situation, kicked
+asunder the cords and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Upon
+this the old Man made the best of his way home with his Son--convinced
+that, by endeavoring to please every-body, he had succeeded in pleasing
+nobody, and lost his Ass into the bargain.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Travelers and the Plane-Tree.
+
+
+Two Travelers, worn out by the heat of the summer's sun, laid themselves
+down at noon under the wide-spreading branches of a Plane-tree. As they
+rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other: "What a
+singularly useless tree is the Plane. It bears no fruit, and is not of
+the least service to man." The Plane-tree interrupting him said: "You
+ungrateful fellows! Do you, while receiving benefits from me, and
+resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and
+unprofitable?"
+
+Some men despise their best blessings because they come without cost.
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Two Ducks.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, becoming tired of her humble home, resolved to visit foreign
+lands, but she did not know which way to go. She repaired to two Ducks
+to show her the road, and they told her that the best way to travel was
+through the air. On her imploring their help, they made her grasp a
+stick with her mouth, and so they bore her aloft. As they flew along,
+the gaping people beneath shouted at sight of the spectacle. The vain
+Tortoise mistook their shouts for applause. "I am surely a queen," said
+she. But, alas! as she opened her mouth to speak she lost her hold of
+the stick, and, falling to the ground, was dashed to pieces.
+
+Those who are not able to roam should stay at home.
+
+
+
+
+The Countryman and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Villager found a Snake under a hedge, almost dead with cold. He could
+not help having a compassion for the poor creature, so he brought it
+home, and laid it upon the hearth near the fire; but it had not lain
+there long, before (being revived with the heat) it began to erect
+itself, and fly at his wife and children. The Countryman, hearing an
+outcry, and perceiving what the matter was, caught up a mattock, and
+soon dispatched him, upbraiding him at the same time in these words: "Is
+this, vile wretch, the reward you make to him that saved your life?"
+
+Kindness to the ungrateful and the vicious is thrown away.
+
+
+
+
+The Madman who Sold Wisdom.
+
+
+A Madman once set himself up in the market place, and with loud cries
+announced that he would sell Wisdom. The people at once crowded about
+him, and some gave him gold for his wares, but they each got only a blow
+on the ear and a bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their
+companions. One of them, however, took it more seriously than the
+others, and asked a wise sage what it meant. "It means," said the sage,
+"that if one would not be hurt by a Madman, he must put a bunch of
+thread over his ears." So the Madman was really selling Wisdom.
+
+
+
+
+The Leopard and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Leopard, being no longer able, by reason of old age, to pursue his
+prey, feigned illness, and gave out that he would confer great favors
+upon any animal that would cure him. A cunning Fox heard of the
+proclamation, and lost no time in visiting the Leopard, first making
+himself look as much like a physician as he could. On seeing him, the
+Leopard declared that such a distinguished looking animal could not
+fail to cure him. This so flattered the Fox that he came near, and at
+once fell a victim to his vanity, being unable to flee because of the
+disguise, which fettered his limbs.
+
+Flattery is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an enemy.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare afraid of his Ears.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Lion, being badly hurt by the horns of a goat, swore in a great rage
+that every animal with horns should be banished from his kingdom. A
+silly Hare, seeing the shadow of his ears, was in great fear lest they
+should be taken for horns, and scampered away.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked a Crane that passed by,
+ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage, and saying: "I am robed like a
+king, in gold and purple, and all the colors of the rainbow; while you
+have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," replied the Crane, "but
+I soar to the heights of heaven, and lift up my voice to the stars,
+while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."
+
+Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Weasel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little starveling Mouse had made his way with some difficulty into a
+basket of corn, where, finding the entertainment so good, he stuffed and
+crammed himself to such an extent, that when he would have got out again
+he found the hole was too small to allow his puffed-up body to pass. As
+he sat at the hole groaning over his fate, a Weasel, who was brought to
+the spot by his cries, thus addressed him: "Stop there, my friend, and
+fast till you are thin; for you will never come out till you reduce
+yourself to the same condition as when you entered."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Tiger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A skillful archer, coming into the woods, directed his arrows so
+successfully that he slew many wild beasts, and pursued several others.
+This put the whole savage kind into a fearful consternation, and made
+them fly to the most retired thickets for refuge. At last, the Tiger
+resumed courage, and, bidding them not be afraid, said that he alone
+would engage the enemy; telling them they might depend upon his valor
+and strength to revenge their wrongs. In the midst of these threats,
+while he was lashing himself with his tail, and tearing up the ground
+for anger, an arrow pierced his ribs, and hung by its barbed point in
+his side. He set up an hideous and loud roar, occasioned by the anguish
+which he felt, and endeavored to draw out the painful dart with his
+teeth; when the Fox, approaching him, inquired with an air of surprise
+who it was that could have strength and courage enough to wound so
+mighty and valorous a beast! "Ah!" says the Tiger, "I was mistaken in my
+reckoning: it was that invincible man yonder."
+
+There is always some vulnerable point in the strongest armor.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Turkeys.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox spied some turkeys roosting in a tree. He managed to attract
+their attention and then ran about the tree, pretended to climb, walked
+on his hind legs, and did all sorts of tricks. Filled with fear, the
+Turkeys watched every one of his movements until they became dizzy, and,
+one by one, fell from their safe perch.
+
+By too much attention to danger, we may fall victims to it.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle had made her nest at the top of a lofty oak. A Cat, having
+found a convenient hole, lived with her kittens in the middle of the
+trunk; and a Wild Sow with her young had taken shelter in a hollow at
+its foot. The Cat resolved to destroy by her arts this chance-made
+colony. She climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said: "Destruction is
+preparing for you, and for me too. The Wild Sow, whom you may see daily
+digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, that she may, on its
+fall, seize our families as food." Then she crept down to the cave of
+the Sow and said: "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you
+shall go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to
+pounce upon one of your little pigs." When night came, she went forth
+with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens; but,
+feigning to be afraid, she kept a look-out all through the day.
+Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the
+branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out
+from her cave; and thus they each, with their families, perished from
+hunger.
+
+Those who stir up enmities are not to be trusted.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Magpie.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Birds once met together to choose a king; and, among others, the
+Peacock was a candidate. Spreading his showy tail, and stalking up and
+down with affected grandeur, he caught the eyes of the silly multitude
+by his brilliant appearance, and was elected with acclamation. The
+Magpie then stepped forth into the midst of the assembly, and thus
+addressed the new king: "May it please your majesty, elect to permit a
+humble admirer to propose a question. As our king, we put our lives and
+fortunes in your hands. If, therefore, the Eagle, the Vulture, and the
+Kite, should make a descent upon us, what means would you take for our
+defense?" This pithy question opened the eyes of the Birds to the
+weakness of their choice and they canceled the election.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Goats.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Goats started at the same moment, from opposite ends, to cross a
+rude bridge that was only wide enough for one to cross at a time.
+Meeting at the middle of the bridge, neither would give way to the
+other. They locked horns and fought for the right of way, until they
+both fell into the torrent below and were drowned.
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Ant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being
+carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of being
+drowned. A Dove, sitting on a tree overhanging the water, plucked a
+leaf, and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant, climbing on
+to it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher
+came close and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the
+Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung
+him in the foot. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made
+the Dove take wing.
+
+The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one
+another's nests. The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon
+and in eating the young ones of the Beetle. The Beetle got by stealth at
+the Eagle's eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the
+Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter. On the Eagle making his
+complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while
+Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and
+Jupiter, rising up unawares to drive him away from his head, threw down
+the eggs, and broke them.
+
+The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though
+they be the more powerful.
+
+
+
+
+The Mule.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mule, frolicsome from want of work and from overmuch corn, galloped
+about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father
+surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and
+spirit." On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very
+weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake;
+my father, after all, could have been only an ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Cat, the Weasel and the Rabbit.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While a Rabbit was absent from his hole one day, a Weasel took
+possession of it. On the Rabbit's return, seeing the Weasel's nose
+sticking out, he said: "You must leave this hole immediately. There is
+only room for one, and it has always belonged to me and my fathers
+before me." "The more reason that you should give it up now," said the
+Weasel, "and leave its possession to me." As they could not settle the
+dispute, they agreed to leave the question of ownership to a wise old
+Cat, to whom they went without more ado. "I am deaf," said the Cat. "Put
+your noses close to my ears." No sooner had they done so, than she
+clapped a paw upon each of them, and killed them both.
+
+The strong are apt to settle all questions by the rule of might.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat in an evil day made acquaintance with a Frog, and they set off on
+their travels together. The Frog, on pretense of great affection, and of
+keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the Rat's foot to his own
+hind-leg, and thus they proceeded for some distance by land. Presently
+they came to some water, and the Frog, bidding the Rat have good
+courage, began to swim across. They had scarcely, however, arrived
+midway, when the Frog took a sudden plunge to the bottom, dragging the
+unfortunate Rat after him. But the struggling and floundering of the Rat
+made so great a commotion in the water that it attracted the attention
+of a Kite, who, pouncing down and bearing off the Rat, carried away the
+Frog at the same time in his train.
+
+Inconsiderate and ill-matched alliances generally end in ruin; and the
+man who compasses the destruction of his neighbor, is often caught in
+his own snare.
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and the Sheep.
+
+
+There was a certain Widow who had an only Sheep, and, wishing to make
+the most of his wool, she sheared him so closely that she cut his skin
+as well as his fleece. The Sheep, smarting under this treatment, cried
+out: "Why do you torture me thus? What will my blood add to the weight
+of the wool? If you want my flesh, Dame, send for the Butcher, who will
+put me out of my misery at once; but if you want my fleece, send for the
+Shearer, who will clip my wool without drawing my blood."
+
+Economy may be carried too far.
+
+
+
+
+The Man Bitten by a Dog.
+
+
+A Man who had been bitten by a Dog was going about asking who could cure
+him. One that met him said: "Sir, if you would be cured, take a bit of
+bread and dip it in the blood of the wound, and give it to the dog that
+bit you." The Man smiled, and said: "If I were to follow your advice, I
+should be bitten by all the dogs in the city."
+
+He who proclaims himself ready to buy up his enemies will never want a
+supply of them.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Horse grazing in a field. Putting on a grave air, he
+approached him and said: "Sir, you must be very ill; I have some skill
+as a physician, and if you will tell me where your ailment is, I shall
+be glad to be of service." Said the horse: "If you will examine my foot,
+you will find what ails me." But as the wily Wolf approached him, with a
+kick he sent him flying into the air.
+
+
+
+
+The Goatherd and the Goats.
+
+
+It was a stormy day, and the snow was falling fast, when a Goatherd
+drove his Goats, all white with snow, into a desert cave for shelter.
+There he found that a herd of Wild Goats, more numerous and larger than
+his own, had already taken possession. So, thinking to secure them all,
+he left his own Goats to take care of themselves, and threw the branches
+which he had brought for them to the Wild Goats to browse on. But when
+the weather cleared up, he found his own Goats had perished from hunger,
+while the Wild Goats were off and away to the hills and woods. So the
+Goatherd returned a laughing-stock to his neighbors, having failed to
+gain the Wild Goats, and having lost his own.
+
+They who neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones, are rightly
+served if they lose both.
+
+
+
+
+The Goose with the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain man had the good fortune to possess a Goose that laid him a
+Golden Egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and
+thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the Goose, and
+cutting her open, found her--just what any other goose would be!
+
+Much wants more, and loses all.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old
+wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former
+contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing
+it backwards and forwards, said: "O most delicious! How nice must the
+Wine itself have been when it leaves behind in the very vessel which
+contained it so sweet a perfume!"
+
+The memory of a good deed lives.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Carrying Salt.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had
+cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some. Having
+loaded the beast as much as he could bear, he was driving him home,
+when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into
+the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his
+burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey
+onward, light in body and in spirit. The Huckster soon afterwards set
+off for the sea-shore for some more Salt, and loaded the Ass, if
+possible, yet more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed
+the stream into which he had formerly fallen, the Ass fell down on
+purpose, and by the dissolving of the Salt, was again released from his
+load. The Master, provoked at the loss, and thinking how he might cure
+him of this trick, on his next journey to the coast freighted the beast
+with a load of sponges. When they arrived at the same stream as before,
+the Ass was at his old tricks again, and rolled himself into the water;
+but he found to his cost, as he proceeded homewards, that instead of
+lightening his burden, he had more than doubled its weight.
+
+The same measures will not suit all circumstances.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Bull.
+
+
+A Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of a Bull, at length
+settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding
+him; "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say
+so, and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your head about
+that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all one to me whether you go or stay;
+and, to say the truth, I did not know you were there."
+
+The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Gnat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As a Gnat was buzzing around a Lion, the Lion said to him: "How dare you
+approach so near? Be off, or I will kill you with the least stroke of
+my paw." The Gnat, knowing the advantage of his small size, and his
+alertness, immediately challenged the boaster to combat, and alighting
+first upon his nose and then upon his tail, made the Lion so furious
+that he injured himself grievously with his paws. As the Gnat flew away
+he boasted of his own prowess in thus defeating the King of Beasts
+without the slightest injury to himself. But, in his carelessness, he
+flew directly into a spider's web, and the spider instantly seized and
+killed him.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Hunting.
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox formed a party to go out hunting. They
+took a large booty, and when the sport was ended, bethought themselves
+of having a hearty meal. The Lion bade the Ass allot the spoil. So,
+dividing it into three equal parts, the Ass begged his friends to make
+their choice; at which the Lion, in great indignation, fell upon the Ass
+and tore him to pieces. He then bade the Fox make a division; who,
+gathering the whole into one great heap, reserved but the smallest mite
+for himself. "Ah! friend," says the Lion, "who taught you to make so
+equitable a division?" "I wanted no other lesson," replied the Fox,
+"than the Ass's fate."
+
+Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Whose Ears were Cropped.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog complained of the cruelty of her master in cutting off her ears,
+and was so ashamed of her appearance that she resolved to stay in her
+kennel with her family. A friendly hunting dog said to her: "If you had
+been peaceful, and not always fighting, you would have saved your ears
+and your good looks. If you will fight, it is a kindness to crop your
+ears, that they may not give your enemy the advantage."
+
+
+
+
+The Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A dispute once arose between the Wind and the Sun, which was the
+stronger of the two, and they agreed to settle the point upon this
+issue--that whichever of the two soonest made a traveler take off his
+cloak, should be accounted the more powerful. The Wind began, and blew
+with all his might and main a blast, cold and fierce as a Thracian
+storm; but the stronger he blew, the closer the traveler wrapped his
+cloak around him, and the tighter he grasped it with his hands. Then
+broke out the Sun. With his welcome beams he dispersed the vapor and the
+cold; the traveler felt the genial warmth, and as the Sun shone brighter
+and brighter, he sat down, quite overcome with the heat, and taking off
+his cloak, cast it on the ground.
+
+Thus the Sun was declared the conqueror; and it has ever been deemed
+that persuasion is better than force; and that the sunshine of a kind
+and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor man's heart than all the
+threatenings and force of blustering authority.
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Boar and the Fox.
+
+
+A Wild Boar was whetting his tusks against a tree, when a Fox coming by,
+asked why he did so; "for," said he, "I see no reason for it; there is
+neither hunter nor hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can see,
+at hand." "True," replied the Boar; "but when that danger does arise, I
+shall have something else to do than to sharpen my weapons."
+
+It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds to draw it.
+
+
+
+
+The Hunter and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A greedy Hunter one day shot a fine Deer, and ere he could dress it, a
+pretty Fawn came that way, and an arrow brought it to the ground. A Boar
+now chanced to be passing, and the Hunter wounded it so that it lay upon
+the ground as if dead. Not satisfied with this game, he must needs
+pursue a Partridge that came fluttering near, and while he was doing so
+the wounded Boar regained enough strength to spring upon him and kill
+him. A Wolf came that way, and seeing the four dead bodies, said: "Here
+is food for a month; but I will save the best, and be content to-day
+with the bow-string." But when he seized the string it loosened the
+fixed arrow, which shot him through the heart.
+
+The greedy man and the miser cannot enjoy their gains.
+
+
+
+
+The Astronomer.
+
+
+An Astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars. It
+happened one night that, with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies,
+he fell into a well. One who heard his cries ran up to him, and said:
+"While you are trying to pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook
+the common objects under your feet."
+
+We should never look so high as to miss seeing the things that are
+around us.
+
+
+
+
+The Bulls and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Bulls lived in the same herd, and each aspiring to be the leader and
+master, they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old Frog, who sat on
+the bank of a stream near by, began to groan and to quake with fear. A
+thoughtless young Frog said to the old one: "Why need you be afraid?
+What is it to you that the Bulls fight for supremacy?" "Do you not see,"
+said the old Frog, "that one must defeat the other, and that the
+defeated Bull, being driven from the field, will be forced to stay in
+the marshes, and will thus trample us to death?"
+
+The poor and weak are often made to suffer for the follies of the
+great.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and His Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Schoolboy stole a horn-book from one of his schoolfellows, and brought
+it home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, she rather encouraged
+him in the deed. In course of time the boy, now grown into a man, began
+to steal things of greater value, until, at last, being caught in the
+very act, he was brought to the Judge and sentenced to be hung. As he
+was being led to the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the ground
+with grief. A neighbor seeing her thus, said to her: "It is too late for
+you to moan and sob now. If you had been as much grieved when he
+committed his first theft, you would have corrected him in time, and
+thus have saved yourself this sorrowful day."
+
+Nip evil in the bud.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and His Two Wives.
+
+
+In days when a man was allowed more wives than one, a middle-aged
+bachelor, who could be called neither young nor old, and whose hair was
+only just beginning to turn gray, must needs fall in love with two women
+at once, and marry them both. The one was young and blooming, and wished
+her husband to appear as youthful as herself; the other was somewhat
+more advanced in age, and was as anxious that her husband should appear
+a suitable match for her. So, while the young one seized every
+opportunity of pulling out the good man's gray hairs, the old one was
+as industrious in plucking out every black hair she could find, till he
+found that, between the one and the other, he had not a hair left.
+
+He that submits his principles to the influence and caprices of opposite
+parties will end in having no principles at all.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer, the Goat, the Sheep and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Heifer, a Goat, a Sheep, and a Lion formed a partnership, and agreed
+to divide their earnings. The Goat having snared a stag, they sent for
+the Lion to divide it for them. The Lion said: "I will make four
+parts--the first shall be mine as judge; the second, because I am
+strongest; the third, because I am bravest; and the fourth--I will kill
+any one who dares touch it."
+
+He who will steal a part will steal the whole.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Travelers on a desert saw a Camel in the distance, and were greatly
+frightened at his huge appearance, thinking it to be some huge monster.
+While they hid behind some low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they
+discovered that it was only a harmless Camel which had excited their
+fears.
+
+Distance exaggerates dangers.
+
+
+
+
+The Swan and the Goose.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. He fed the
+one for his table, and kept the other for the sake of its song. When the
+time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to take him at night,
+when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the
+other, and he caught the Swan instead of the Goose. The Swan, threatened
+with death, burst forth into song, and thus made himself known by his
+voice, and preserved his life by his melody.
+
+Sweet words may deliver us from peril, when harsh words would fail.
+
+
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Sprat.
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Whales were at war with one another, and the Sprat
+stepped in and endeavored to separate them. But one of the Dolphins
+cried out: "We would rather perish in the contest, than be reconciled by
+you."
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sea.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Shepherd moved down his flock to feed near the shore, and beholding
+the Sea lying in a smooth calm, he was seized with a strong desire to
+sail over it. So he sold all his sheep and bought a cargo of Dates, and
+loaded a vessel, and set sail. He had not gone far when a storm arose;
+his ship was wrecked, and his Dates and everything lost, and he himself
+with difficulty escaped to land. Not long after, when the Sea was again
+calm, and one of his friends came up to him and was admiring its repose,
+he said: "Have a care, my good fellow, of that smooth surface, it is
+only looking out for your Dates."
+
+
+
+
+The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp.
+
+
+Some Bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak. The Drones
+asserted that it was their doing, and belonged to them. The cause was
+brought into court before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the parties,
+he thus addressed them: "The plaintiffs and defendants are so much alike
+in shape and color as to render the ownership a doubtful matter. Let
+each party take a hive to itself, and build up a new comb, that from the
+shape of the cells and the taste of the honey, the lawful proprietors of
+the property in dispute may appear." The Bees readily assented to the
+Wasp's plan. The Drones declined it. Whereupon the Wasp gave judgment:
+"It is clear now who made the comb, and who cannot make it; the Court
+adjudges the honey to the Bees."
+
+Professions are best tested by deeds.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf, the Goat and the Kid.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old Goat was going forth to pasture, she carefully latched her
+door, and bid her kid not to open it to any one who could not give this
+pass-word: "Beware of the Wolf and all his race." A Wolf happened to be
+passing, and overheard what the old Goat said. When she was gone, he
+went to the door, and, knocking, said: "Beware of the Wolf and all his
+race." But the Kid, peeping through a crack, said: "Show me a white paw
+and I will open the door." As the Wolf could not do this, he had to
+depart, no better than he came.
+
+Two sureties are better than one.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Hedgehog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, while crossing over a river, was driven by the stream into a
+narrow gorge, and lay there for a long time unable to get out, covered
+with myriads of horse-flies that had fastened themselves upon him. A
+Hedgehog, who was wandering in that direction, saw him, and taking
+compassion on him, asked him if he should drive away the flies that were
+so tormenting him. But the Fox begged him to do nothing of the sort.
+"Why not?" asked the Hedgehog. "Because," replied the Fox, "these flies
+that are upon me now are already full, and draw but little blood, but
+should you remove them, a swarm of fresh and hungry ones will come, who
+will not leave a drop of blood in my body."
+
+When we throw off rulers or dependents, who have already made the most
+of us, we do but, for the most part, lay ourselves open to others, who
+will make us bleed yet more freely.
+
+
+
+
+The Brazier and His Dog.
+
+
+A Brazier had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master,
+and his constant companion. While he hammered away at his metals the Dog
+slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner, and began to eat,
+the Dog woke up, and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of
+his meal. His master one day, pretending to be angry, and shaking his
+stick at him, said: "You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to
+you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I
+begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do
+you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none
+but those who work are entitled to eat?"
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Ass and the Lion.
+
+
+A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture
+the beasts of the forest with the greater ease. The Lion agreed to
+assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the
+benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as
+their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey,
+and for this purpose divided it into three shares. "I will take the
+first share," he said, "because I am king; and the second share, as a
+partner with you in the chase; and the third share (believe me) will be
+a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and
+set off as fast as you can."
+
+Might makes right.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and His Two Daughters.
+
+
+A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to
+a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the
+gardener, and inquired how she was, and how all things went with her.
+She said: "All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish,
+that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be
+well watered." Not long after he went to the daughter who had married
+the tile-maker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied:
+"I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may
+continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be
+dried." He said to her: "If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry
+weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fir Tree and the Bramble.
+
+
+A Fir Tree said boastingly to the Bramble: "You are useful for nothing
+at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble
+made answer: "You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes
+and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish
+that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree."
+
+Better poverty without care, than riches with.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Monkey.
+
+
+A Monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them
+all by his performance that they elected him their king. A Fox envying
+him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading
+the Monkey to the place where it was, said "that she had found a store,
+but had not used it, but had kept it for him as treasure trove of his
+kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it." The Monkey approached
+carelessly, and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of
+purposely leading him into the snare, she replied: "O Monkey, and are
+you, with such a mind as yours, going to be king over the Beasts?"
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and His Sons.
+
+
+A Farmer being on the point of death, wished to insure from his sons the
+same attention to his farm as he had himself given it. He called them to
+his bedside, and said: "My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of
+my vineyards." The sons, after his death, took their spades and
+mattocks, and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found
+no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and
+superabundant crop.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Birds.
+
+
+A Cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing, dressed
+himself up as a physician, and, taking with him his cane and the
+instruments becoming his profession, went to the aviary, knocked at the
+door, and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they
+were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They
+replied: "We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only
+be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are."
+
+
+
+
+The Stag, the Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Stag asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the
+Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended,
+excused herself, saying: "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants,
+and to run off, and you, too, can quickly out-strip me in your rapid
+flight. How then shall I be able to find you when the day of payment
+comes?"
+
+Two blacks do not make one white.
+
+
+
+
+The Raven and the Swan.
+
+
+A Raven saw a Swan, and desired to secure for himself a like beauty of
+plumage. Supposing that his splendid white color arose from his washing
+in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the
+neighborhood of which he picked up his living, and took up his abode in
+the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he
+could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
+
+Change of habit cannot alter nature.
+
+
+
+
+The Lioness.
+
+
+A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field, as to which of
+the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number
+of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the
+Lioness, and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. "And you,"
+they said, "how many sons have you at a birth?" The Lioness laughed at
+them, and said: "Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a
+thorough-bred Lion."
+
+The value is in the worth, not in the number.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aesop's Fables, by Aesop
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+Title: Aesop's Fables
+       A New Revised Version From Original Sources
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+Author: Aesop
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+�SOP'S FABLES
+
+A NEW REVISED VERSION
+
+FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+BY
+HARRISON WEIR,[A] JOHN TENNIEL, ERNEST GRISET
+AND OTHERS
+
+NEW YORK
+FRANK F. LOVELL & COMPANY
+142 AND 144 WORTH STREET
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1884,
+BY R. WORTHINGTON.
+
+[Transcriber's note A: Original had "WIER".]
+
+
+
+
+LIFE OF �SOP.
+
+
+The Life and History of �sop is involved, like that of Homer, the most
+famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia;
+Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and
+Coti�um, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the
+distinction of being the birthplace of �sop. Although the honor thus
+claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet
+there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as
+established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of �sop. He
+is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the
+year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned
+by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and
+Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his
+learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient
+republics of Greece was the permission to take an active interest in
+public affairs; and �sop, like the philosophers Ph�do, Menippus, and
+Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a
+servile condition to a position of high renown. In his desire alike to
+instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and
+among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia,
+the great patron in that day, of learning and of learned men. He met at
+the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is
+related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the
+conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an
+expression which has since passed into a proverb, "mallon ho
+Phryx"--"The Phrygian has spoken better than all."
+
+On the invitation of Croesus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was
+employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of
+state. In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different
+petty republics of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at
+another in Athens, endeavoring, by the narration of some of his wise
+fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the
+administration of their respective rulers, Pariander and Pisistratus.
+One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of
+Croesus, was the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi
+with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so
+provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and
+sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment,
+accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as
+ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. This cruel death of �sop
+was not unavenged. The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of
+calamities, until they made a public reparation of their crime; and "The
+blood of �sop" became a well-known adage, bearing witness to the truth
+that deeds of wrong would not pass unpunished. Neither did the great
+fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory
+at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek
+sculptors. Ph�drus thus immortalizes the event:--
+
+  �sopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici,
+  Servumque collocarunt �terna in basi:
+  Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;
+  Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam.
+
+These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of
+certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of �sop. They were
+first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of
+ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac,
+who declined the honor of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his
+desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He published his
+life of �sop, Anno Domini 1632. The later investigations of a host of
+English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by
+M. Mezeriac. The substantial truth of his statements has been confirmed
+by later criticism and inquiry.
+
+It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the
+life of �sop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of
+Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine
+Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the
+fourteenth century. His life was prefixed to all the early editions of
+these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall
+as the introduction to his edition of �sop. This life by Planudes
+contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd
+pictures of the grotesque deformity of �sop, of wondrous apocryphal
+stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now
+universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. It is given up
+in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest
+credit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+�SOP'S FABLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Wolf Turned Shepherd.
+
+
+A wolf, finding that the sheep were so afraid of him that he could not
+get near them, disguised himself in the dress of a shepherd, and thus
+attired approached the flock. As he came near, he found the shepherd
+fast asleep. As the sheep did not run away, he resolved to imitate the
+voice of the shepherd. In trying to do so, he only howled, and awoke the
+shepherd. As he could not run away, he was soon killed.
+
+Those who attempt to act in disguise are apt to overdo it.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag at the Pool.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A stag saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the
+size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such weak
+feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the
+pool. The Stag betook himself to flight, and kept himself with ease at a
+safe distance from the Lion, until he entered a wood and became
+entangled with his horns. The Lion quickly came up with him and caught
+him. When too late he thus reproached himself: "Woe is me! How have I
+deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I
+gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction."
+
+What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Mask.
+
+
+A fox entered the house of an actor, and, rummaging through all his
+properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He
+placed his paws on it, and said: "What a beautiful head! yet it is of
+no value, as it entirely wants brains."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A fair face is of little use without sense.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Fox.
+
+
+A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying "that of all
+animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such
+respect for him, that he would not even touch his dead body." A Fox
+hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear: "Oh, that you would
+eat the dead and not the living!"
+
+We should not wait till a person is dead, to give him our respect.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lamb.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay
+violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the
+Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last
+year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful
+tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in
+my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted
+grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the
+Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food
+and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying:
+"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my
+imputations."
+
+The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless
+for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor
+intends to be unjust.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The One-Eyed Doe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Doe, blind of an eye, was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of
+the sea as she possibly could, to secure greater safety. She turned her
+eye towards the land, that she might perceive the approach of a hunter
+or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from which she
+entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen, sailing by, saw
+her, and, taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Said she: "O
+wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land,
+and, after all, to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety,
+so much more perilous."
+
+Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog, Cock and Fox.
+
+
+A Dog and a Cock, traveling together, took shelter at night in a thick
+wood. The Cock perched himself on a high branch, while the Dog found a
+bed at the foot of the tree. When morning dawned, the Cock, as usual,
+crowed very loudly. A Fox, hearing the sound, and wishing to make a
+breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how
+earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so sweet a
+voice.
+
+"If you will admit me," said he, "I should very much like to spend the
+day with you."
+
+The Cock said: "Sir, do me the favor to go round and wake up my porter,
+that he may open the door, and let you in." On the Fox approaching the
+tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him and quickly tore him in pieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse, by an unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance with a
+Frog. The Frog one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse
+tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog led his friend toward
+the pool in which he lived, until he reached the very brink, when
+suddenly jumping in, he dragged the Mouse in with him. The Frog enjoyed
+the water amazingly, and swam croaking about as if he had done a
+meritorious action. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated with the
+water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot
+of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it, carried it up
+aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also
+carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
+
+Harm hatch, harm catch.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Oyster.
+
+
+A Dog, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster, and opening his mouth to its
+widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to
+be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said:
+"I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything
+round must be an egg."
+
+Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherds.
+
+
+A Wolf passing by, saw some shepherds in a hut eating for their dinner a
+haunch of mutton. Approaching them, he said: "What a clamor you would
+raise, if I were to do as you are doing!"
+
+Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice
+themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Hares and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Hares, oppressed with a sense of their own exceeding timidity, and
+weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord
+determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles, by jumping
+from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. As they scampered off in
+a very numerous body to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the
+banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet, and rushed
+helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. On seeing the rapid
+disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his
+companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now
+see that other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We are encouraged by seeing others that are worse off than ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Boar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst, a Lion
+and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They
+fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon
+engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a
+sudden to take breath for the fiercer renewal of the strife, they saw
+some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should
+fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying: "It is better
+for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures, as
+will certainly happen if we are disabled."
+
+Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of
+their defeat to benefit themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Mischievous Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog used to run up quietly to the heels of those he met, and to bite
+them without notice. His master sometimes suspended a bell about his
+neck, that he might give notice of his presence wherever he went, and
+sometimes he fastened a chain about his neck, to which was attached a
+heavy clog, so that he could not be so quick at biting people's heels.
+
+The Dog grew proud of his bell and clog, and went with them all over the
+market-place. An old hound said to him: "Why do you make such an
+exhibition of yourself? That bell and clog that you carry are not,
+believe me, orders of merit, but, on the contrary, marks of disgrace, a
+public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered dog."
+
+Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Quack Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned
+physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you
+pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own
+lame gait and wrinkled skin?"
+
+Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend
+themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Ass and the Fox, having entered into a partnership together, went
+out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far, when they met a
+Lion. The Fox approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the
+capture of the Ass, if he would pledge his word that his own life should
+be spared. On his assuring him that he would not injure him, the Fox led
+the Ass to a deep pit, and contrived that he should fall into it. The
+Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox,
+and then attacked the Ass at his leisure.
+
+Traitors must expect treachery.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, being sick and maimed, called to a Sheep, who was passing, and
+asked him to fetch some water from the stream. "For," he said, "if you
+will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat."
+"Yes," said the Sheep, "if I should bring you the draught, you would
+doubtless make me provide the meat also."
+
+Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Jewel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious
+stone; on which he said: "If thy owner had found thee, and not I, he
+would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I
+have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than
+all the jewels in the world."
+
+
+
+
+The Two Pots.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware,
+and the other of brass. As they floated along on the surface of the
+stream, the Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot: "Pray keep at a distance,
+and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall
+be broken in pieces; and besides, I by no means wish to come near you."
+
+Equals make the best friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Lion.
+
+
+A Gnat came and said to a Lion: "I do not the least fear you, nor are
+you stronger than I am. For in what does your strength consist? You can
+scratch with your claws, and bite with your teeth--so can a woman in her
+quarrels. I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if
+you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer." The Gnat, having
+sounded his horn, fastened itself upon the Lion, and stung him on the
+nostrils. The Lion, trying to crush him, tore himself with his claws,
+until he punished himself severely. The Gnat thus prevailed over the
+Lion, and buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But shortly
+afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb, and was eaten
+by a spider. He greatly lamented his fate, saying: "Woe is me, that I,
+who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish
+myself from this spider."
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and her Little Maidens.
+
+
+A widow woman, fond of cleaning, had two little maidens to wait on her.
+She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
+The maidens, being aggrieved by such excessive labor, resolved to kill
+the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this,
+they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles,
+for their mistress, no longer hearing the cock, was unable to tell the
+time, and so, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
+
+Unlawful acts to escape trials only increase our troubles.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox who had never yet seen a Lion, when he fell in with him by a
+certain chance for the first time in the forest, was so frightened that
+he was near dying with fear. On his meeting with him for the second
+time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
+On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went
+up to him, and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
+
+Acquaintance softens prejudices.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Country Mouse invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a
+visit, and partake of his country fare. As they were on the bare
+plough-lands, eating their wheat-stalks and roots pulled up from the
+hedge-row, the Town Mouse said to his friend: "You live here the life of
+the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. I am surrounded with
+every luxury, and if you will come with me, as I much wish you would,
+you shall have an ample share of my dainties." The Country Mouse was
+easily persuaded, and returned to town with his friend. On his arrival,
+the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs,
+honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from
+a basket. The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such
+good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, and lamented his
+own hard fate. Just as they were beginning to eat, some one opened the
+door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole
+so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. They had
+scarcely again begun their repast when some one else entered to take
+something out of a cupboard, on which the two Mice, more frightened than
+before, ran away and hid themselves. At last the Country Mouse, almost
+famished, thus addressed his friend: "Although you have prepared for me
+so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is
+surrounded by too many dangers to please me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Better a little in safety, than an abundance surrounded by danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Dolphin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sailor, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him
+while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent
+tempest arose, in which the ship was wrecked, and he, his Monkey and all
+the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A Dolphin saw the Monkey
+contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is
+always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey
+him on his back in safety to the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with
+his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded of the
+Monkey if he were an Athenian, who answered that he was, and that he was
+descended from one of the noblest families in that city.
+
+The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Pir�us (the famous harbor of
+Athens). The Monkey, supposing that a man was meant, and being obliged
+to support his previous lie, answered that he knew him very well, and
+that he was an intimate friend, who would, no doubt, be very glad to see
+him. The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under
+the water, and drowned him.
+
+He who once begins to tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make
+them appear true, and, sooner or later, they will get him into trouble.
+
+
+
+
+The Game-cocks and the Partridge.
+
+
+A Man had two Game-cocks in his poultry yard. One day, by chance, he
+fell in with a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it, and brought it
+home that it might be reared with his Game-cocks. On its being put into
+the poultry-yard, they struck at it, and followed it about, so that the
+Partridge was grievously troubled in mind, and supposed that he was
+thus badly treated because he was a stranger. Not long afterwards he saw
+the Cocks fighting together, and not separating before one had well
+beaten the other. He then said to himself: "I shall no longer distress
+myself at being struck at by these Game-cocks, when I see that they
+cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other."
+
+Strangers should avoid those who quarrel among themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Nettle.
+
+
+A Boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his mother, saying:
+"Although it pains me so much, I did but touch it ever so gently." "That
+was just it," said his mother, "which caused it to sting you. The next
+time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to
+your hand, and not in the least hurt you."
+
+Whatever you do, do with all your might.
+
+
+
+
+The Trumpeter taken Prisoner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
+He cried out to his captors: "Pray spare me, and do not take my life
+without cause or without injury. I have not slain a single man of your
+troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet."
+"That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," they
+said, "for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up
+all the other soldiers to battle."
+
+He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive.
+
+
+
+
+The Fatal Marriage.
+
+
+The Lion, touched with gratitude by the noble procedure of a Mouse, and
+resolving not to be outdone in generosity by any wild beast whatsoever,
+desired his little deliverer to name his own terms, for that he might
+depend upon his complying with any proposal he should make. The Mouse,
+fired with ambition at this gracious offer, did not so much consider
+what was proper for him to ask, as what was in the powers of his prince
+to grant; and so demanded his princely daughter, the young lioness, in
+marriage. The Lion consented; but, when he would have given the royal
+virgin into his possession, she, like a giddy thing as she was, not
+minding how she walked, by chance set her paw upon her spouse, who was
+coming to meet her, and crushed him to pieces.
+
+Beware of unequal matches. Alliances prompted by ambition often prove
+fatal.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Charger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully
+provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that
+without hard work. But when war broke out, the heavy armed soldier
+mounted the Horse, and rushed into the very midst of the enemy, and the
+Horse, being wounded, fell dead on the battle-field. Then the Ass,
+seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse,
+saying: "How much more fortunate am I than a charger. I can remain at
+home in safety while he is exposed to all the perils of war."
+
+Be not hasty to envy the condition of others.
+
+
+
+
+The Vain Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds,
+and made proclamation that, on a certain day, they should all present
+themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful
+among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched
+through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had
+fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of
+his body. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled
+before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his
+many-feathered finery. On Jupiter proposing to make him king, on account
+of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each
+plucking from him his own feathers, the Jackdaw was again nothing but a
+Jackdaw.
+
+Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
+
+
+
+
+The Milkmaid and her Pot of Milk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Maid was carrying her pail of milk to the farm-house, when she fell
+a-musing. "The money for which this milk will be sold will buy at least
+three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two
+hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for market
+when poultry will fetch the highest price; so that by the end of the
+year I shall have money enough to buy a new gown. In this dress I will
+go to the Christmas junketings, when all the young fellows will propose
+to me, but I will toss my head, and refuse them every one." At this
+moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell
+the Milk-pot to the ground, and broke into a hundred pieces, and all
+her fine schemes perished in a moment.
+
+Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Playful Ass.
+
+
+An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there,
+broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him, and quickly drove him
+down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. The Ass said:
+"Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed
+heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement."
+
+Those who do not know their right place must be taught it.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Satyr.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man and a Satyr once formed a bond of alliance. One very cold wintry
+day, as they talked together, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and
+blew on them. On the Satyr inquiring the reason, he told him that he did
+it to warm his hands. Later on in the day they sat down to eat, the food
+prepared being quite scalding. The Man raised one of his dishes towards
+his mouth and blew in it. On the Satyr again inquiring the reason, he
+said that he did it to cool the meat. "I can no longer consider you as
+a friend," said the Satyr; "a fellow who with the same breath blows hot
+and cold I could never trust."
+
+A man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.
+
+
+
+
+The Oak and the Reeds.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream.
+It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I wonder how you,
+who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong
+winds." They replied:
+
+"You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are
+destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of
+air, and therefore remain unbroken."
+
+Stoop to conquer.
+
+
+
+
+The Huntsman and the Fisherman.
+
+
+A Huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance
+with a Fisherman, bringing home a basket laden with fish. The Huntsman
+wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing
+for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the
+produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain,
+that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. A neighbor
+said to them: "If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy, by
+frequent use, the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to
+retain the fruits of his own sport."
+
+Pleasures are heightened by abstinence.
+
+
+
+
+The Mother and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As
+he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a mother
+say to her child: "Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and
+the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In
+the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child, and saying: "He
+is quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf,
+hearing these words, went home, gaping with cold and hunger.
+
+Be not in haste to believe what is said in anger or thoughtlessness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd[B] and the Wolf.
+
+A Shepherd once found a young Wolf, and brought it up, and after a while
+taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having
+shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd: "Since you have taught
+me to steal, you must keep a sharp look-out, or you will lose some of
+your own flock."
+
+The vices we teach may be practiced against us.
+
+[Transcriber's note B: Original had "Sheperd".]
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young
+ones which she had hatched. A Crow, hearing her, said: "My good friend,
+cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the number of your
+family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this
+prison-house."
+
+To enjoy our blessings we must have freedom.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and the Three Young Men.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old man was planting a tree, three young men came along and began
+to make sport of him, saying: "It shows your foolishness to be planting
+a tree at your age. The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while you
+must very soon die. What is the use of your wasting your time in
+providing pleasure for others to share long after you are dead?" The old
+man stopped in his labor and replied: "Others before me provided for my
+happiness, and it is my duty to provide for those who shall come after
+me. As for life, who is sure of it for a day? You may all die before
+me." The old man's words came true; one of the young men went on a
+voyage at sea and was drowned, another went to war and was shot, and the
+third fell from a tree and broke his neck.
+
+We should not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember that
+life is uncertain.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox entered into partnership with a Lion, on the pretense of becoming
+his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in accordance with his own
+nature and powers. The Fox discovered and pointed out the prey, the
+Lion sprang on it and seized it. The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion
+carrying off the Lion's share, and said that he would no longer find out
+the prey, but would capture it on his own account. The next day he
+attempted to snatch a lamb from the fold, but fell himself a prey to the
+huntsman and his hounds.
+
+Keep to your place, if you would succeed.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Horse had the plain entirely to himself. A Stag intruded into his
+domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to revenge himself
+on the stranger, requested a man, if he were willing, to help him in
+punishing the Stag. The man replied, that if the Horse would receive a
+bit in his mouth, and agree to carry him, he would contrive very
+effectual weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented, and allowed the
+man to mount him. From that hour he found that, instead of obtaining
+revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
+
+He who seeks to injure others often injures only himself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Dolphin.
+
+A Lion, roaming by the sea-shore, saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of
+the waves, and asked him to contract an alliance with him; saying that
+of all the animals, they ought to be the best friends, since the one was
+the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler
+of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The Dolphin gladly consented to
+this request. Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild
+bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him. The Dolphin, though quite
+willing to give him assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by
+any means reach the land. The Lion abused him as a traitor. The Dolphin
+replied: "Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving
+me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living
+upon the land."
+
+Let every one stick to his own element.
+
+
+
+
+The Mice in Council.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Mice summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means
+for obtaining notice of the approach of their great enemy the Cat. Among
+the many plans devised, the one that found most favor was the proposal
+to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, that the Mice, being warned by
+the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves in their
+holes at his approach. But when the Mice further debated who among them
+should thus "bell the Cat," there was no one found to do it.
+
+Let those who propose be willing to perform.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Arab.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him
+which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill. The poor beast
+replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that
+the level way through the desert is closed?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Game Cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farm-yard.
+One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away
+and hid himself in a quiet corner. The conqueror, flying up to a high
+wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An
+Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him, and carried him off in
+his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and
+ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery.
+
+Pride goes before destruction.
+
+
+
+
+The Boys and the Frogs.
+
+
+Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water, and
+began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of
+the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my
+boys; what is sport to you is death to us."
+
+What we do in sport often makes great trouble for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Crab and its Mother.
+
+
+A Crab said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is
+far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied:
+"Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I
+will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted
+without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
+
+Example is more powerful than precept.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherd.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf followed a flock of sheep for a long time, and did not attempt to
+injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against
+him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
+But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep, and
+did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to
+look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of
+evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he
+left the sheep entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now that he had the
+opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the
+flock. The Shepherd, on his return, finding his flock destroyed,
+exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a
+Wolf?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An evil mind will show in evil action, sooner or later.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Lion.
+
+
+A Man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began
+to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and
+prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue, carved in stone,
+which represented "A Lion strangled by a Man." The traveler pointed to
+it and said: "See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even
+the king of beasts." The Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of
+you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the man
+placed under the paw of the Lion."
+
+One story is good till another is told.
+
+
+
+
+The Ox and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ox, drinking at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs, and crushed
+one of them to death. The mother, coming up and missing one of her sons,
+inquired of his brothers what had become of him. "He is dead, dear
+mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the
+pool, and crushed him to death with his cloven heel." The Frog, puffing
+herself out, inquired, "If the beast was as big as that in size."
+"Cease, mother, to puff yourself out," said her son, "and do not be
+angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully
+imitate the hugeness of that monster."
+
+Impossible things we cannot hope to attain, and it is of no use to try.
+
+
+
+
+The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat.
+
+
+The Birds waged war with the Beasts, and each party were by turns the
+conquerors. A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always
+betook himself to that side which was the strongest. When peace was
+proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both the combatants;
+he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed
+himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night.
+
+Those who practice deceit must expect to be shunned.
+
+
+
+
+The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller.
+
+
+A Charcoal-burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met
+a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying
+that they should be far better neighbors, and that their housekeeping
+expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied: "The arrangement is
+impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you
+would immediately blacken again with your charcoal."
+
+Like will draw like.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bull, escaping from a Lion, entered a cave, which some shepherds had
+lately occupied. A He-goat was left in it, who sharply attacked him with
+his horns. The Bull quietly addressed him--"Butt away as much as you
+will. I have no fear of you, but of the Lion. Let that monster once go,
+and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat
+and a Bull."
+
+It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising
+up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse
+piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would
+be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It
+happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters,
+who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his
+roar, came up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and, setting him
+free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help
+you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but
+now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on
+a Lion."
+
+No one is too weak to do good.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Ass.
+
+
+A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Ass
+being heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said the
+Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held his peace,
+and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not long
+afterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner
+to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, thus derided him.
+"Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who art thyself
+reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?"
+
+
+
+
+The Old Hound.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to
+any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
+He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because
+of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly
+coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The
+Hound looked up and said: "It was not my fault, master; my spirit was as
+good as ever, but I could not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve
+to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am."
+
+No one should be blamed for his infirmities.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Pitcher.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water,
+flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his
+grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get
+at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but
+all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he
+could carry, and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher,
+until he brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life.
+
+Necessity is the mother of invention.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Eating Thistles.
+
+
+An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time
+of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the
+reapers to dine upon. By the way he met with a fine large Thistle, and,
+being very hungry, began to mumble it; and while he was doing so he
+entered into this reflection: "How many greedy epicures would think
+themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now
+carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and
+relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet. Let others
+choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine
+juicy thistle like this and I will be content."
+
+Every one to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one
+man's poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may
+be valued very highly by another.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his
+lair. A Lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from
+him. The Wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed: "You have
+unrighteously taken from me that which was mine." The Lion jeeringly
+replied: "It was righteously yours, eh? Was it the gift of a friend, or
+did you get it by purchase? If you did not get it in one way or the
+other, how then did you come by it?"
+
+One thief is no better than another.
+
+
+
+
+The King's Son and the Painted Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A King who had one only son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream in
+which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid lest
+the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace, and
+adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals of the
+size of life, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young
+Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and
+standing near the lion, he thus spoke: "O you most detestable of
+animals! through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his
+sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a
+girl. What shall I now do to you?" With these words he stretched out his
+hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches that
+he might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles pierced his
+finger, and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince
+fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which
+he died not many days after.
+
+We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
+
+
+
+
+The Trees and the Axe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to provide
+him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gave
+him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle
+to his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes
+the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late
+the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "The
+first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the
+ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for
+ages."
+
+In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.
+
+
+
+
+The Seaside Travelers.
+
+
+Some travelers, journeying along the sea-shore, climbed to the summit of
+a tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distance
+what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing it
+enter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked was driven by
+the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be a
+small boat, and not a ship. When, however, it reached the beach, they
+discovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of them
+said to his companions: "We have waited for no purpose, for after all
+there is nothing to see but a fagot."
+
+Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
+
+
+
+
+The Sea-gull and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sea-gull, who was more at home swimming on the sea than walking on the
+land, was in the habit of catching live fish for its food. One day,
+having bolted down too large a fish, it burst its deep gullet-bag, and
+lay down on the shore to die. A Kite, seeing him, and thinking him a
+land bird like itself, exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a
+bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea."
+
+Every man should be content to mind his own business.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Camel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The beasts of the forest gave a splendid entertainment, at which the
+Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat
+down amidst universal applause. The Camel, envious of the praises
+bestowed on the Monkey, and desirous to divert to himself the favor of
+the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn, and dance for their
+amusement. He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner, that the
+Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs, and drove him
+out of the assembly.
+
+It is absurd to ape our betters.
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Elephant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat, traveling on the highway, met a huge elephant, bearing his royal
+master and his suite, and also his favorite cat and dog, and parrot and
+monkey. The great beast and his attendants were followed by an admiring
+crowd, taking up all of the road. "What fools you are," said the Rat to
+the people, "to make such a hubbub over an elephant. Is it his great
+bulk that you so much admire? It can only frighten little boys and
+girls, and I can do that as well. I am a beast; as well as he, and have
+as many legs and ears and eyes. He has no right to take up all the
+highway, which belongs as much to me as to him." At this moment, the cat
+spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced him that he
+was not an elephant.
+
+Because we are like the great in one respect we must not think we are
+like them in all.
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman Piping.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
+sea-shore. Standing on a projecting rock he played several tunes, in the
+hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
+dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
+waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the
+sea, made an excellent haul.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the House-dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a big, well-fed Mastiff, having a wooden collar
+about his neck, inquired of him who it was that fed him so well, and yet
+compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. "The
+master," he replied. Then, said the Wolf: "May no friend of mine ever be
+in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the
+appetite."
+
+Nothing can compensate us for the loss of our liberty.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree, in
+company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you with such a
+rueful look?" "I seek," she replied, "for a mate suitable for me, and am
+not able to find one." "Take me," returned the Kite; "I am much stronger
+than you are." "Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your
+plunder?" "Well, I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my
+talons." The Eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
+Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said: "Fly off, and bring me back
+the ostrich you promised me." The Kite, soaring aloft into the air,
+brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. "Is this," said the Eagle,
+"the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?" The Kite replied:
+"That I might attain to your royal hand, there is nothing that I would
+not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the
+performance."
+
+Promises of a suitor must be taken with caution.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Hides.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river.
+Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it
+fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they
+reached the hides.
+
+Attempt not impossibilities.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman and the Little Fish
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a
+single small fish as the result of his day's labor. The fish, panting
+convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what good can I be
+to you, and how little am I worth! I am not yet come to my full size.
+Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea. I shall soon become a
+large fish, fit for the tables of the rich; and then you can catch me
+again, and make a handsome profit of me." The fisherman replied: "I
+should be a very simple fellow, if I were to forego my certain gain for
+an uncertain profit."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Purchaser.
+
+
+A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he
+should try him before he bought him. He took the Ass home, and put him
+in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which he left all the
+others, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greatest
+eater of them all. The man put a halter on him, and led him back to his
+owner, saying: "I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just such
+another as the one whom he chose for his companion."
+
+A man is known by the company he keeps.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Shepherd, driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size,
+full of acorns, and, spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbed
+up into the tree, and shook down the acorns. The sheep, eating the
+acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The Shepherd coming down, and seeing
+what was done, said: "O you most ungrateful creatures! you provide wool
+to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him
+who feeds you."
+
+The basest ingratitude is that which injures those who serve us.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, having stolen a bit of flesh, perched in a tree, and held it in
+her beak. A Fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself of the flesh, and
+by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed,
+"in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh,
+if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be
+considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully, having greater
+admiration for the meat than for the crow. But the Crow, all her vanity
+aroused by the cunning flattery, and anxious to refute the reflection
+cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw, and dropped the flesh. The Fox
+quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your
+voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting."
+
+He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it has no good purpose.
+
+
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow.
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow
+put an end to the dispute by saying: "Your feathers are all very well in
+the spring, but mine protect me against the winter."
+
+Fine weather friends are not worth much.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.
+They supposed that it must contain a great lump of gold in its inside,
+and killed it in order that they might get it, when, to their surprise,
+they found that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.
+The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived
+themselves of the gain of which they were day by day assured.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and Death.
+
+
+An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying
+the fagots into the city for sale. One day, being very wearied with his
+long journey, he sat down by the wayside, and, throwing down his load,
+besought "Death" to come. "Death" immediately appeared, in answer to his
+summons, and asked for what reason he had called him. The old man
+replied: "That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my
+shoulders."
+
+We do not always like to be taken at our word.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Leopard.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the
+two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated
+his skin. The Fox, interrupting him, said: "And how much more beautiful
+than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind."
+
+People are not to be judged by their coats.
+
+
+
+
+The Mountain in Labor.
+
+
+A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard;
+and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter.
+While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible
+calamity, out came a Mouse.
+
+Don't make much ado about nothing.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Two Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two men were traveling together, when a bear suddenly met them on their
+path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree, and concealed himself
+in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat
+on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout,
+and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance
+of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he
+will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other traveler
+descended from the tree, and, accosting his friend, jocularly inquired
+"what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear?" His friend replied: "He
+gave me this advice: Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the
+approach of danger."
+
+Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Kite.
+
+
+A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn,
+but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied:
+"Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there
+one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part
+of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them?"
+
+We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in
+adversity.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a Crane, for a large
+sum, to put her head into his throat and draw out the bone. When the
+Crane had extracted the bone, and demanded the promised payment, the
+Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely
+already a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out
+your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a Wolf."
+
+In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape
+injury for your pains.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Cock.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cat caught a Cock, and took counsel with himself how he might find a
+reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him as being a nuisance to
+men, by crowing in the night time, and not permitting them to sleep. The
+Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of
+men, that they might rise betimes, for their labors. The Cat replied:
+"Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain
+supperless;" and he made a meal of him.
+
+It does no good to deny those who make false accusations knowingly.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Horse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf coming out of a field of oats met with a Horse, and thus
+addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of
+capital oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend
+the very sound of whose teeth it will be a pleasure to me to hear." The
+Horse replied: "If oats had been the food for wolves, you would never
+have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."
+
+Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get
+credit for it.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Soldiers and the Robber.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Soldiers, traveling together, were set upon by a Robber. The one
+fled away; the other stood his ground, and defended himself with his
+stout right hand. The Robber being slain, the timid companion runs up
+and draws his sword, and then, throwing back his traveling cloak, says:
+"I'll at him, and I'll take care he shall learn whom he has attacked."
+On this, he who had fought with the Robber made answer: "I only wish
+that you had helped me just now, even if it had been only with those
+words, for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them to be
+true; but now put up your sword in its sheath and hold your equally
+useless tongue, till you can deceive others who do not know you. I,
+indeed, who have experienced with what speed you ran away, know right
+well that no dependence can be placed on your valor."
+
+When a coward is once found out, his pretensions of valor are useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Cat.
+
+
+A Monkey and a Cat lived in the same family, and it was hard to tell
+which was the greatest thief. One day, as they were roaming about
+together, they spied some chestnuts roasting in the ashes. "Come," said
+the cunning Monkey, "we shall not go without our dinner to-day. Your
+claws are better than mine for the purpose; you pull them out of the
+hot ashes and you shall have half." Pussy pulled them out one by one,
+burning her claws very much in doing so. When she had stolen them all,
+she found that the Monkey had eaten every one.
+
+A thief cannot be trusted, even by another thief.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. The pool being dried up under the
+summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As
+they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with
+water, on seeing which, one of the Frogs said to the other: "Let us
+descend and make our abode in this well." The other replied with greater
+caution: "But suppose the water should fail us, how can we get out again
+from so great a depth?"
+
+Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
+
+
+
+
+The Vine and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A
+Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine
+said: "Why do you thus injure me and crop my leaves? Is there no young
+grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for
+if you now crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide
+the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the
+sacrifice."
+
+Retribution is certain.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Boasting Rat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse lived in a granary which became, after a while, the frequent
+resort of a Cat. The Mouse was in great fear and did not know what to
+do. In her strait, she bethought herself of a Rat who lived not far
+away, and who had said in her hearing a hundred times that he was not
+afraid of any cat living. She resolved to visit the bold Rat and ask
+him to drive the Cat away. She found the Rat in his hole and relating
+her story, besought his help. "Pooh!" said the Rat, "You should be bold
+as I am; go straight about your affairs, and do not mind the Cat. I will
+soon follow you, and drive him away." He thought, now, he must do
+something to make good his boast. So he collected all the Rats in the
+neighborhood, resolved to frighten the Cat by numbers. But when they all
+came to the granary, they found that the Cat had already caught the
+foolish Mouse, and a single growl from him sent them all scampering to
+their holes.
+
+Do not rely upon a boaster.
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Fox.
+
+
+Some Dogs, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with
+their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said: "If this lion were alive, you
+would soon find out that his claws were stronger than your teeth."
+
+It is easy to kick a man that is down.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and the House-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Thief came in the night to break into a house. He brought with him
+several slices of meat, that he might pacify the House-dog, so that he
+should not alarm his master by barking. As the Thief threw him the
+pieces of meat, the Dog said: "If you think to stop my mouth, to relax
+my vigilance, or even to gain my regard by these gifts, you will be
+greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me
+more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself you have
+some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my
+master's injury. Besides, this is not the time that I am usually fed,
+which makes me all the more suspicions of your intentions."
+
+He who offers bribes needs watching, for his intentions are not honest.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A sick Stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture-ground. His
+companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each
+one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his
+use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the
+means of living.
+
+Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Fowler and the Ringdove.
+
+
+A Fowler took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied a
+Ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. He
+clapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But,
+just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trod
+upon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg that he was
+forced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. The
+poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began to
+mortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to be
+just. "Fate," said he, "has brought destruction upon me while I was
+contriving the death of another."
+
+Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Kid, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a
+Wolf. He turned round, and said to the Wolf: "I know, friend Wolf, that
+I must be your prey; but before I die, I would ask of you one favor,
+that you will play me a tune, to which I may dance." The Wolf complied,
+and while he was piping, and the Kid was dancing, the hounds, hearing
+the sound, came up and gave chase to the Wolf. The Wolf, turning to the
+Kid, said: "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher,
+should not have turned piper to please you."
+
+Every one should keep his own colors.
+
+
+
+
+The Blind Man and the Whelp.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Blind Man was accustomed to distinguish different animals by touching
+them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a
+request that he would feel it, and say what it was. He felt it, and
+being in doubt, said: "I do not quite know whether it is the cub of a
+Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf; but this I know full well, that it would
+not be safe to admit him to the sheepfold."
+
+Evil tendencies are shown early in life.
+
+
+
+
+The Geese and the Cranes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A bird-catcher came to
+ensnare them in his nets. The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at
+his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in
+their bodies, were captured.
+
+Those who are caught are not always the most guilty.
+
+
+
+
+The North Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The North Wind and the Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and
+agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a
+wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind first tried his power, and
+blew with all his might; but the keener became his blasts, the closer
+the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all
+hope of victory, he called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun
+suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his
+genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last,
+fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a stream that lay in
+his path.
+
+Persuasion is better than Force.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Laborer and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted
+a severe bite on the Cottager's infant son, of which he died, to the
+great grief of his parents. The father resolved to kill the Snake, and
+the next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, took up his axe;
+but, making too much haste to hit him as he wriggled away, missed his
+head, and cut off only the end of his tail. After some time, the
+Cottager, afraid lest the Snake should bite him also, endeavored to make
+peace, and placed some bread and salt in his hole. The Snake said:
+"There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I
+shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be
+thinking of the death of your son."
+
+It is hard to forget injuries in the presence of him who caused the
+injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Calf.
+
+
+A Bull was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a
+narrow passage which led to his stall. A young Calf came up and offered
+to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
+"Save yourself the trouble," said the Bull; "I knew that way long before
+you were born."
+
+Do not presume to teach your elders.
+
+
+
+
+The Goat and the Ass.
+
+
+A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass. The Goat, envying the Ass on account
+of his greater abundance of food, said: "How shamefully you are treated;
+at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy
+burdens;" and he further advised him that he should pretend to be
+epileptic, and fall into a deep ditch and so obtain rest. The Ass gave
+credence to his words, and, falling into a ditch, was very much bruised.
+His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice. He bade him pour upon
+the wounds the blood of a Goat. They at once killed the Goat, and so
+healed the Ass.
+
+In injuring others we are apt to receive a greater injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Boasting Traveler.
+
+
+A Man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning
+to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic things he had done
+in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said
+that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man
+of his day could leap anywhere near him--and as to that there were in
+Rhodes many persons who saw him do it, and whom he could call as
+witnesses. One of the bystanders, interrupting him, said: "Now, my good
+man, if this be all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to
+be Rhodes and now for your leap."
+
+Cure a boaster by putting his words to the test.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion.
+
+
+An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger,
+approached. He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the
+sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion)
+crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away. The Ass, observing his
+trepidation at the mere crowing of a cock, summoned courage to attack
+him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run no long
+distance when the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to
+pieces.
+
+False confidence often leads into danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag and the Fawn.
+
+
+A Stag, grown old and mischievous, was, according to custom, stamping
+with his foot, making offers with his head, and bellowing so terribly
+that the whole herd quaked for fear of him; when one of the little
+Fawns, coming up, addressed him thus: "Pray, what is the reason that
+you, who are so formidable at all other times, if you do but hear the
+cry of the hounds, are ready to fly out of your skin for fear?" "What
+you observe is true," replied the Stag, "though I know not how to
+account for it. I am indeed vigorous and able, and often resolve that
+nothing shall ever dismay my courage; but, alas! I no sooner hear the
+voice of a hound but my spirits fail me, and I cannot help making off as
+fast as my legs can carry me."
+
+The greatest braggarts are the greatest cowards.
+
+
+
+
+The Partridge and the Fowler.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fowler caught a Partridge, and was about to kill him. The Partridge
+earnestly besought him to spare his life, saying: "Pray, master, permit
+me to live, and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for
+your mercy to me." The Fowler replied: "I shall now with the less
+scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost
+of betraying your friends and relations;" and without more ado he
+twisted his neck and put him in his bag with his other game.
+
+Those who would sacrifice their friends to save themselves from harm are
+not entitled to mercy.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Stork.
+
+
+A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a
+quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped
+a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly
+besought the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray, save me, Master," he said,
+"and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity.
+Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and
+see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too at my
+feathers, they are not the least like to those of a Crane." The Farmer
+laughed aloud, and said: "It may be all as you say; I only know this, I
+have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their
+company."
+
+Birds of a feather flock together.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Driver.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and
+bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. When he was in the act of
+throwing himself over, his owner, seizing him by the tail, endeavored to
+pull him back. The Ass persisting in his effort, the man let him go,
+and said: "Conquer; but conquer to your cost."
+
+The perverse generally come to harm.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Hound
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up
+the chase. A Goat-herd, seeing him stop, mocked him, saying: "The little
+one is the best runner of the two." The hound replied; "You do not see
+the difference between us; I was only running for a dinner, but he for
+his life."
+
+Incentive spurs effort.
+
+
+
+
+The Kites and the Swans.
+
+
+The Kites of old time had, equally with the Swans, the privilege of
+song. But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted
+with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh,
+they forgot how to sing.
+
+The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present
+blessings.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog in the Manger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the
+oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. "What a
+selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he cannot eat the hay
+himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can."
+
+We should not deprive others of blessings because we cannot enjoy them
+ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Serpent.
+
+
+A Crow, in great want of food, saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and
+flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the
+Crow with a mortal wound. The Crow in the agony of death exclaimed: "O
+unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall
+the source of my certain destruction."
+
+What seem to be blessings are not always so.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As the Cat and the Fox were talking politics together, Reynard said:
+"Let things turn out ever so bad, he did not care, for he had a thousand
+tricks for them yet, before they should hurt him." "But pray," says he,
+"Mrs. Puss, suppose there should be an invasion, what course do you
+design to take?" "Nay," says the Cat, "I have but one shift for it, and
+if that won't do, I am undone." "I am sorry for you," replies Reynard,
+"with all my heart, and would gladly help you, but indeed, neighbor, as
+times go, it is not good to trust; we must even be every one for
+himself, as the saying is." These words were scarcely out of his mouth,
+when they were alarmed with a pack of hounds, that came upon them in
+full cry. The Cat, by the help of her single shift, ran up a tree, and
+sat securely among the top branches; from whence she beheld Reynard,
+who had not been able to get out of sight, overtaken with his thousand
+tricks, and torn in as many pieces by the dogs which had surrounded him.
+
+A little common sense is often of more value than much cunning.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Arrow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare, whom he
+sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw him from a place of
+concealment, took an accurate aim, and wounded him mortally. The Eagle
+gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart, and saw in that
+single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself. "It is a
+double grief to me," he exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow
+feathered from my own wings."
+
+The misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct are the hardest to
+bear.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Invited to Supper.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gentleman, having prepared a great feast, invited a Friend to supper;
+and the Gentleman's Dog, meeting the Friend's Dog, "Come," said he, "my
+good fellow, and sup with us to-night." The Dog was delighted with the
+invitation, and as he stood by and saw the preparations for the feast,
+said to himself: "Capital fare indeed! this is, in truth, good luck. I
+shall revel in dainties, and I will take good care to lay in an ample
+stock to-night, for I may have nothing to eat to-morrow." As he said
+this to himself, he wagged his tail, and gave a sly look at his friend
+who had incited him. But his tail wagging to and fro caught the cook's
+eye, who, seeing a stranger, straightway seized him by the legs, and
+threw him out the window to the street below. When he reached the
+ground, he set off yelping down the street; upon which the neighbors'
+dogs ran up to him and asked him how he liked his supper. "In faith,"
+said he, with a sorry smile, "I hardly know, for we drank so deeply,
+that I can't even tell you which way I got out."
+
+Those who enter by the back stairs must not complain if they are thrown
+out by the window.
+
+
+
+
+The Frogs Asking for a King.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to
+Jupiter entreating for a King. He, perceiving their simplicity, cast
+down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash
+occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no
+sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they
+swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so
+to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it. After some time they
+began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a
+Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set
+over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them.
+When the Frogs discovered his easy good-nature, they yet a third time
+sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another
+King. Jupiter, displeased at their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed
+upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.
+
+When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.
+
+
+
+
+The Prophet.
+
+
+A Wizard, sitting in the market-place, told the fortunes of the
+passers-by. A person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that
+the doors of his house had been broken open, and that all his goods
+were being stolen. He sighed heavily, and hastened away as fast as he
+could run. A neighbor saw him running, and said: "Oh! you follow those?
+you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not
+foresee your own?"
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and his Master's Dinner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog had been taught to take his master's dinner to him every day. As
+he smelled the good things in the basket, he was sorely tempted to taste
+them, but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day to
+carry the basket faithfully. One day all the dogs in the neighborhood
+followed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, and tried to steal the
+dinner from the basket. At first the faithful dog tried to run away
+from them, but they pressed him so close that at last he stopped to
+argue with them. This was what the thieves desired, and they soon
+ridiculed him to that extent that he said: "Very well, I will divide
+with you," and he seized the best piece of chicken in the basket, and
+left the rest for the others to enjoy.
+
+He who stops to parley with temptation, will be very likely to yield.
+
+
+
+
+The Buffoon and the Countryman.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A rich nobleman once opened the theater to the public without charge,
+and gave notice that he would handsomely reward any one who would
+produce a new amusement. A Buffoon, well known for his jokes, said that
+he had a kind of entertainment that had never been produced in a
+theater. This report, being spread about, created a great stir in the
+place, and the theater was crowded to see the new entertainment. The
+Buffoon appeared, and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so
+admirably with his voice, that the audience declared that he had a
+porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out. When
+that was done, and yet nothing was found, they cheered the actor, with
+the loudest applause. A countryman in the crowd proclaimed that he would
+do the same thing on the next day. On the morrow a still larger crowd
+assembled in the theater. Both of the performers appeared on the stage.
+The Buffoon grunted and squeaked, and obtained, as on the preceding
+day, the applause and cheers of the spectators. Next the Countryman
+commenced, and pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his
+clothes (which in truth he did), contrived to lay hold of and to pull
+his ear, when he began to squeak. The crowd, however, cried out that the
+Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation. On this the Rustic
+produced the pig, and showed them the greatness of their mistake.
+
+Critics are not always to be depended upon.
+
+
+
+
+The Boar and the Ass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind
+to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant." The Boar,
+somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to him, and told him he
+was surprised to hear him utter so impudent an untruth, and was just
+going to show his resentment by giving him a rip in the flank; but
+wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying: "Go, you
+sorry beast! I do not care to foul my tusks with the blood of so base a
+creature."
+
+Dignity cannot afford to quarrel with its inferiors.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, having fallen into a well, could find no means of escape. A Goat,
+overcome with thirst, came to the well, and, seeing the Fox, inquired if
+the water was good. The Fox, concealing his sad plight under a merry
+guise, indulged in lavish praise of the water, saying it was beyond
+measure excellent, and encouraged him to descend. The Goat, mindful only
+of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, when, just as he quenched his
+thirst, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in, and
+suggested a scheme for their common escape. "If," said he, "you will
+place your fore-feet upon the wall, and bend your head, I will run up
+your back and escape, and will help you out." On the Goat readily
+assenting to this proposal, the Fox leaped upon his back, and steadying
+himself with the goat's horns reached in safety the mouth of the well,
+and immediately made off as fast as he could. The Goat upbraided him
+with the breach of his bargain, when he turned round and cried out:
+"You foolish fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have
+hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had
+inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which
+you had determined upon no means of escape."
+
+Look before you leap.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Butchers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Oxen, once on a time, sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced
+a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to
+carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. One
+of them, an exceedingly old one (for many a field had he ploughed), thus
+spoke: "These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with
+skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we
+shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a
+double death; for you may be assured that, though all the Butchers
+should perish, yet will men never want beef."
+
+Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and his Rider.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Horse-soldier took great pains with his charger. As long as the war
+lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies, and
+fed him carefully with hay and corn. When the war was over, he only
+allowed him chaff to eat, and made him carry heavy loads of wood, and
+subjected him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. War, however,
+being again proclaimed, the Soldier put on his charger its military
+trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse
+fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden,
+and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for
+you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."
+
+He who slights his friends when they are not needed must not expect them
+to serve him when he needs them.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Hare.
+
+
+A Hound, having started a Hare on the hill-side, pursued her for some
+distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her
+life, and at another time fawning upon her, as if in play with another
+dog. The Hare said to him: "I wish you would act sincerely by me, and
+show yourself in your true colors. If you are a friend, why do you bite
+me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?"
+
+They are no friends whom you know not whether to trust or to distrust.
+
+
+
+
+The Fawn and his Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A young Fawn once said to his mother: "You are larger than a dog, and
+swifter, and more used to running; why, then, O Mother! are you always
+in such a terrible fright of the hounds?" She smiled, and said: "I know
+full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you
+mention, but yet when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to
+faint."
+
+No arguments will give courage to the coward.
+
+
+
+
+The Lark and her Young Ones.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lark had made her nest in the young green wheat. The brood had almost
+grown, when the owner of the field, overlooking his crop, said: "I must
+send to all my neighbors to help me with my harvest." One of the young
+Larks heard him, and asked his mother to what place they should move for
+safety. "There is no occasion to move yet, my son," she replied. The
+owner of the field came a few days later, and said: "I will come myself
+to-morrow, and will get in the harvest." Then the Lark said to her
+brood: "It is time now to be off--he no longer trusts to his friends,
+but will reap the field himself."
+
+Self-help is the best help.
+
+
+
+
+The Bowman and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very skillful Bowman went to the mountains in search of game. All the
+beasts of the forest fled at his approach. The Lion alone challenged him
+to combat. The Bowman immediately let fly an arrow; and said to the
+Lion: "I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I
+myself shall be when I assail thee." The Lion, thus wounded, rushed,
+away in great fear, and on a Fox exhorting him to be of good courage,
+and not to run away at the first attack, he replied: "You counsel me in
+vain, for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the
+attack of the man himself?"
+
+A man who can strike from a distance is no pleasant neighbor.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Filberts.
+
+
+A Boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many
+as he could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to pull out his hand,
+he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher, which was
+much smaller than his closed hand. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and
+yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, and bitterly
+lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him: "Be satisfied with
+half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
+
+Do not attempt too much at once.
+
+
+
+
+The Woman and her Hen.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Woman possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often
+thought with herself how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
+one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a
+double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek,
+and never once laid another egg.
+
+Covetousness overreacheth itself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lamb and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain temple. The
+Wolf called out to him and said: "The priest will slay you in
+sacrifice, if he should catch you;" on which the Lamb replied: "It would
+be better for me to be sacrificed in the temple, than to be eaten by
+you."
+
+It is safer to be among friends than enemies.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Gardener.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gardener, who lived alone, became discontented, and set out, one day,
+to seek a friend who would be a suitable companion. He had not gone far
+when he met a Bear, whom he invited to come and live with him. The Bear
+was a very silly one, who was also discontented with living alone, so he
+went home with the Gardener very willingly. The Gardener provided all
+the food, and the only service he required of the Bear was to keep the
+flies off his face while he slept in the shade. One day, a fly insisted
+upon lighting on the Gardener's face, although he was brushed off again
+and again. The silly Bear finally became so enraged that he threw a
+heavy stone upon it. He killed the fly, but, alas! he also killed his
+friend.
+
+Better have no friend at all than a foolish one.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer and the Ox.
+
+
+A Heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plough, and tormented him
+with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
+Shortly afterward, at the harvest home, the owner released the Ox from
+his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords, and led her away to the altar
+to be slain in honor of the festival. The Ox saw what was being done,
+and said to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness,
+because you were presently to be sacrificed."
+
+The lives of the idle can best be spared.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to live
+near each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Fox
+crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,
+when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provision
+for her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,
+and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering what
+had happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for her
+inability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon
+the Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were
+sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carried
+with it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned the
+spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were
+roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
+The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle.
+
+The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk and the Nightingale.
+
+
+A Nightingale, sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by a Hawk, who made a
+swoop down, and seized him. The Nightingale earnestly besought the Hawk
+to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger
+of a Hawk, who ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk said: "I
+should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready to my
+hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within
+sight."
+
+A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Swallow.
+
+
+A Hen finding the eggs of a viper, and carefully keeping them warm,
+nourished them into life. A Swallow observing what she had done, said:
+"You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when they
+shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all of us, beginning
+with yourself?"
+
+If we nourish evil, it will sooner or later turn upon us.
+
+
+
+
+The Herdsman and the Lost Bull.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Herdsman, tending kine in a forest, lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
+After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only
+discover the thief who had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb in
+sacrifice to the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as
+he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the
+Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to
+heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian
+Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but
+now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown
+Bull to the Calf I have lost, and give them both to the guardians of the
+forest, if I may only secure my own escape from this terrible Lion in
+safety."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That which we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more anxious to
+escape from, when we have succeeded in finding it.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd's Boy and Wolf.
+
+
+A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out
+the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when
+his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The
+Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really
+alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the
+Wolf is killing the sheep;" but no one paid any heed to his cries.
+
+There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk
+to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into
+the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of
+them in a single day, than the Kite could possibly pounce upon in a
+whole year.
+
+Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Cranes.
+
+
+Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plough-lands newly sown
+with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling,
+chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found
+that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice
+of it, and would not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling
+with stones, and killed a great number. They at once forsook his
+plough-lands, and cried to each other: "It is time for us to be off, for
+this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
+earnest what he can do."
+
+If words suffice not, blows must follow.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Mice.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain house was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this, made her
+way into it, and began to catch and eat them one by one. The Mice, being
+continually devoured, kept themselves close in their holes. The Cat, no
+longer able to get at them, perceived that she must tempt them forth by
+some device. For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and, suspending
+herself from it, pretended to be dead. When the Mice came near she
+pounced among them and killed a great number. Pleased with the success
+of the trick, she tried another. She whitened herself with flour, and
+lay still on the heap of bags, as though she was one of them. The young
+Mice crept dangerously near her, but an old one peeping stealthily out
+said: "Ah, my good madam, though you should turn into a real flour-bag,
+I will not come too near you."
+
+Avoid even appearances of danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and his Sons.
+
+
+A Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among
+themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,
+he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done
+so, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them in succession,
+and ordered them to break it in pieces. They each tried with all their
+strength, and were not able to do it. He next unclosed the faggot, and
+took the sticks, separately, one by one, and again put them into their
+hands, on which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these
+words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other,
+you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all attempts of your enemies;
+but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily
+as these sticks."
+
+Disunited families are easily injured by others.
+
+
+
+
+The Owl and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Owl who was sitting in a hollow tree, dozing away a summer's
+afternoon, was very much disturbed by a rogue of a Grasshopper singing
+in the grass beneath. So far from keeping quiet, or moving away at the
+request of the Owl, the Grasshopper sang all the more, and called her an
+old blinker, that only came out at night when all honest people had gone
+to bed. The Owl waited in silence for a time, and then artfully
+addressed the Grasshopper as follows: "Well, my dear, if one cannot be
+allowed to sleep, it is something to be kept awake by such a pleasant
+voice. And now I think of it, I have a bottle of delicious nectar. If
+you will come up, you shall have a drop." The silly Grasshopper, came
+hopping up to the Owl, who at once caught and killed him, and finished
+her nap in comfort.
+
+Flattery is not a proof of admiration.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Grapes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a
+trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but
+wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she
+turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying: "The
+Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."
+
+Revile not things beyond your reach.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass carrying the Image.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden
+Image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along
+made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they
+bowed their heads in token of respect for him, bristled up with pride
+and gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver,
+seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and
+said: "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men
+pay worship to an Ass."
+
+They are not wise who take to themselves the credit due to others.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Lap-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty. The Ass was
+left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any
+other Ass would. The Lap-dog was a great favorite with his master, and
+he frisked and jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see. The Ass had
+much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill, and in carrying wood from
+the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard
+fate, and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lap-dog,
+till at last one day he broke his halter, and galloped into his master's
+house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as
+well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen
+the Lap-dog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon
+it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his
+back. The servants hearing the strange hubbub, and perceiving the danger
+of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his
+stable, with kicks, and clubs, and cuffs. The Ass, beaten nearly to
+death, thus lamented: "I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not
+have been contented to labor with my companions, and not try to live by
+idleness?"
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of
+her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering
+near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give
+him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air. "I will give
+you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to
+fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons, he carried
+her almost to the clouds,--when suddenly letting her go, she fell on a
+lofty mountain, and dashed her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed
+in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I
+to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the
+earth?"
+
+If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
+
+
+
+
+The Porcupine and the Snakes.
+
+
+A Porcupine, wanting to shelter himself, desired a nest of Snakes to
+give him admittance into their cave. They were prevailed upon, and let
+him in accordingly; but were so annoyed with his sharp prickly quills
+that they soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the
+Porcupine to withdraw, and leave them their hole to themselves. "No,"
+says he, "let them quit the place that don't like it; for my part, I am
+well enough satisfied as I am."
+
+Hospitality is a virtue, but should be wisely exercised; we may by
+thoughtlessness entertain foes instead of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox who had Lost his Tail.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, caught in a trap, escaped with the loss of his "brush."
+Henceforth, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to
+which he was exposed, he schemed to bring all the other Foxes into a
+like condition with himself. He publicly advised them to cut off their
+tails, saying "that they would not only look much better without them,
+but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush." One of them
+said: "If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not
+thus counsel us."
+
+Advice prompted by selfishness should not be heeded.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Lion.
+
+
+A Lion, worn out with years, lay on the ground at the point of death. A
+Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long
+remembered injury. Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him
+as if he were an enemy. When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
+assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and
+immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up, inquired the
+cause of his lameness. The Ass said that he had a thorn in his foot, and
+requested the Wolf to pull it out. The Wolf consenting, the Ass with his
+heels kicked his teeth into his mouth, and galloped away. The Wolf
+said: "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing,
+when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?"
+
+Every one to his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Groom.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his
+Horse, but at the same time stole his oats, and sold them for his own
+profit. "Alas!" said the Horse, "if you really wish me to be in good
+condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more."
+
+If you wish to do a service, do it right.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being
+intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the traveler stopped
+to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
+As this afforded only protection for one, and as the traveler and the
+owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them
+as to which of them had the right to it. The owner maintained that he
+had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The traveler asserted that he
+had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel
+proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought the Ass galloped
+off.
+
+In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Loaded Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling
+the road together. The Ass, ready to faint under his heavy load,
+entreated the Horse to assist him, and lighten his burden, by taking
+some of it upon his back. The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do
+it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway,
+and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden, and laid it
+upon the Horse, together with the skin of the dead Ass.
+
+Laziness often prepares a burden for its own back.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Mules and the Robbers.
+
+
+Two Mules laden with packs were trudging along. One carried panniers
+filled with money, the other sacks of grain. The Mule carrying the
+treasure walked with head erect, and tossed up and down the bells
+fastened to his neck. His companion followed with quiet and easy step.
+All on a sudden Robbers rushed from their hiding-places upon them, and
+in the scuffle with their owners wounded the Mule carrying the treasure,
+which they greedily seized upon, while they took no notice of the grain.
+The Mule which had been wounded bewailed his misfortunes. The other
+replied: "I am glad that I was thought so little of, for I have lost
+nothing, nor am I hurt with any wound."
+
+The conspicuous run the greatest risk.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Three Bulls.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Three Bulls for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in ambush in
+the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them whilst
+they kept together. Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in
+separating them, he attacked them without fear, as they fed alone, and
+feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
+
+In union is strength.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his
+mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for another Dog,
+with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his
+own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from
+him. He thus lost both--that which he grasped at in the water, because
+it was a shadow and his own, because the stream swept it away.
+
+It is not wise to be too greedy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ants and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+The Ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in
+the summer time. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and
+earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him: "Why did
+you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied: "I had not
+leisure; I passed the days in singing." They then said: "If you were
+foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed
+in the winter."
+
+Idleness brings want.
+
+
+
+
+The Thirsty Pigeon.
+
+
+A Pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted
+on a sign-board. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew toward
+it with a loud whirr, and unwittingly dashed against the sign-board and
+jarred herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell
+to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
+
+Zeal should not outrun discretion.
+
+
+
+
+The Flies and the Honey.
+
+
+A Jar of Honey having been upset in a housekeeper's room, a number of
+flies were attracted by its sweetness, and placing their feet in it, ate
+it greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that
+they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were
+suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish
+creatures that we are! For the sake of a little pleasure we have
+destroyed ourselves."
+
+
+
+
+The Great and the Little Fishes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman was drawing up a net which he had cast into the sea, full of
+all sorts of fish. The Little Fish escaped through the meshes of the
+net, and got back into the deep, but the Great Fish were all caught and
+hauled into the ship.
+
+Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolves and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Why should there always be this implacable warfare between us?" said
+the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer
+for. They always bark whenever we approach you, and attack us before we
+have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels,
+there might soon be treaties of peace between us." The sheep, poor
+silly creatures! were easily beguiled, and dismissed the Dogs. The
+Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their pleasure.
+
+Change not friends for foes.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Stork.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and provided nothing but a soup, in
+a wide, shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease; but the Stork, who
+could but just dip in the point of his bill, was not a bit better. A few
+days after, he returned the compliment, and invited the Fox; but
+suffered nothing to be brought to the table but some minced meat in a
+glass jar, the neck of which was so deep and so narrow, that, though the
+Stork with his long bill could eat very well, all that the Fox could do
+was to lick the brims. Reynard was heartily vexed, but owned that he had
+been used as he deserved.
+
+Those who practice cunning must expect to suffer by it.
+
+
+
+
+The Bat and the Weasels.
+
+
+A Bat, falling upon the ground, was caught by a Weasel, of whom he
+earnestly besought his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
+nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a
+bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterward the Bat
+again fell on the ground, and was caught by another Weasel, whom he
+likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special
+hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a
+bat; and thus a second time escaped.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Tortoise.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise.
+The latter, laughing, said: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will
+beat you in a race." The Hare, deeming her assertion to be simply
+impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox
+should choose the course, and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the
+race they started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but
+went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
+The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race,
+and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and
+moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal,
+and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
+
+Perseverance is surer than swiftness.
+
+
+
+
+Jupiter and the Monkey.
+
+Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, and
+promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the
+handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest, and presented, with all a
+mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey
+as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on
+the presentation of her son. She resolutely said: "I know not whether
+Jupiter will allot the prize to my son; but this I do know, that he is
+the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all who are here."
+
+A mother's love blinds her to many imperfections.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion in Love.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,
+unwilling to grant and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this
+expedient. He expressed his willingness to accept him as the suitor of
+his daughter on one condition; that he should allow him to extract his
+teeth, and cut off his claws. The Lion cheerfully assented to the
+proposal: when, however, he next repeated his request, the woodman set
+upon him with his club.
+
+
+
+
+The Miser.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Miser had a lump of gold which he buried in the ground, coming to look
+at the spot every day. One day he found that it was stolen, and he began
+to tear his hair and loudly lament. A neighbor, seeing him, said: "Pray
+do not grieve so; bury a stone in the hole, and fancy it is the gold. It
+will serve you just as well, for when the gold was there you made no use
+of it."
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he
+had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly
+besought her to come lower down, lest she should by some mishap get a
+fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that
+the herbage was most tender. She replied: "No, my friend, it is not of
+me you are thinking, but of yourself."
+
+Invitations prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted.
+
+
+
+
+The Bald Knight.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bald Knight, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind
+blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his
+companions. He joined in the joke by saying: "What marvel that hairs
+which are not mine should fly from me, when my own have forsaken even
+the man with whom they were born."
+
+Those who cannot take care of their own, should not be entrusted with
+the care of another's property.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Wood-Cutter.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, running before the hounds, came across a Wood-cutter felling an
+oak, and besought him to show him a safe hiding-place. The Wood-cutter
+advised him to take shelter in his own hut. The Fox crept in, and hid
+himself in a corner. The Huntsman came up, with his hounds, in a few
+minutes, and inquired of the Wood-cutter if he had seen the Fox. He
+declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed, all the time he was
+speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay hid. The Huntsman took no notice
+of the signs, but, believing his word, hastened forward in the chase. As
+soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice
+of the Wood-cutter; whereon he called to him, and reproached him,
+saying: "You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you
+leave me without a word of thanks." The Fox replied: "Indeed, I should
+have thanked you most fervently, if your deeds had been as good as your
+words."
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Kid, mounted on a high rock, bestowed all manner of abuse upon a Wolf
+on the ground below. The Wolf, looking up, replied: "Do not think, vain
+creature, that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as coming not
+from you, but from the place on which you stand."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and a Bear seized upon a kid at the same moment, and fought
+fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated each
+other, and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with
+fatigue. A Fox who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw
+them both stretched on the ground, and the Kid lying untouched in the
+middle, ran in between them, and seizing the Kid, scampered off as fast
+as he could. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get
+up, said: "Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belabored
+ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox!"
+
+It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the
+profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag in the Ox-Stall.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Stag, hardly pressed by the hounds, and blind through fear to the
+danger he was running into, took shelter in a farm-yard, and hid himself
+in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappy
+creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction,
+and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?" The Stag replied: "Do
+you only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to
+find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape." At the approach
+of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the
+Stag. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express
+his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly afforded him help in the
+hour of need. One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well,
+but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the
+shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and, until he has come and
+gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself
+entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly
+fed, he went up to their racks, and cried out: "Why is there such a
+scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.
+Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away." While he thus
+examined everything, he spied the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the
+straw. Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be
+killed.
+
+What is safety for one is not always safety for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a
+lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. A Jackdaw who witnessed the
+capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy, and determined to emulate
+the strength and flight of the Eagle. He flew round with a great whirr
+of his wings, and settled upon a large sheep, with the intention of
+carrying it off, but his claws becoming entangled in its fleece, he was
+unable to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as
+much as he could. The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and
+caught him. He at once clipped his wings, and, taking him home at night,
+gave him to his children.
+
+We should not permit our ambition to lead us beyond the limits of our
+power.
+
+
+
+
+The Three Tradesmen.
+
+
+A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to
+consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer
+present earnestly recommended bricks, as affording the best materials
+for an effectual resistance. A Carpenter, with equal energy, proposed
+timber, as providing a preferable method of defense. Upon which a
+Currier stood up, and said: "Sirs, I differ from you altogether; there
+is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing
+so good as leather."
+
+Every man for his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Dancing Monkeys.
+
+
+A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics
+of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils; and when
+arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of
+the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great applause,
+till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket
+a handful of nuts, and threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys, at the
+sight of the nuts, forgot their dancing, and became (as indeed they
+were) Monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks and tearing
+their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing
+spectacle thus came to an end, amidst the laughter and ridicule of the
+audience.
+
+They who assume a character will betray themselves by their actions.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted;
+and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of
+food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices. They replied:
+"The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a
+short time died of hunger.
+
+Where one may live, another may starve.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Ass in the Lion's Skin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and
+amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in
+his wanderings. At last, meeting a Fox, he tried to frighten him also,
+but the Fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice, than he exclaimed:
+"I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your
+bray."
+
+No disguise will hide one's true character.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy Bathing.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Boy bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out
+to a traveler passing by for help. The traveler, instead of holding out
+a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his
+imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray help me now, and scold me
+afterwards."
+
+Counsel, without help, is useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Fox.
+
+
+The Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught
+in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end. The Cock,
+at a distance, saw what happened, and, hardly yet daring to trust
+himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and
+peeped at him. Reynard addressed himself to him, with all the designing
+artifice imaginable. "Dear cousin," says he, "you see what an
+unfortunate accident has befallen me here, and all upon your account:
+for, as I was creeping through yonder hedge, in my way homeward, I heard
+you crow, and was resolved to ask you how you did before I went any
+farther; but I met with this disaster; and therefore now I must ask you
+for a knife to cut this string; or, at least, to conceal my misfortune
+till I have gnawed it asunder." The Cock, seeing how the case stood,
+made no reply, but posted away as fast as he could, and told the farmer,
+who came and killed the Fox.
+
+To aid the vicious is to become a partner in their guilt.
+
+
+
+
+The Viper and the File.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Viper, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the
+means of satisfying his hunger. He more particularly addressed himself
+to a File, and asked of him the favor of a meal. The File replied: "You
+must indeed be a simple-minded fellow if you expect to get anything from
+me, who am accustomed to take from every one, and never to give anything
+in return."
+
+The covetous are poor givers.
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Axle-Trees.
+
+
+A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen.
+The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen, turning
+round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hallo there! why do you make so much
+noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."
+
+Those who suffer most cry out the least.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Bee-Hives.
+
+
+A Bear that had found his way into a garden where Bees were kept began
+to turn over the hives and devour the honey. The Bees settled in swarms
+about his head, and stung his eyes and nose so much, that, maddened with
+pain, he tore the skin from his head with his own claws.
+
+
+
+
+The Thrush and the Swallow.
+
+
+A young Thrush, who lived in an orchard once became acquainted with a
+Swallow. A friendship sprang up between them; and the Swallow, after
+skimming the orchard and the neighboring meadow, would every now and
+then come and visit the Thrush. The Thrush, hopping from branch to
+branch, would welcome him with his most cheerful note. "O mother!" said
+he to his parent one day, "never had creature such a friend as I have in
+this same Swallow."--"Nor ever any mother," replied the parent-bird,
+"such a silly son as I have in this same Thrush. Long before the
+approach of winter, your friend will have left you; and while you sit
+shivering on a leafless bough he will be sporting under sunny skies
+hundreds of miles away."
+
+
+
+
+The Sensible Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Fellow, in time of war, was allowing his Ass to feed in a green
+meadow, when he was alarmed by a sudden advance of the enemy. He tried
+every means in his power to urge the Ass to fly, but in vain. "The
+enemy are upon us!" said he. "And what will the enemy do?" asked the
+Ass. "Will they put two pairs of panniers on my back, instead of
+one?"--"No," answered the Man; "there is no fear of that."--"Why, then,"
+replied the Ass, "I'll not stir an inch. I am born to be a slave; and my
+greatest enemy is he who gives me most to carry."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.
+By-and-by they came to a cave, where wild goats abode. The Lion took up
+his station at the mouth of the cave, and the Ass, going within, kicked
+and brayed, and made a mighty fuss to frighten them out. When the Lion
+had caught them, the Ass came out and asked him if he had not made a
+noble fight. "Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would
+have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Ape.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Upon the decease of the Lion, the beasts of the forest assembled to
+choose another king. The Ape played so many grimaces, gambols, and antic
+tricks, that he was elected by a large majority; and the crown was
+placed upon his head. The Fox, envious of this distinction, seeing, soon
+after, a trap baited with a piece of meat, approached the new king, and
+said with mock humility: "May it please your majesty, I have found on
+your domain a treasure, to which, if you will deign to accompany me, I
+will conduct you." The Ape thereupon set off with the Fox, and, on
+arriving at the spot, laid his paw upon the meat. Snap! went the trap,
+and caught him by the fingers. Mad with the shame and the pain, he
+reproached the Fox for a false thief and a traitor. Reynard laughed
+heartily, and said, with a sneer: "You a king, and not understand a
+trap!"
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Wolf, roaming by the mountain's side, saw his own shadow, as the sun
+was setting, become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to
+himself: "Why should I, being of such an immense size, and extending
+nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Ought I not to be
+acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?" While he was
+indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him, and killed him.
+He exclaimed with a too-late repentance, "Wretched me! this
+over-estimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."
+
+It is not wise, to hold too exalted an opinion of one's self.
+
+
+
+
+The Miller, his Son and their Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A miller and his Son were driving their Ass to a fair. On the way, they
+met a troop of girls. "Look there!" cried one of them, "did you ever see
+such fools, to be trudging along on foot when they might be riding?"
+The old Man, hearing this, quietly bade his Son get on the Ass, and
+walked along merrily by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate. "There!"
+said one of them, "it proves what I was saying. What respect is shown to
+old age in these days? Do you see that idle young rogue riding, while
+his old father has to walk?--Get down, you scapegrace! and let the old
+Man rest his weary limbs." Upon this the Father made his Son dismount,
+and got up himself. In this manner they had not proceeded far when they
+met a company of women and children. "Why, you lazy old fellow!" cried
+several tongues at once, "how can you ride upon the beast, while that
+poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you." The
+good-natured Miller immediately took up his Son behind him. They had now
+almost reached the town. "Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is
+that Ass your own?" "Yes," says the old Man. "Oh! One would not have
+thought so by the way you load him. Why, you two fellows are better
+able to carry the poor beast than he you!" "Anything to please you,"
+said the old Man. So, alighting with his Son, they tied the Ass's legs
+together, and by the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on their
+shoulders over a bridge. The people ran out in crowds to laugh at the
+sight; till the Ass, not liking the noise nor his situation, kicked
+asunder the cords and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Upon
+this the old Man made the best of his way home with his Son--convinced
+that, by endeavoring to please every-body, he had succeeded in pleasing
+nobody, and lost his Ass into the bargain.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Travelers and the Plane-Tree.
+
+
+Two Travelers, worn out by the heat of the summer's sun, laid themselves
+down at noon under the wide-spreading branches of a Plane-tree. As they
+rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other: "What a
+singularly useless tree is the Plane. It bears no fruit, and is not of
+the least service to man." The Plane-tree interrupting him said: "You
+ungrateful fellows! Do you, while receiving benefits from me, and
+resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and
+unprofitable?"
+
+Some men despise their best blessings because they come without cost.
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Two Ducks.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, becoming tired of her humble home, resolved to visit foreign
+lands, but she did not know which way to go. She repaired to two Ducks
+to show her the road, and they told her that the best way to travel was
+through the air. On her imploring their help, they made her grasp a
+stick with her mouth, and so they bore her aloft. As they flew along,
+the gaping people beneath shouted at sight of the spectacle. The vain
+Tortoise mistook their shouts for applause. "I am surely a queen," said
+she. But, alas! as she opened her mouth to speak she lost her hold of
+the stick, and, falling to the ground, was dashed to pieces.
+
+Those who are not able to roam should stay at home.
+
+
+
+
+The Countryman and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Villager found a Snake under a hedge, almost dead with cold. He could
+not help having a compassion for the poor creature, so he brought it
+home, and laid it upon the hearth near the fire; but it had not lain
+there long, before (being revived with the heat) it began to erect
+itself, and fly at his wife and children. The Countryman, hearing an
+outcry, and perceiving what the matter was, caught up a mattock, and
+soon dispatched him, upbraiding him at the same time in these words: "Is
+this, vile wretch, the reward you make to him that saved your life?"
+
+Kindness to the ungrateful and the vicious is thrown away.
+
+
+
+
+The Madman who Sold Wisdom.
+
+
+A Madman once set himself up in the market place, and with loud cries
+announced that he would sell Wisdom. The people at once crowded about
+him, and some gave him gold for his wares, but they each got only a blow
+on the ear and a bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their
+companions. One of them, however, took it more seriously than the
+others, and asked a wise sage what it meant. "It means," said the sage,
+"that if one would not be hurt by a Madman, he must put a bunch of
+thread over his ears." So the Madman was really selling Wisdom.
+
+
+
+
+The Leopard and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Leopard, being no longer able, by reason of old age, to pursue his
+prey, feigned illness, and gave out that he would confer great favors
+upon any animal that would cure him. A cunning Fox heard of the
+proclamation, and lost no time in visiting the Leopard, first making
+himself look as much like a physician as he could. On seeing him, the
+Leopard declared that such a distinguished looking animal could not
+fail to cure him. This so flattered the Fox that he came near, and at
+once fell a victim to his vanity, being unable to flee because of the
+disguise, which fettered his limbs.
+
+Flattery is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an enemy.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare afraid of his Ears.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Lion, being badly hurt by the horns of a goat, swore in a great rage
+that every animal with horns should be banished from his kingdom. A
+silly Hare, seeing the shadow of his ears, was in great fear lest they
+should be taken for horns, and scampered away.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked a Crane that passed by,
+ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage, and saying: "I am robed like a
+king, in gold and purple, and all the colors of the rainbow; while you
+have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," replied the Crane, "but
+I soar to the heights of heaven, and lift up my voice to the stars,
+while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."
+
+Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Weasel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little starveling Mouse had made his way with some difficulty into a
+basket of corn, where, finding the entertainment so good, he stuffed and
+crammed himself to such an extent, that when he would have got out again
+he found the hole was too small to allow his puffed-up body to pass. As
+he sat at the hole groaning over his fate, a Weasel, who was brought to
+the spot by his cries, thus addressed him: "Stop there, my friend, and
+fast till you are thin; for you will never come out till you reduce
+yourself to the same condition as when you entered."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Tiger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A skillful archer, coming into the woods, directed his arrows so
+successfully that he slew many wild beasts, and pursued several others.
+This put the whole savage kind into a fearful consternation, and made
+them fly to the most retired thickets for refuge. At last, the Tiger
+resumed courage, and, bidding them not be afraid, said that he alone
+would engage the enemy; telling them they might depend upon his valor
+and strength to revenge their wrongs. In the midst of these threats,
+while he was lashing himself with his tail, and tearing up the ground
+for anger, an arrow pierced his ribs, and hung by its barbed point in
+his side. He set up an hideous and loud roar, occasioned by the anguish
+which he felt, and endeavored to draw out the painful dart with his
+teeth; when the Fox, approaching him, inquired with an air of surprise
+who it was that could have strength and courage enough to wound so
+mighty and valorous a beast! "Ah!" says the Tiger, "I was mistaken in my
+reckoning: it was that invincible man yonder."
+
+There is always some vulnerable point in the strongest armor.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Turkeys.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox spied some turkeys roosting in a tree. He managed to attract
+their attention and then ran about the tree, pretended to climb, walked
+on his hind legs, and did all sorts of tricks. Filled with fear, the
+Turkeys watched every one of his movements until they became dizzy, and,
+one by one, fell from their safe perch.
+
+By too much attention to danger, we may fall victims to it.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle had made her nest at the top of a lofty oak. A Cat, having
+found a convenient hole, lived with her kittens in the middle of the
+trunk; and a Wild Sow with her young had taken shelter in a hollow at
+its foot. The Cat resolved to destroy by her arts this chance-made
+colony. She climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said: "Destruction is
+preparing for you, and for me too. The Wild Sow, whom you may see daily
+digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, that she may, on its
+fall, seize our families as food." Then she crept down to the cave of
+the Sow and said: "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you
+shall go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to
+pounce upon one of your little pigs." When night came, she went forth
+with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens; but,
+feigning to be afraid, she kept a look-out all through the day.
+Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the
+branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out
+from her cave; and thus they each, with their families, perished from
+hunger.
+
+Those who stir up enmities are not to be trusted.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Magpie.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Birds once met together to choose a king; and, among others, the
+Peacock was a candidate. Spreading his showy tail, and stalking up and
+down with affected grandeur, he caught the eyes of the silly multitude
+by his brilliant appearance, and was elected with acclamation. The
+Magpie then stepped forth into the midst of the assembly, and thus
+addressed the new king: "May it please your majesty, elect to permit a
+humble admirer to propose a question. As our king, we put our lives and
+fortunes in your hands. If, therefore, the Eagle, the Vulture, and the
+Kite, should make a descent upon us, what means would you take for our
+defense?" This pithy question opened the eyes of the Birds to the
+weakness of their choice and they canceled the election.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Goats.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Goats started at the same moment, from opposite ends, to cross a
+rude bridge that was only wide enough for one to cross at a time.
+Meeting at the middle of the bridge, neither would give way to the
+other. They locked horns and fought for the right of way, until they
+both fell into the torrent below and were drowned.
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Ant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being
+carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of being
+drowned. A Dove, sitting on a tree overhanging the water, plucked a
+leaf, and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant, climbing on
+to it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher
+came close and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the
+Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung
+him in the foot. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made
+the Dove take wing.
+
+The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one
+another's nests. The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon
+and in eating the young ones of the Beetle. The Beetle got by stealth at
+the Eagle's eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the
+Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter. On the Eagle making his
+complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while
+Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and
+Jupiter, rising up unawares to drive him away from his head, threw down
+the eggs, and broke them.
+
+The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though
+they be the more powerful.
+
+
+
+
+The Mule.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mule, frolicsome from want of work and from overmuch corn, galloped
+about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father
+surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and
+spirit." On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very
+weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake;
+my father, after all, could have been only an ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Cat, the Weasel and the Rabbit.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While a Rabbit was absent from his hole one day, a Weasel took
+possession of it. On the Rabbit's return, seeing the Weasel's nose
+sticking out, he said: "You must leave this hole immediately. There is
+only room for one, and it has always belonged to me and my fathers
+before me." "The more reason that you should give it up now," said the
+Weasel, "and leave its possession to me." As they could not settle the
+dispute, they agreed to leave the question of ownership to a wise old
+Cat, to whom they went without more ado. "I am deaf," said the Cat. "Put
+your noses close to my ears." No sooner had they done so, than she
+clapped a paw upon each of them, and killed them both.
+
+The strong are apt to settle all questions by the rule of might.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat in an evil day made acquaintance with a Frog, and they set off on
+their travels together. The Frog, on pretense of great affection, and of
+keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the Rat's foot to his own
+hind-leg, and thus they proceeded for some distance by land. Presently
+they came to some water, and the Frog, bidding the Rat have good
+courage, began to swim across. They had scarcely, however, arrived
+midway, when the Frog took a sudden plunge to the bottom, dragging the
+unfortunate Rat after him. But the struggling and floundering of the Rat
+made so great a commotion in the water that it attracted the attention
+of a Kite, who, pouncing down and bearing off the Rat, carried away the
+Frog at the same time in his train.
+
+Inconsiderate and ill-matched alliances generally end in ruin; and the
+man who compasses the destruction of his neighbor, is often caught in
+his own snare.
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and the Sheep.
+
+
+There was a certain Widow who had an only Sheep, and, wishing to make
+the most of his wool, she sheared him so closely that she cut his skin
+as well as his fleece. The Sheep, smarting under this treatment, cried
+out: "Why do you torture me thus? What will my blood add to the weight
+of the wool? If you want my flesh, Dame, send for the Butcher, who will
+put me out of my misery at once; but if you want my fleece, send for the
+Shearer, who will clip my wool without drawing my blood."
+
+Economy may be carried too far.
+
+
+
+
+The Man Bitten by a Dog.
+
+
+A Man who had been bitten by a Dog was going about asking who could cure
+him. One that met him said: "Sir, if you would be cured, take a bit of
+bread and dip it in the blood of the wound, and give it to the dog that
+bit you." The Man smiled, and said: "If I were to follow your advice, I
+should be bitten by all the dogs in the city."
+
+He who proclaims himself ready to buy up his enemies will never want a
+supply of them.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Horse grazing in a field. Putting on a grave air, he
+approached him and said: "Sir, you must be very ill; I have some skill
+as a physician, and if you will tell me where your ailment is, I shall
+be glad to be of service." Said the horse: "If you will examine my foot,
+you will find what ails me." But as the wily Wolf approached him, with a
+kick he sent him flying into the air.
+
+
+
+
+The Goatherd and the Goats.
+
+
+It was a stormy day, and the snow was falling fast, when a Goatherd
+drove his Goats, all white with snow, into a desert cave for shelter.
+There he found that a herd of Wild Goats, more numerous and larger than
+his own, had already taken possession. So, thinking to secure them all,
+he left his own Goats to take care of themselves, and threw the branches
+which he had brought for them to the Wild Goats to browse on. But when
+the weather cleared up, he found his own Goats had perished from hunger,
+while the Wild Goats were off and away to the hills and woods. So the
+Goatherd returned a laughing-stock to his neighbors, having failed to
+gain the Wild Goats, and having lost his own.
+
+They who neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones, are rightly
+served if they lose both.
+
+
+
+
+The Goose with the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain man had the good fortune to possess a Goose that laid him a
+Golden Egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and
+thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the Goose, and
+cutting her open, found her--just what any other goose would be!
+
+Much wants more, and loses all.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old
+wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former
+contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing
+it backwards and forwards, said: "O most delicious! How nice must the
+Wine itself have been when it leaves behind in the very vessel which
+contained it so sweet a perfume!"
+
+The memory of a good deed lives.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Carrying Salt.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had
+cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some. Having
+loaded the beast as much as he could bear, he was driving him home,
+when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into
+the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his
+burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey
+onward, light in body and in spirit. The Huckster soon afterwards set
+off for the sea-shore for some more Salt, and loaded the Ass, if
+possible, yet more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed
+the stream into which he had formerly fallen, the Ass fell down on
+purpose, and by the dissolving of the Salt, was again released from his
+load. The Master, provoked at the loss, and thinking how he might cure
+him of this trick, on his next journey to the coast freighted the beast
+with a load of sponges. When they arrived at the same stream as before,
+the Ass was at his old tricks again, and rolled himself into the water;
+but he found to his cost, as he proceeded homewards, that instead of
+lightening his burden, he had more than doubled its weight.
+
+The same measures will not suit all circumstances.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Bull.
+
+
+A Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of a Bull, at length
+settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding
+him; "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say
+so, and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your head about
+that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all one to me whether you go or stay;
+and, to say the truth, I did not know you were there."
+
+The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Gnat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As a Gnat was buzzing around a Lion, the Lion said to him: "How dare you
+approach so near? Be off, or I will kill you with the least stroke of
+my paw." The Gnat, knowing the advantage of his small size, and his
+alertness, immediately challenged the boaster to combat, and alighting
+first upon his nose and then upon his tail, made the Lion so furious
+that he injured himself grievously with his paws. As the Gnat flew away
+he boasted of his own prowess in thus defeating the King of Beasts
+without the slightest injury to himself. But, in his carelessness, he
+flew directly into a spider's web, and the spider instantly seized and
+killed him.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Hunting.
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox formed a party to go out hunting. They
+took a large booty, and when the sport was ended, bethought themselves
+of having a hearty meal. The Lion bade the Ass allot the spoil. So,
+dividing it into three equal parts, the Ass begged his friends to make
+their choice; at which the Lion, in great indignation, fell upon the Ass
+and tore him to pieces. He then bade the Fox make a division; who,
+gathering the whole into one great heap, reserved but the smallest mite
+for himself. "Ah! friend," says the Lion, "who taught you to make so
+equitable a division?" "I wanted no other lesson," replied the Fox,
+"than the Ass's fate."
+
+Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Whose Ears were Cropped.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog complained of the cruelty of her master in cutting off her ears,
+and was so ashamed of her appearance that she resolved to stay in her
+kennel with her family. A friendly hunting dog said to her: "If you had
+been peaceful, and not always fighting, you would have saved your ears
+and your good looks. If you will fight, it is a kindness to crop your
+ears, that they may not give your enemy the advantage."
+
+
+
+
+The Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A dispute once arose between the Wind and the Sun, which was the
+stronger of the two, and they agreed to settle the point upon this
+issue--that whichever of the two soonest made a traveler take off his
+cloak, should be accounted the more powerful. The Wind began, and blew
+with all his might and main a blast, cold and fierce as a Thracian
+storm; but the stronger he blew, the closer the traveler wrapped his
+cloak around him, and the tighter he grasped it with his hands. Then
+broke out the Sun. With his welcome beams he dispersed the vapor and the
+cold; the traveler felt the genial warmth, and as the Sun shone brighter
+and brighter, he sat down, quite overcome with the heat, and taking off
+his cloak, cast it on the ground.
+
+Thus the Sun was declared the conqueror; and it has ever been deemed
+that persuasion is better than force; and that the sunshine of a kind
+and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor man's heart than all the
+threatenings and force of blustering authority.
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Boar and the Fox.
+
+
+A Wild Boar was whetting his tusks against a tree, when a Fox coming by,
+asked why he did so; "for," said he, "I see no reason for it; there is
+neither hunter nor hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can see,
+at hand." "True," replied the Boar; "but when that danger does arise, I
+shall have something else to do than to sharpen my weapons."
+
+It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds to draw it.
+
+
+
+
+The Hunter and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A greedy Hunter one day shot a fine Deer, and ere he could dress it, a
+pretty Fawn came that way, and an arrow brought it to the ground. A Boar
+now chanced to be passing, and the Hunter wounded it so that it lay upon
+the ground as if dead. Not satisfied with this game, he must needs
+pursue a Partridge that came fluttering near, and while he was doing so
+the wounded Boar regained enough strength to spring upon him and kill
+him. A Wolf came that way, and seeing the four dead bodies, said: "Here
+is food for a month; but I will save the best, and be content to-day
+with the bow-string." But when he seized the string it loosened the
+fixed arrow, which shot him through the heart.
+
+The greedy man and the miser cannot enjoy their gains.
+
+
+
+
+The Astronomer.
+
+
+An Astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars. It
+happened one night that, with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies,
+he fell into a well. One who heard his cries ran up to him, and said:
+"While you are trying to pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook
+the common objects under your feet."
+
+We should never look so high as to miss seeing the things that are
+around us.
+
+
+
+
+The Bulls and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Bulls lived in the same herd, and each aspiring to be the leader and
+master, they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old Frog, who sat on
+the bank of a stream near by, began to groan and to quake with fear. A
+thoughtless young Frog said to the old one: "Why need you be afraid?
+What is it to you that the Bulls fight for supremacy?" "Do you not see,"
+said the old Frog, "that one must defeat the other, and that the
+defeated Bull, being driven from the field, will be forced to stay in
+the marshes, and will thus trample us to death?"
+
+The poor and weak are often made to suffer for the follies of the
+great.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and His Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Schoolboy stole a horn-book from one of his schoolfellows, and brought
+it home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, she rather encouraged
+him in the deed. In course of time the boy, now grown into a man, began
+to steal things of greater value, until, at last, being caught in the
+very act, he was brought to the Judge and sentenced to be hung. As he
+was being led to the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the ground
+with grief. A neighbor seeing her thus, said to her: "It is too late for
+you to moan and sob now. If you had been as much grieved when he
+committed his first theft, you would have corrected him in time, and
+thus have saved yourself this sorrowful day."
+
+Nip evil in the bud.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and His Two Wives.
+
+
+In days when a man was allowed more wives than one, a middle-aged
+bachelor, who could be called neither young nor old, and whose hair was
+only just beginning to turn gray, must needs fall in love with two women
+at once, and marry them both. The one was young and blooming, and wished
+her husband to appear as youthful as herself; the other was somewhat
+more advanced in age, and was as anxious that her husband should appear
+a suitable match for her. So, while the young one seized every
+opportunity of pulling out the good man's gray hairs, the old one was
+as industrious in plucking out every black hair she could find, till he
+found that, between the one and the other, he had not a hair left.
+
+He that submits his principles to the influence and caprices of opposite
+parties will end in having no principles at all.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer, the Goat, the Sheep and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Heifer, a Goat, a Sheep, and a Lion formed a partnership, and agreed
+to divide their earnings. The Goat having snared a stag, they sent for
+the Lion to divide it for them. The Lion said: "I will make four
+parts--the first shall be mine as judge; the second, because I am
+strongest; the third, because I am bravest; and the fourth--I will kill
+any one who dares touch it."
+
+He who will steal a part will steal the whole.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Travelers on a desert saw a Camel in the distance, and were greatly
+frightened at his huge appearance, thinking it to be some huge monster.
+While they hid behind some low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they
+discovered that it was only a harmless Camel which had excited their
+fears.
+
+Distance exaggerates dangers.
+
+
+
+
+The Swan and the Goose.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. He fed the
+one for his table, and kept the other for the sake of its song. When the
+time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to take him at night,
+when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the
+other, and he caught the Swan instead of the Goose. The Swan, threatened
+with death, burst forth into song, and thus made himself known by his
+voice, and preserved his life by his melody.
+
+Sweet words may deliver us from peril, when harsh words would fail.
+
+
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Sprat.
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Whales were at war with one another, and the Sprat
+stepped in and endeavored to separate them. But one of the Dolphins
+cried out: "We would rather perish in the contest, than be reconciled by
+you."
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sea.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Shepherd moved down his flock to feed near the shore, and beholding
+the Sea lying in a smooth calm, he was seized with a strong desire to
+sail over it. So he sold all his sheep and bought a cargo of Dates, and
+loaded a vessel, and set sail. He had not gone far when a storm arose;
+his ship was wrecked, and his Dates and everything lost, and he himself
+with difficulty escaped to land. Not long after, when the Sea was again
+calm, and one of his friends came up to him and was admiring its repose,
+he said: "Have a care, my good fellow, of that smooth surface, it is
+only looking out for your Dates."
+
+
+
+
+The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp.
+
+
+Some Bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak. The Drones
+asserted that it was their doing, and belonged to them. The cause was
+brought into court before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the parties,
+he thus addressed them: "The plaintiffs and defendants are so much alike
+in shape and color as to render the ownership a doubtful matter. Let
+each party take a hive to itself, and build up a new comb, that from the
+shape of the cells and the taste of the honey, the lawful proprietors of
+the property in dispute may appear." The Bees readily assented to the
+Wasp's plan. The Drones declined it. Whereupon the Wasp gave judgment:
+"It is clear now who made the comb, and who cannot make it; the Court
+adjudges the honey to the Bees."
+
+Professions are best tested by deeds.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf, the Goat and the Kid.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old Goat was going forth to pasture, she carefully latched her
+door, and bid her kid not to open it to any one who could not give this
+pass-word: "Beware of the Wolf and all his race." A Wolf happened to be
+passing, and overheard what the old Goat said. When she was gone, he
+went to the door, and, knocking, said: "Beware of the Wolf and all his
+race." But the Kid, peeping through a crack, said: "Show me a white paw
+and I will open the door." As the Wolf could not do this, he had to
+depart, no better than he came.
+
+Two sureties are better than one.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Hedgehog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, while crossing over a river, was driven by the stream into a
+narrow gorge, and lay there for a long time unable to get out, covered
+with myriads of horse-flies that had fastened themselves upon him. A
+Hedgehog, who was wandering in that direction, saw him, and taking
+compassion on him, asked him if he should drive away the flies that were
+so tormenting him. But the Fox begged him to do nothing of the sort.
+"Why not?" asked the Hedgehog. "Because," replied the Fox, "these flies
+that are upon me now are already full, and draw but little blood, but
+should you remove them, a swarm of fresh and hungry ones will come, who
+will not leave a drop of blood in my body."
+
+When we throw off rulers or dependents, who have already made the most
+of us, we do but, for the most part, lay ourselves open to others, who
+will make us bleed yet more freely.
+
+
+
+
+The Brazier and His Dog.
+
+
+A Brazier had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master,
+and his constant companion. While he hammered away at his metals the Dog
+slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner, and began to eat,
+the Dog woke up, and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of
+his meal. His master one day, pretending to be angry, and shaking his
+stick at him, said: "You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to
+you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I
+begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do
+you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none
+but those who work are entitled to eat?"
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Ass and the Lion.
+
+
+A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture
+the beasts of the forest with the greater ease. The Lion agreed to
+assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the
+benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as
+their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey,
+and for this purpose divided it into three shares. "I will take the
+first share," he said, "because I am king; and the second share, as a
+partner with you in the chase; and the third share (believe me) will be
+a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and
+set off as fast as you can."
+
+Might makes right.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and His Two Daughters.
+
+
+A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to
+a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the
+gardener, and inquired how she was, and how all things went with her.
+She said: "All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish,
+that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be
+well watered." Not long after he went to the daughter who had married
+the tile-maker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied:
+"I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may
+continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be
+dried." He said to her: "If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry
+weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fir Tree and the Bramble.
+
+
+A Fir Tree said boastingly to the Bramble: "You are useful for nothing
+at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble
+made answer: "You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes
+and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish
+that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree."
+
+Better poverty without care, than riches with.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Monkey.
+
+
+A Monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them
+all by his performance that they elected him their king. A Fox envying
+him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading
+the Monkey to the place where it was, said "that she had found a store,
+but had not used it, but had kept it for him as treasure trove of his
+kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it." The Monkey approached
+carelessly, and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of
+purposely leading him into the snare, she replied: "O Monkey, and are
+you, with such a mind as yours, going to be king over the Beasts?"
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and His Sons.
+
+
+A Farmer being on the point of death, wished to insure from his sons the
+same attention to his farm as he had himself given it. He called them to
+his bedside, and said: "My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of
+my vineyards." The sons, after his death, took their spades and
+mattocks, and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found
+no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and
+superabundant crop.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Birds.
+
+
+A Cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing, dressed
+himself up as a physician, and, taking with him his cane and the
+instruments becoming his profession, went to the aviary, knocked at the
+door, and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they
+were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They
+replied: "We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only
+be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are."
+
+
+
+
+The Stag, the Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Stag asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the
+Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended,
+excused herself, saying: "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants,
+and to run off, and you, too, can quickly out-strip me in your rapid
+flight. How then shall I be able to find you when the day of payment
+comes?"
+
+Two blacks do not make one white.
+
+
+
+
+The Raven and the Swan.
+
+
+A Raven saw a Swan, and desired to secure for himself a like beauty of
+plumage. Supposing that his splendid white color arose from his washing
+in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the
+neighborhood of which he picked up his living, and took up his abode in
+the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he
+could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
+
+Change of habit cannot alter nature.
+
+
+
+
+The Lioness.
+
+
+A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field, as to which of
+the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number
+of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the
+Lioness, and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. "And you,"
+they said, "how many sons have you at a birth?" The Lioness laughed at
+them, and said: "Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a
+thorough-bred Lion."
+
+The value is in the worth, not in the number.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+<h1><span class="smcap">&AElig;sop's Fables</span></h1>
+
+<h3>A NEW REVISED VERSION</h3>
+
+<h4>FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES</h4>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image1.png" width="470" height="371" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h5>WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS</h5>
+
+<h4>BY</h4>
+<h3>HARRISON <ins class="correction" title="Trnascriber's note: original had &quot;WIER&quot;">WEIR</ins>, JOHN TENNIEL, ERNEST GRISET</h3>
+<h4>AND OTHERS</h4>
+
+<div style="height: 3em;"><br /><br /><br /></div>
+
+<h5>NEW YORK<br />
+FRANK F. LOVELL &amp; COMPANY<br />
+<span class="smcap">142 and 144 Worth Street</span>
+</h5>
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image2.png" width="451" height="346" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p class="center">
+<span class="smcap">Copyright</span>, 1884,<br />
+<span class="smcap">By R. WORTHINGTON.</span><br />
+</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>LIFE OF &AElig;SOP.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Life and History of &AElig;sop is involved, like that of Homer, the most
+famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia;
+Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and
+Coti&aelig;um, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the
+distinction of being the birthplace of &AElig;sop. Although the honor thus
+claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet
+there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as
+established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of &AElig;sop. He
+is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the
+year 620 <span class="smcap lower">B.C.</span>, and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned
+by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and
+Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his
+learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient
+republics of Greece was the permission to take an active interest in
+public affairs; and &AElig;sop, like the philosophers Ph&aelig;do, Menippus, and
+Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a
+servile condition to a position of high renown. In his desire alike to
+instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and
+among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia,
+the great patron in that day, of learning and of learned men. He met at
+the court of Cr&oelig;sus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is
+related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the
+conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an
+expression which has since passed into a proverb, "<span class="trans" title="Greek: mallon ho Phryx">&#956;&#8118;&#955;&#955;&#959;&#957;
+&#8001; &#934;&#961;&#8059;&#958;</span>"&mdash;"The Phrygian has spoken better than all."</p>
+
+<p>On the invitation of Cr&oelig;sus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was
+employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of
+state. In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different
+petty republics of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at
+another in Athens, endeavoring, by the narration of some of his wise
+fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the
+administration of their respective rulers, Pariander and Pisistratus.
+One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of
+Cr&oelig;sus, was the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi
+with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so
+provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and
+sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment,
+accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as
+ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. This cruel death of &AElig;sop
+was not unavenged. The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of
+calamities, until they made a public reparation of their crime; and "The
+blood of &AElig;sop" became a well-known adage, bearing witness to the truth
+that deeds of wrong would not pass unpunished. Neither did the great
+fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory
+at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek
+sculptors. Ph&aelig;drus thus immortalizes the event:&mdash;</p>
+
+<div class="poem"><div class="stanza">
+<span>&AElig;sopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici,<br /></span>
+<span>Servumque collocarunt &aelig;terna in basi:<br /></span>
+<span>Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;<br /></span>
+<span>Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam.<br /></span>
+</div></div>
+
+<p>These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of
+certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of &AElig;sop. They were
+first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of
+ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac,
+who declined the honor of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his
+desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He published his
+life of &AElig;sop, Anno Domini 1632. The later investigations of a host of
+English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by
+M. Mezeriac. The substantial truth of his statements has been confirmed
+by later criticism and inquiry.</p>
+
+<p>It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the
+life of &AElig;sop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of
+Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine
+Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the
+fourteenth century. His life was prefixed to all the early editions of
+these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall
+as the introduction to his edition of &AElig;sop. This life by Planudes
+contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd
+pictures of the grotesque deformity of &AElig;sop, of wondrous apocryphal
+stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now
+universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. It is given up
+in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest
+credit.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image3.png" width="479" height="323" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image4.png" width="470" height="210" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<h1>&AElig;SOP'S FABLES.</h1>
+
+<h2>The Wolf Turned Shepherd.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A wolf, finding that the sheep were so afraid of him that he could not
+get near them, disguised himself in the dress of a shepherd, and thus
+attired approached the flock. As he came near, he found the shepherd
+fast asleep. As the sheep did not run away, he resolved to imitate the
+voice of the shepherd. In trying to do so, he only howled, and awoke the
+shepherd. As he could not run away, he was soon killed.</p>
+
+<p>Those who attempt to act in disguise are apt to overdo it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Stag at the Pool.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image5.png" width="430" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A stag saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the
+size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such weak
+feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the
+pool. The Stag betook himself to flight, and kept himself with ease at a
+safe distance from the Lion, until he entered a wood and became
+entangled with his horns. The Lion quickly came up with him and caught
+him. When too late he thus reproached himself: "Woe is me! How have I
+deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I
+gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction."</p>
+
+<p>What is most truly valuable is often underrated.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image6.png" width="460" height="270" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Mask.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A fox entered the house of an actor, and, rummaging through all his
+properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He
+placed his paws on it, and said: "What a beautiful head! yet it is of
+no value, as it entirely wants brains."</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image7.png" width="460" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A fair face is of little use without sense.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bear and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying "that of all
+animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such
+respect for him, that he would not even touch his dead body." A Fox
+hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear: "Oh, that you would
+eat the dead and not the living!"</p>
+
+<p>We should not wait till a person is dead, to give him our respect.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Lamb.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image8.png" width="470" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay
+violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the
+Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last
+year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful
+tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in
+my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted
+grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the
+Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food
+and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying:
+"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my
+imputations."</p>
+
+<p>The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless
+for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor
+intends to be unjust.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image9.png" width="483" height="251" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The One-Eyed Doe.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image10.png" width="480" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Doe, blind of an eye, was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of
+the sea as she possibly could, to secure greater safety. She turned her
+eye towards the land, that she might perceive the approach of a hunter
+or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from which she
+entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen, sailing by, saw
+her, and, taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Said she: "O
+wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land,
+and, after all, to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety,
+so much more perilous."</p>
+
+<p>Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+
+<h2>The Dog, Cock and Fox.</h2>
+
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image11.png"><img src="images/image11a.png" width="473" height="210" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image11.png"><img src="images/image11b.png" width="146" height="273" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image11.png"><img src="images/image11c.png" width="473" height="260" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog and a Cock, traveling together, took shelter at night in a thick
+wood. The Cock perched himself on a high branch, while the Dog found a
+bed at the foot of the tree. When morning dawned, the Cock, as usual,
+crowed very loudly. A Fox, hearing the sound, and wishing to make a
+breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how
+earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so sweet a
+voice.</p>
+
+<p>"If you will admit me," said he, "I should very much like to spend the
+day with you."</p>
+
+<p>The Cock said: "Sir, do me the favor to go round and wake up my porter,
+that he may open the door, and let you in." On the Fox approaching the
+tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him and quickly tore him in pieces.</p>
+
+<p>Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image12.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Mouse, by an unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance with a
+Frog. The Frog one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse
+tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog led his friend toward
+the pool in which he lived, until he reached the very brink, when
+suddenly jumping in, he dragged the Mouse in with him. The Frog enjoyed
+the water amazingly, and swam croaking about as if he had done a
+meritorious action. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated with the
+water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot
+of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it, carried it up
+aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also
+carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.</p>
+
+<p>Harm hatch, harm catch.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog and the Oyster.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Dog, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster, and opening his mouth to its
+widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to
+be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said:
+"I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything
+round must be an egg."</p>
+
+<p>Who acts in haste repents at leisure.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Shepherds.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Wolf passing by, saw some shepherds in a hut eating for their dinner a
+haunch of mutton. Approaching them, he said: "What a clamor you would
+raise, if I were to do as you are doing!"</p>
+
+<p>Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice
+themselves.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hares and the Frogs.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image13.png" width="450" height="390" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Hares, oppressed with a sense of their own exceeding timidity, and
+weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord
+determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles, by jumping
+from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. As they scampered off in
+a very numerous body to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the
+banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet, and rushed
+helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. On seeing the rapid
+disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his
+companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now
+see that other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves."</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image14.png" width="470" height="240" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>We are encouraged by seeing others that are worse off than ourselves.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Boar.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image15.png" width="500" height="400" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst, a Lion
+and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They
+fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon
+engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a
+sudden to take breath for the fiercer renewal of the strife, they saw
+some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should
+fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying: "It is better
+for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures, as
+will certainly happen if we are disabled."</p>
+
+<p>Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of
+their defeat to benefit themselves.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mischievous Dog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image16.png" width="450" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog used to run up quietly to the heels of those he met, and to bite
+them without notice. His master sometimes suspended a bell about his
+neck, that he might give notice of his presence wherever he went, and
+sometimes he fastened a chain about his neck, to which was attached a
+heavy clog, so that he could not be so quick at biting people's heels.</p>
+
+<p>The Dog grew proud of his bell and clog, and went with them all over the
+market-place. An old hound said to him: "Why do you make such an
+exhibition of yourself? That bell and clog that you carry are not,
+believe me, orders of merit, but, on the contrary, marks of disgrace, a
+public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered dog."</p>
+
+<p>Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image17.png" width="477" height="390" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Quack Frog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image18.png" width="480" height="393" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned
+physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you
+pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own
+lame gait and wrinkled skin?"</p>
+
+<p>Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend
+themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image19.png" width="480" height="334" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Ass and the Fox, having entered into a partnership together, went
+out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far, when they met a
+Lion. The Fox approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the
+capture of the Ass, if he would pledge his word that his own life should
+be spared. On his assuring him that he would not injure him, the Fox led
+the Ass to a deep pit, and contrived that he should fall into it. The
+Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox,
+and then attacked the Ass at his leisure.</p>
+
+<p>Traitors must expect treachery.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Sheep.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image20.png" width="444" height="410" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf, being sick and maimed, called to a Sheep, who was passing, and
+asked him to fetch some water from the stream. "For," he said, "if you
+will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat."
+"Yes," said the Sheep, "if I should bring you the draught, you would
+doubtless make me provide the meat also."</p>
+
+<p>Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cock and the Jewel.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image21.png" width="480" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious
+stone; on which he said: "If thy owner had found thee, and not I, he
+would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I
+have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than
+all the jewels in the world."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Two Pots.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image22.png" width="465" height="262" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware,
+and the other of brass. As they floated along on the surface of the
+stream, the Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot: "Pray keep at a distance,
+and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall
+be broken in pieces; and besides, I by no means wish to come near you."</p>
+
+<p>Equals make the best friends.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Gnat and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Gnat came and said to a Lion: "I do not the least fear you, nor are
+you stronger than I am. For in what does your strength consist? You can
+scratch with your claws, and bite with your teeth&mdash;so can a woman in her
+quarrels. I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if
+you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer." The Gnat, having
+sounded his horn, fastened itself upon the Lion, and stung him on the
+nostrils. The Lion, trying to crush him, tore himself with his claws,
+until he punished himself severely. The Gnat thus prevailed over the
+Lion, and buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But shortly
+afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb, and was eaten
+by a spider. He greatly lamented his fate, saying: "Woe is me, that I,
+who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish
+myself from this spider."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Widow and her Little Maidens.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A widow woman, fond of cleaning, had two little maidens to wait on her.
+She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
+The maidens, being aggrieved by such excessive labor, resolved to kill
+the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this,
+they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles,
+for their mistress, no longer hearing the cock, was unable to tell the
+time, and so, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.</p>
+
+<p>Unlawful acts to escape trials only increase our troubles.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image23.png" width="475" height="235" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox who had never yet seen a Lion, when he fell in with him by a
+certain chance for the first time in the forest, was so frightened that
+he was near dying with fear. On his meeting with him for the second
+time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
+On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went
+up to him, and commenced a familiar conversation with him.</p>
+
+<p>Acquaintance softens prejudices.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image24.png" width="450" height="240" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image25.png" width="445" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Country Mouse invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a
+visit, and partake of his country fare. As they were on the bare
+plough-lands, eating their wheat-stalks and roots pulled up from the
+hedge-row, the Town Mouse said to his friend: "You live here the life of
+the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. I am surrounded with
+every luxury, and if you will come with me, as I much wish you would,
+you shall have an ample share of my dainties." The Country Mouse was
+easily persuaded, and returned to town with his friend. On his arrival,
+the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs,
+honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from
+a basket. The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such
+good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, and lamented his
+own hard fate. Just as they were beginning to eat, some one opened the
+door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole
+so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. They had
+scarcely again begun their repast when some one else entered to take
+something out of a cupboard, on which the two Mice, more frightened than
+before, ran away and hid themselves. At last the Country Mouse, almost
+famished, thus addressed his friend: "Although you have prepared for me
+so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is
+surrounded by too many dangers to please me."</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image26.png" width="430" height="260" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Better a little in safety, than an abundance surrounded by danger.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Monkey and the Dolphin.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image27.png" width="450" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Sailor, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him
+while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent
+tempest arose, in which the ship was wrecked, and he, his Monkey and all
+the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A Dolphin saw the Monkey
+contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is
+always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey
+him on his back in safety to the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with
+his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded of the
+Monkey if he were an Athenian, who answered that he was, and that he was
+descended from one of the noblest families in that city.</p>
+
+<p>The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Pir&aelig;us (the famous harbor of
+Athens). The Monkey, supposing that a man was meant, and being obliged
+to support his previous lie, answered that he knew him very well, and
+that he was an intimate friend, who would, no doubt, be very glad to see
+him. The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under
+the water, and drowned him.</p>
+
+<p>He who once begins to tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make
+them appear true, and, sooner or later, they will get him into trouble.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Game-cocks and the Partridge.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Man had two Game-cocks in his poultry yard. One day, by chance, he
+fell in with a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it, and brought it
+home that it might be reared with his Game-cocks. On its being put into
+the poultry-yard, they struck at it, and followed it about, so that the
+Partridge was grievously troubled in mind, and supposed that he was
+thus badly treated because he was a stranger. Not long afterwards he saw
+the Cocks fighting together, and not separating before one had well
+beaten the other. He then said to himself: "I shall no longer distress
+myself at being struck at by these Game-cocks, when I see that they
+cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other."</p>
+
+<p>Strangers should avoid those who quarrel among themselves.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boy and the Nettle.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his mother, saying:
+"Although it pains me so much, I did but touch it ever so gently." "That
+was just it," said his mother, "which caused it to sting you. The next
+time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to
+your hand, and not in the least hurt you."</p>
+
+<p>Whatever you do, do with all your might.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Trumpeter taken Prisoner.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image28.png" width="460" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
+He cried out to his captors: "Pray spare me, and do not take my life
+without cause or without injury. I have not slain a single man of your
+troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet."
+"That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," they
+said, "for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up
+all the other soldiers to battle."</p>
+
+<p>He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fatal Marriage.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Lion, touched with gratitude by the noble procedure of a Mouse, and
+resolving not to be outdone in generosity by any wild beast whatsoever,
+desired his little deliverer to name his own terms, for that he might
+depend upon his complying with any proposal he should make. The Mouse,
+fired with ambition at this gracious offer, did not so much consider
+what was proper for him to ask, as what was in the powers of his prince
+to grant; and so demanded his princely daughter, the young lioness, in
+marriage. The Lion consented; but, when he would have given the royal
+virgin into his possession, she, like a giddy thing as she was, not
+minding how she walked, by chance set her paw upon her spouse, who was
+coming to meet her, and crushed him to pieces.</p>
+
+<p>Beware of unequal matches. Alliances prompted by ambition often prove
+fatal.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and the Charger.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image29.png" width="470" height="250" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully
+provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that
+without hard work. But when war broke out, the heavy armed soldier
+mounted the Horse, and rushed into the very midst of the enemy, and the
+Horse, being wounded, fell dead on the battle-field. Then the Ass,
+seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse,
+saying: "How much more fortunate am I than a charger. I can remain at
+home in safety while he is exposed to all the perils of war."</p>
+
+<p>Be not hasty to envy the condition of others.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Vain Jackdaw.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image30.png" width="500" height="330" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds,
+and made proclamation that, on a certain day, they should all present
+themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful
+among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched
+through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had
+fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of
+his body. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled
+before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his
+many-feathered finery. On Jupiter proposing to make him king, on account
+of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each
+plucking from him his own feathers, the Jackdaw was again nothing but a
+Jackdaw.</p>
+
+<p>Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Milkmaid and her Pot of Milk.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image31.png" width="200" height="450" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Maid was carrying her pail of milk to the farm-house, when she fell
+a-musing. "The money for which this milk will be sold will buy at least
+three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two
+hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for market
+when poultry will fetch the highest price; so that by the end of the
+year I shall have money enough to buy a new gown. In this dress I will
+go to the Christmas junketings, when all the young fellows will propose
+to me, but I will toss my head, and refuse them every one." At this
+moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell
+the Milk-pot to the ground, and broke into a hundred pieces, and all
+her fine schemes perished in a moment.</p>
+
+<p>Count not your chickens before they are hatched.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image32.png" width="480" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Playful Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there,
+broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him, and quickly drove him
+down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. The Ass said:
+"Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed
+heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement."</p>
+
+<p>Those who do not know their right place must be taught it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Man and the Satyr.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image33.png" width="470" height="330" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Man and a Satyr once formed a bond of alliance. One very cold wintry
+day, as they talked together, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and
+blew on them. On the Satyr inquiring the reason, he told him that he did
+it to warm his hands. Later on in the day they sat down to eat, the food
+prepared being quite scalding. The Man raised one of his dishes towards
+his mouth and blew in it. On the Satyr again inquiring the reason, he
+said that he did it to cool the meat. "I can no longer consider you as
+a friend," said the Satyr; "a fellow who with the same breath blows hot
+and cold I could never trust."</p>
+
+<p>A man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Oak and the Reeds.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image34.png" width="440" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream.
+It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I wonder how you,
+who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong
+winds." They replied:</p>
+
+<p>"You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are
+destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of
+air, and therefore remain unbroken."</p>
+
+<p>Stoop to conquer.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Huntsman and the Fisherman.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance
+with a Fisherman, bringing home a basket laden with fish. The Huntsman
+wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing
+for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the
+produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain,
+that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. A neighbor
+said to them: "If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy, by
+frequent use, the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to
+retain the fruits of his own sport."</p>
+
+<p>Pleasures are heightened by abstinence.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mother and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 266px;">
+<a href="images/image35.png"><img src="images/image35a.png" width="266" height="438" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 135px;">
+<a href="images/image35.png"><img src="images/image35b.png" width="135" height="122" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft" style="width: 465px;">
+<a href="images/image35.png"><img src="images/image35c.png" width="465" height="162" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As
+he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a mother
+say to her child: "Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and
+the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In
+the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child, and saying: "He
+is quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf,
+hearing these words, went home, gaping with cold and hunger.</p>
+
+<p>Be not in haste to believe what is said in anger or thoughtlessness.</p>
+
+<div class="center" style="clear: both;">
+<img src="images/image36.png" width="480" height="250" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The <ins class="correction" title="Transcriber's note: original had &quot;Sheperd&quot;">Shepherd</ins> and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+<p>A Shepherd once found a young Wolf, and brought it up, and after a while
+taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having
+shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd: "Since you have taught
+me to steal, you must keep a sharp look-out, or you will lose some of
+your own flock."</p>
+
+<p>The vices we teach may be practiced against us.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dove and the Crow.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image37.png" width="370" height="420" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young
+ones which she had hatched. A Crow, hearing her, said: "My good friend,
+cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the number of your
+family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this
+prison-house."</p>
+
+<p>To enjoy our blessings we must have freedom.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Old Man and the Three Young Men.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image38.png" width="465" height="225" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>As an old man was planting a tree, three young men came along and began
+to make sport of him, saying: "It shows your foolishness to be planting
+a tree at your age. The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while you
+must very soon die. What is the use of your wasting your time in
+providing pleasure for others to share long after you are dead?" The old
+man stopped in his labor and replied: "Others before me provided for my
+happiness, and it is my duty to provide for those who shall come after
+me. As for life, who is sure of it for a day? You may all die before
+me." The old man's words came true; one of the young men went on a
+voyage at sea and was drowned, another went to war and was shot, and the
+third fell from a tree and broke his neck.</p>
+
+<p>We should not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember that
+life is uncertain.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image39.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox entered into partnership with a Lion, on the pretense of becoming
+his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in accordance with his own
+nature and powers. The Fox discovered and pointed out the prey, the
+Lion sprang on it and seized it. The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion
+carrying off the Lion's share, and said that he would no longer find out
+the prey, but would capture it on his own account. The next day he
+attempted to snatch a lamb from the fold, but fell himself a prey to the
+huntsman and his hounds.</p>
+
+<p>Keep to your place, if you would succeed.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and the Stag.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image40.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Horse had the plain entirely to himself. A Stag intruded into his
+domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to revenge himself
+on the stranger, requested a man, if he were willing, to help him in
+punishing the Stag. The man replied, that if the Horse would receive a
+bit in his mouth, and agree to carry him, he would contrive very
+effectual weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented, and allowed the
+man to mount him. From that hour he found that, instead of obtaining
+revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.</p>
+
+<p>He who seeks to injure others often injures only himself.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Dolphin.</h2>
+
+<p>A Lion, roaming by the sea-shore, saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of
+the waves, and asked him to contract an alliance with him; saying that
+of all the animals, they ought to be the best friends, since the one was
+the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler
+of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The Dolphin gladly consented to
+this request. Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild
+bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him. The Dolphin, though quite
+willing to give him assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by
+any means reach the land. The Lion abused him as a traitor. The Dolphin
+replied: "Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving
+me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living
+upon the land."</p>
+
+<p>Let every one stick to his own element.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mice in Council.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image41.png" width="450" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Mice summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means
+for obtaining notice of the approach of their great enemy the Cat. Among
+the many plans devised, the one that found most favor was the proposal
+to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, that the Mice, being warned by
+the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves in their
+holes at his approach. But when the Mice further debated who among them
+should thus "bell the Cat," there was no one found to do it.</p>
+
+<p>Let those who propose be willing to perform.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Camel and the Arab.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image42.png" width="450" height="250" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him
+which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill. The poor beast
+replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that
+the level way through the desert is closed?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image43.png" width="470" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two Game Cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farm-yard.
+One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away
+and hid himself in a quiet corner. The conqueror, flying up to a high
+wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An
+Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him, and carried him off in
+his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and
+ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery.</p>
+
+<p>Pride goes before destruction.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boys and the Frogs.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water, and
+began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of
+the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my
+boys; what is sport to you is death to us."</p>
+
+<p>What we do in sport often makes great trouble for others.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Crab and its Mother.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Crab said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is
+far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied:
+"Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I
+will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted
+without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.</p>
+
+<p>Example is more powerful than precept.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Shepherd.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image44.png" width="456" height="255" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf followed a flock of sheep for a long time, and did not attempt to
+injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against
+him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
+But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep, and
+did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to
+look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of
+evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he
+left the sheep entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now that he had the
+opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the
+flock. The Shepherd, on his return, finding his flock destroyed,
+exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a
+Wolf?"</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image45.png" width="460" height="510" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An evil mind will show in evil action, sooner or later.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Man and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began
+to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and
+prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue, carved in stone,
+which represented "A Lion strangled by a Man." The traveler pointed to
+it and said: "See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even
+the king of beasts." The Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of
+you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the man
+placed under the paw of the Lion."</p>
+
+<p>One story is good till another is told.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ox and the Frog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image46.png" width="460" height="410" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ox, drinking at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs, and crushed
+one of them to death. The mother, coming up and missing one of her sons,
+inquired of his brothers what had become of him. "He is dead, dear
+mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the
+pool, and crushed him to death with his cloven heel." The Frog, puffing
+herself out, inquired, "If the beast was as big as that in size."
+"Cease, mother, to puff yourself out," said her son, "and do not be
+angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully
+imitate the hugeness of that monster."</p>
+
+<p>Impossible things we cannot hope to attain, and it is of no use to try.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Birds waged war with the Beasts, and each party were by turns the
+conquerors. A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always
+betook himself to that side which was the strongest. When peace was
+proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both the combatants;
+he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed
+himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night.</p>
+
+<p>Those who practice deceit must expect to be shunned.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Charcoal-burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met
+a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying
+that they should be far better neighbors, and that their housekeeping
+expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied: "The arrangement is
+impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you
+would immediately blacken again with your charcoal."</p>
+
+<p>Like will draw like.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bull and the Goat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image47.png" width="480" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Bull, escaping from a Lion, entered a cave, which some shepherds had
+lately occupied. A He-goat was left in it, who sharply attacked him with
+his horns. The Bull quietly addressed him&mdash;"Butt away as much as you
+will. I have no fear of you, but of the Lion. Let that monster once go,
+and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat
+and a Bull."</p>
+
+<p>It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Mouse.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image48.png" width="480" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising
+up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse
+piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would
+be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It
+happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters,
+who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his
+roar, came up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and, setting him
+free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help
+you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but
+now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on
+a Lion."</p>
+
+<p>No one is too weak to do good.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and the Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Ass
+being heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said the
+Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held his peace,
+and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not long
+afterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner
+to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, thus derided him.
+"Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who art thyself
+reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Old Hound.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image49.png" width="430" height="410" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Hound, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to
+any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
+He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because
+of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly
+coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The
+Hound looked up and said: "It was not my fault, master; my spirit was as
+good as ever, but I could not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve
+to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am."</p>
+
+<p>No one should be blamed for his infirmities.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Crow and the Pitcher.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image50.png" width="420" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Crow, perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water,
+flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his
+grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get
+at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but
+all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he
+could carry, and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher,
+until he brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life.</p>
+
+<p>Necessity is the mother of invention.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass Eating Thistles.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time
+of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the
+reapers to dine upon. By the way he met with a fine large Thistle, and,
+being very hungry, began to mumble it; and while he was doing so he
+entered into this reflection: "How many greedy epicures would think
+themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now
+carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and
+relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet. Let others
+choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine
+juicy thistle like this and I will be content."</p>
+
+<p>Every one to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one
+man's poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may
+be valued very highly by another.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image51.png" width="460" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his
+lair. A Lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from
+him. The Wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed: "You have
+unrighteously taken from me that which was mine." The Lion jeeringly
+replied: "It was righteously yours, eh? Was it the gift of a friend, or
+did you get it by purchase? If you did not get it in one way or the
+other, how then did you come by it?"</p>
+
+<p>One thief is no better than another.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The King's Son and the Painted Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image52.png" width="460" height="400" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A King who had one only son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream in
+which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid lest
+the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace, and
+adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals of the
+size of life, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young
+Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and
+standing near the lion, he thus spoke: "O you most detestable of
+animals! through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his
+sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a
+girl. What shall I now do to you?" With these words he stretched out his
+hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches that
+he might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles pierced his
+finger, and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince
+fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which
+he died not many days after.</p>
+
+<p>We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Trees and the Axe.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image53.png" width="460" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to provide
+him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gave
+him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle
+to his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes
+the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late
+the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "The
+first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the
+ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for
+ages."</p>
+
+<p>In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Seaside Travelers.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some travelers, journeying along the sea-shore, climbed to the summit of
+a tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distance
+what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing it
+enter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked was driven by
+the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be a
+small boat, and not a ship. When, however, it reached the beach, they
+discovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of them
+said to his companions: "We have waited for no purpose, for after all
+there is nothing to see but a fagot."</p>
+
+<p>Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Sea-gull and the Kite.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image54.png" width="460" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Sea-gull, who was more at home swimming on the sea than walking on the
+land, was in the habit of catching live fish for its food. One day,
+having bolted down too large a fish, it burst its deep gullet-bag, and
+lay down on the shore to die. A Kite, seeing him, and thinking him a
+land bird like itself, exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a
+bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea."</p>
+
+<p>Every man should be content to mind his own business.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Monkey and the Camel.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image55.png" width="480" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The beasts of the forest gave a splendid entertainment, at which the
+Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat
+down amidst universal applause. The Camel, envious of the praises
+bestowed on the Monkey, and desirous to divert to himself the favor of
+the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn, and dance for their
+amusement. He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner, that the
+Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs, and drove him
+out of the assembly.</p>
+
+<p>It is absurd to ape our betters.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Rat and the Elephant.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image56.png" width="470" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Rat, traveling on the highway, met a huge elephant, bearing his royal
+master and his suite, and also his favorite cat and dog, and parrot and
+monkey. The great beast and his attendants were followed by an admiring
+crowd, taking up all of the road. "What fools you are," said the Rat to
+the people, "to make such a hubbub over an elephant. Is it his great
+bulk that you so much admire? It can only frighten little boys and
+girls, and I can do that as well. I am a beast; as well as he, and have
+as many legs and ears and eyes. He has no right to take up all the
+highway, which belongs as much to me as to him." At this moment, the cat
+spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced him that he
+was not an elephant.</p>
+
+<p>Because we are like the great in one respect we must not think we are
+like them in all.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fisherman Piping.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image57.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
+sea-shore. Standing on a projecting rock he played several tunes, in the
+hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
+dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
+waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the
+sea, made an excellent haul.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the House-dog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image58.png" width="479" height="390" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf, meeting with a big, well-fed Mastiff, having a wooden collar
+about his neck, inquired of him who it was that fed him so well, and yet
+compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. "The
+master," he replied. Then, said the Wolf: "May no friend of mine ever be
+in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the
+appetite."</p>
+
+<p>Nothing can compensate us for the loss of our liberty.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle and the Kite.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image59.png" width="480" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree, in
+company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you with such a
+rueful look?" "I seek," she replied, "for a mate suitable for me, and am
+not able to find one." "Take me," returned the Kite; "I am much stronger
+than you are." "Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your
+plunder?" "Well, I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my
+talons." The Eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
+Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said: "Fly off, and bring me back
+the ostrich you promised me." The Kite, soaring aloft into the air,
+brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. "Is this," said the Eagle,
+"the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?" The Kite replied:
+"That I might attain to your royal hand, there is nothing that I would
+not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the
+performance."</p>
+
+<p>Promises of a suitor must be taken with caution.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dogs and the Hides.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image60.png" width="460" height="375" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river.
+Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it
+fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they
+reached the hides.</p>
+
+<p>Attempt not impossibilities.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fisherman and the Little Fish</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image61.png" width="400" height="420" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fisherman who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a
+single small fish as the result of his day's labor. The fish, panting
+convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what good can I be
+to you, and how little am I worth! I am not yet come to my full size.
+Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea. I shall soon become a
+large fish, fit for the tables of the rich; and then you can catch me
+again, and make a handsome profit of me." The fisherman replied: "I
+should be a very simple fellow, if I were to forego my certain gain for
+an uncertain profit."</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image62.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and his Purchaser.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he
+should try him before he bought him. He took the Ass home, and put him
+in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which he left all the
+others, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greatest
+eater of them all. The man put a halter on him, and led him back to his
+owner, saying: "I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just such
+another as the one whom he chose for his companion."</p>
+
+<p>A man is known by the company he keeps.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Shepherd and the Sheep.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Shepherd, driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size,
+full of acorns, and, spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbed
+up into the tree, and shook down the acorns. The sheep, eating the
+acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The Shepherd coming down, and seeing
+what was done, said: "O you most ungrateful creatures! you provide wool
+to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him
+who feeds you."</p>
+
+<p>The basest ingratitude is that which injures those who serve us.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Crow.</h2>
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image63.png"><img src="images/image63a.png" width="474" height="164" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image63.png"><img src="images/image63b.png" width="132" height="334" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image63.png"><img src="images/image63c.png" width="474" height="236" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A Crow, having stolen a bit of flesh, perched in a tree, and held it in
+her beak. A Fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself of the flesh, and
+by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed,
+"in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh,
+if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be
+considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully, having greater
+admiration for the meat than for the crow. But the Crow, all her vanity
+aroused by the cunning flattery, and anxious to refute the reflection
+cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw, and dropped the flesh. The Fox
+quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your
+voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting."</p>
+
+<p>He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it has no good purpose.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Swallow and the Crow.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow
+put an end to the dispute by saying: "Your feathers are all very well in
+the spring, but mine protect me against the winter."</p>
+
+<p>Fine weather friends are not worth much.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hen and the Golden Eggs.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image64.png" width="400" height="500" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.
+They supposed that it must contain a great lump of gold in its inside,
+and killed it in order that they might get it, when, to their surprise,
+they found that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.
+The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived
+themselves of the gain of which they were day by day assured.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image65.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Old Man and Death.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying
+the fagots into the city for sale. One day, being very wearied with his
+long journey, he sat down by the wayside, and, throwing down his load,
+besought "Death" to come. "Death" immediately appeared, in answer to his
+summons, and asked for what reason he had called him. The old man
+replied: "That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my
+shoulders."</p>
+
+<p>We do not always like to be taken at our word.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Leopard.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image66.png" width="450" height="190" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Fox and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the
+two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated
+his skin. The Fox, interrupting him, said: "And how much more beautiful
+than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind."</p>
+
+<p>People are not to be judged by their coats.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mountain in Labor.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard;
+and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter.
+While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible
+calamity, out came a Mouse.</p>
+
+<p>Don't make much ado about nothing.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bear and the Two Travelers.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image67.png"><img src="images/image67a.png" width="282" height="140" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image67.png"><img src="images/image67b.png" width="174" height="284" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image67.png"><img src="images/image67c.png" width="475" height="341" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>Two men were traveling together, when a bear suddenly met them on their
+path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree, and concealed himself
+in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat
+on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout,
+and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance
+of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he
+will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other traveler
+descended from the tree, and, accosting his friend, jocularly inquired
+"what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear?" His friend replied: "He
+gave me this advice: Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the
+approach of danger."</p>
+
+<p>Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Sick Kite.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn,
+but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied:
+"Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there
+one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part
+of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them?"</p>
+
+<p>We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in
+adversity.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Crane.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image68.png" width="440" height="490" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf, having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a Crane, for a large
+sum, to put her head into his throat and draw out the bone. When the
+Crane had extracted the bone, and demanded the promised payment, the
+Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely
+already a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out
+your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a Wolf."</p>
+
+<p>In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape
+injury for your pains.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cat and the Cock.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image69.png" width="460" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Cat caught a Cock, and took counsel with himself how he might find a
+reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him as being a nuisance to
+men, by crowing in the night time, and not permitting them to sleep. The
+Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of
+men, that they might rise betimes, for their labors. The Cat replied:
+"Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain
+supperless;" and he made a meal of him.</p>
+
+<p>It does no good to deny those who make false accusations knowingly.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Horse.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image70.png" width="420" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf coming out of a field of oats met with a Horse, and thus
+addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of
+capital oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend
+the very sound of whose teeth it will be a pleasure to me to hear." The
+Horse replied: "If oats had been the food for wolves, you would never
+have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."</p>
+
+<p>Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get
+credit for it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Two Soldiers and the Robber.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image71.png" width="450" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two Soldiers, traveling together, were set upon by a Robber. The one
+fled away; the other stood his ground, and defended himself with his
+stout right hand. The Robber being slain, the timid companion runs up
+and draws his sword, and then, throwing back his traveling cloak, says:
+"I'll at him, and I'll take care he shall learn whom he has attacked."
+On this, he who had fought with the Robber made answer: "I only wish
+that you had helped me just now, even if it had been only with those
+words, for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them to be
+true; but now put up your sword in its sheath and hold your equally
+useless tongue, till you can deceive others who do not know you. I,
+indeed, who have experienced with what speed you ran away, know right
+well that no dependence can be placed on your valor."</p>
+
+<p>When a coward is once found out, his pretensions of valor are useless.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Monkey and the Cat.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Monkey and a Cat lived in the same family, and it was hard to tell
+which was the greatest thief. One day, as they were roaming about
+together, they spied some chestnuts roasting in the ashes. "Come," said
+the cunning Monkey, "we shall not go without our dinner to-day. Your
+claws are better than mine for the purpose; you pull them out of the
+hot ashes and you shall have half." Pussy pulled them out one by one,
+burning her claws very much in doing so. When she had stolen them all,
+she found that the Monkey had eaten every one.</p>
+
+<p>A thief cannot be trusted, even by another thief.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Two Frogs.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image72.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. The pool being dried up under the
+summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As
+they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with
+water, on seeing which, one of the Frogs said to the other: "Let us
+descend and make our abode in this well." The other replied with greater
+caution: "But suppose the water should fail us, how can we get out again
+from so great a depth?"</p>
+
+<p>Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Vine and the Goat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image73.png" width="450" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A
+Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine
+said: "Why do you thus injure me and crop my leaves? Is there no young
+grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for
+if you now crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide
+the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the
+sacrifice."</p>
+
+<p>Retribution is certain.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mouse and the Boasting Rat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image74.png" width="470" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Mouse lived in a granary which became, after a while, the frequent
+resort of a Cat. The Mouse was in great fear and did not know what to
+do. In her strait, she bethought herself of a Rat who lived not far
+away, and who had said in her hearing a hundred times that he was not
+afraid of any cat living. She resolved to visit the bold Rat and ask
+him to drive the Cat away. She found the Rat in his hole and relating
+her story, besought his help. "Pooh!" said the Rat, "You should be bold
+as I am; go straight about your affairs, and do not mind the Cat. I will
+soon follow you, and drive him away." He thought, now, he must do
+something to make good his boast. So he collected all the Rats in the
+neighborhood, resolved to frighten the Cat by numbers. But when they all
+came to the granary, they found that the Cat had already caught the
+foolish Mouse, and a single growl from him sent them all scampering to
+their holes.</p>
+
+<p>Do not rely upon a boaster.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dogs and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some Dogs, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with
+their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said: "If this lion were alive, you
+would soon find out that his claws were stronger than your teeth."</p>
+
+<p>It is easy to kick a man that is down.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Thief and the House-Dog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image75.png" width="450" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Thief came in the night to break into a house. He brought with him
+several slices of meat, that he might pacify the House-dog, so that he
+should not alarm his master by barking. As the Thief threw him the
+pieces of meat, the Dog said: "If you think to stop my mouth, to relax
+my vigilance, or even to gain my regard by these gifts, you will be
+greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me
+more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself you have
+some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my
+master's injury. Besides, this is not the time that I am usually fed,
+which makes me all the more suspicions of your intentions."</p>
+
+<p>He who offers bribes needs watching, for his intentions are not honest.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Sick Stag.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image76.png" width="440" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A sick Stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture-ground. His
+companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each
+one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his
+use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the
+means of living.</p>
+
+<p>Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fowler and the Ringdove.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Fowler took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied a
+Ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. He
+clapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But,
+just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trod
+upon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg that he was
+forced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. The
+poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began to
+mortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to be
+just. "Fate," said he, "has brought destruction upon me while I was
+contriving the death of another."</p>
+
+<p>Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Kid and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image77.png" width="400" height="430" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Kid, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a
+Wolf. He turned round, and said to the Wolf: "I know, friend Wolf, that
+I must be your prey; but before I die, I would ask of you one favor,
+that you will play me a tune, to which I may dance." The Wolf complied,
+and while he was piping, and the Kid was dancing, the hounds, hearing
+the sound, came up and gave chase to the Wolf. The Wolf, turning to the
+Kid, said: "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher,
+should not have turned piper to please you."</p>
+
+<p>Every one should keep his own colors.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Blind Man and the Whelp.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image78.png" width="250" height="440" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Blind Man was accustomed to distinguish different animals by touching
+them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a
+request that he would feel it, and say what it was. He felt it, and
+being in doubt, said: "I do not quite know whether it is the cub of a
+Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf; but this I know full well, that it would
+not be safe to admit him to the sheepfold."</p>
+
+<p>Evil tendencies are shown early in life.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Geese and the Cranes.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image79.png"><img src="images/image79a.png" width="138" height="232" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image79.png"><img src="images/image79b.png" width="450" height="308" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A bird-catcher came to
+ensnare them in his nets. The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at
+his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in
+their bodies, were captured.</p>
+
+<p>Those who are caught are not always the most guilty.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The North Wind and the Sun.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image80.png" width="300" height="390" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The North Wind and the Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and
+agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a
+wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind first tried his power, and
+blew with all his might; but the keener became his blasts, the closer
+the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all
+hope of victory, he called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun
+suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his
+genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last,
+fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a stream that lay in
+his path.</p>
+
+<p>Persuasion is better than Force.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image81.png" width="260" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Laborer and the Snake.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image82.png" width="430" height="520" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted
+a severe bite on the Cottager's infant son, of which he died, to the
+great grief of his parents. The father resolved to kill the Snake, and
+the next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, took up his axe;
+but, making too much haste to hit him as he wriggled away, missed his
+head, and cut off only the end of his tail. After some time, the
+Cottager, afraid lest the Snake should bite him also, endeavored to make
+peace, and placed some bread and salt in his hole. The Snake said:
+"There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I
+shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be
+thinking of the death of your son."</p>
+
+<p>It is hard to forget injuries in the presence of him who caused the
+injury.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bull and the Calf.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Bull was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a
+narrow passage which led to his stall. A young Calf came up and offered
+to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
+"Save yourself the trouble," said the Bull; "I knew that way long before
+you were born."</p>
+
+<p>Do not presume to teach your elders.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Goat and the Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass. The Goat, envying the Ass on account
+of his greater abundance of food, said: "How shamefully you are treated;
+at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy
+burdens;" and he further advised him that he should pretend to be
+epileptic, and fall into a deep ditch and so obtain rest. The Ass gave
+credence to his words, and, falling into a ditch, was very much bruised.
+His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice. He bade him pour upon
+the wounds the blood of a Goat. They at once killed the Goat, and so
+healed the Ass.</p>
+
+<p>In injuring others we are apt to receive a greater injury.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boasting Traveler.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning
+to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic things he had done
+in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said
+that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man
+of his day could leap anywhere near him&mdash;and as to that there were in
+Rhodes many persons who saw him do it, and whom he could call as
+witnesses. One of the bystanders, interrupting him, said: "Now, my good
+man, if this be all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to
+be Rhodes and now for your leap."</p>
+
+<p>Cure a boaster by putting his words to the test.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image83.png" width="440" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger,
+approached. He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the
+sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion)
+crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away. The Ass, observing his
+trepidation at the mere crowing of a cock, summoned courage to attack
+him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run no long
+distance when the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to
+pieces.</p>
+
+<p>False confidence often leads into danger.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Stag and the Fawn.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Stag, grown old and mischievous, was, according to custom, stamping
+with his foot, making offers with his head, and bellowing so terribly
+that the whole herd quaked for fear of him; when one of the little
+Fawns, coming up, addressed him thus: "Pray, what is the reason that
+you, who are so formidable at all other times, if you do but hear the
+cry of the hounds, are ready to fly out of your skin for fear?" "What
+you observe is true," replied the Stag, "though I know not how to
+account for it. I am indeed vigorous and able, and often resolve that
+nothing shall ever dismay my courage; but, alas! I no sooner hear the
+voice of a hound but my spirits fail me, and I cannot help making off as
+fast as my legs can carry me."</p>
+
+<p>The greatest braggarts are the greatest cowards.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Partridge and the Fowler.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image84.png" width="410" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fowler caught a Partridge, and was about to kill him. The Partridge
+earnestly besought him to spare his life, saying: "Pray, master, permit
+me to live, and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for
+your mercy to me." The Fowler replied: "I shall now with the less
+scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost
+of betraying your friends and relations;" and without more ado he
+twisted his neck and put him in his bag with his other game.</p>
+
+<p>Those who would sacrifice their friends to save themselves from harm are
+not entitled to mercy.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Farmer and the Stork.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a
+quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped
+a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly
+besought the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray, save me, Master," he said,
+"and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity.
+Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and
+see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too at my
+feathers, they are not the least like to those of a Crane." The Farmer
+laughed aloud, and said: "It may be all as you say; I only know this, I
+have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their
+company."</p>
+
+<p>Birds of a feather flock together.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and his Driver.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image85.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and
+bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. When he was in the act of
+throwing himself over, his owner, seizing him by the tail, endeavored to
+pull him back. The Ass persisting in his effort, the man let him go,
+and said: "Conquer; but conquer to your cost."</p>
+
+<p>The perverse generally come to harm.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hare and the Hound</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image86.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up
+the chase. A Goat-herd, seeing him stop, mocked him, saying: "The little
+one is the best runner of the two." The hound replied; "You do not see
+the difference between us; I was only running for a dinner, but he for
+his life."</p>
+
+<p>Incentive spurs effort.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Kites and the Swans.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Kites of old time had, equally with the Swans, the privilege of
+song. But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted
+with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh,
+they forgot how to sing.</p>
+
+<p>The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present
+blessings.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog in the Manger.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image87.png" width="450" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the
+oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. "What a
+selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he cannot eat the hay
+himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can."</p>
+
+<p>We should not deprive others of blessings because we cannot enjoy them
+ourselves.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Crow and the Serpent.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Crow, in great want of food, saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and
+flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the
+Crow with a mortal wound. The Crow in the agony of death exclaimed: "O
+unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall
+the source of my certain destruction."</p>
+
+<p>What seem to be blessings are not always so.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cat and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image88.png" width="460" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>As the Cat and the Fox were talking politics together, Reynard said:
+"Let things turn out ever so bad, he did not care, for he had a thousand
+tricks for them yet, before they should hurt him." "But pray," says he,
+"Mrs. Puss, suppose there should be an invasion, what course do you
+design to take?" "Nay," says the Cat, "I have but one shift for it, and
+if that won't do, I am undone." "I am sorry for you," replies Reynard,
+"with all my heart, and would gladly help you, but indeed, neighbor, as
+times go, it is not good to trust; we must even be every one for
+himself, as the saying is." These words were scarcely out of his mouth,
+when they were alarmed with a pack of hounds, that came upon them in
+full cry. The Cat, by the help of her single shift, ran up a tree, and
+sat securely among the top branches; from whence she beheld Reynard,
+who had not been able to get out of sight, overtaken with his thousand
+tricks, and torn in as many pieces by the dogs which had surrounded him.</p>
+
+<p>A little common sense is often of more value than much cunning.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle and the Arrow.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image89.png" width="420" height="310" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Eagle sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare, whom he
+sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw him from a place of
+concealment, took an accurate aim, and wounded him mortally. The Eagle
+gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart, and saw in that
+single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself. "It is a
+double grief to me," he exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow
+feathered from my own wings."</p>
+
+<p>The misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct are the hardest to
+bear.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog Invited to Supper.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image90.png" width="460" height="530" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Gentleman, having prepared a great feast, invited a Friend to supper;
+and the Gentleman's Dog, meeting the Friend's Dog, "Come," said he, "my
+good fellow, and sup with us to-night." The Dog was delighted with the
+invitation, and as he stood by and saw the preparations for the feast,
+said to himself: "Capital fare indeed! this is, in truth, good luck. I
+shall revel in dainties, and I will take good care to lay in an ample
+stock to-night, for I may have nothing to eat to-morrow." As he said
+this to himself, he wagged his tail, and gave a sly look at his friend
+who had incited him. But his tail wagging to and fro caught the cook's
+eye, who, seeing a stranger, straightway seized him by the legs, and
+threw him out the window to the street below. When he reached the
+ground, he set off yelping down the street; upon which the neighbors'
+dogs ran up to him and asked him how he liked his supper. "In faith,"
+said he, with a sorry smile, "I hardly know, for we drank so deeply,
+that I can't even tell you which way I got out."</p>
+
+<p>Those who enter by the back stairs must not complain if they are thrown
+out by the window.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Frogs Asking for a King.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image91.png" width="460" height="320" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to
+Jupiter entreating for a King. He, perceiving their simplicity, cast
+down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash
+occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no
+sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they
+swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so
+to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it. After some time they
+began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a
+Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set
+over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them.
+When the Frogs discovered his easy good-nature, they yet a third time
+sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another
+King. Jupiter, displeased at their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed
+upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.</p>
+
+<p>When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Prophet.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Wizard, sitting in the market-place, told the fortunes of the
+passers-by. A person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that
+the doors of his house had been broken open, and that all his goods
+were being stolen. He sighed heavily, and hastened away as fast as he
+could run. A neighbor saw him running, and said: "Oh! you follow those?
+you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not
+foresee your own?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog and his Master's Dinner.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image92.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog had been taught to take his master's dinner to him every day. As
+he smelled the good things in the basket, he was sorely tempted to taste
+them, but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day to
+carry the basket faithfully. One day all the dogs in the neighborhood
+followed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, and tried to steal the
+dinner from the basket. At first the faithful dog tried to run away
+from them, but they pressed him so close that at last he stopped to
+argue with them. This was what the thieves desired, and they soon
+ridiculed him to that extent that he said: "Very well, I will divide
+with you," and he seized the best piece of chicken in the basket, and
+left the rest for the others to enjoy.</p>
+
+<p>He who stops to parley with temptation, will be very likely to yield.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Buffoon and the Countryman.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image93.png" width="450" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A rich nobleman once opened the theater to the public without charge,
+and gave notice that he would handsomely reward any one who would
+produce a new amusement. A Buffoon, well known for his jokes, said that
+he had a kind of entertainment that had never been produced in a
+theater. This report, being spread about, created a great stir in the
+place, and the theater was crowded to see the new entertainment. The
+Buffoon appeared, and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so
+admirably with his voice, that the audience declared that he had a
+porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out. When
+that was done, and yet nothing was found, they cheered the actor, with
+the loudest applause. A countryman in the crowd proclaimed that he would
+do the same thing on the next day. On the morrow a still larger crowd
+assembled in the theater. Both of the performers appeared on the stage.
+The Buffoon grunted and squeaked, and obtained, as on the preceding
+day, the applause and cheers of the spectators. Next the Countryman
+commenced, and pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his
+clothes (which in truth he did), contrived to lay hold of and to pull
+his ear, when he began to squeak. The crowd, however, cried out that the
+Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation. On this the Rustic
+produced the pig, and showed them the greatness of their mistake.</p>
+
+<p>Critics are not always to be depended upon.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boar and the Ass.</h2>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image94.png" width="460" height="250" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind
+to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant." The Boar,
+somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to him, and told him he
+was surprised to hear him utter so impudent an untruth, and was just
+going to show his resentment by giving him a rip in the flank; but
+wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying: "Go, you
+sorry beast! I do not care to foul my tusks with the blood of so base a
+creature."</p>
+
+<p>Dignity cannot afford to quarrel with its inferiors.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Goat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image95.png" width="460" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox, having fallen into a well, could find no means of escape. A Goat,
+overcome with thirst, came to the well, and, seeing the Fox, inquired if
+the water was good. The Fox, concealing his sad plight under a merry
+guise, indulged in lavish praise of the water, saying it was beyond
+measure excellent, and encouraged him to descend. The Goat, mindful only
+of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, when, just as he quenched his
+thirst, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in, and
+suggested a scheme for their common escape. "If," said he, "you will
+place your fore-feet upon the wall, and bend your head, I will run up
+your back and escape, and will help you out." On the Goat readily
+assenting to this proposal, the Fox leaped upon his back, and steadying
+himself with the goat's horns reached in safety the mouth of the well,
+and immediately made off as fast as he could. The Goat upbraided him
+with the breach of his bargain, when he turned round and cried out:
+"You foolish fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have
+hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had
+inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which
+you had determined upon no means of escape."</p>
+
+<p>Look before you leap.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Oxen and the Butchers.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image96.png" width="470" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Oxen, once on a time, sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced
+a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to
+carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. One
+of them, an exceedingly old one (for many a field had he ploughed), thus
+spoke: "These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with
+skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we
+shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a
+double death; for you may be assured that, though all the Butchers
+should perish, yet will men never want beef."</p>
+
+<p>Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and his Rider.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image97.png" width="460" height="260" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Horse-soldier took great pains with his charger. As long as the war
+lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies, and
+fed him carefully with hay and corn. When the war was over, he only
+allowed him chaff to eat, and made him carry heavy loads of wood, and
+subjected him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. War, however,
+being again proclaimed, the Soldier put on his charger its military
+trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse
+fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden,
+and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for
+you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."</p>
+
+<p>He who slights his friends when they are not needed must not expect them
+to serve him when he needs them.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog and the Hare.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Hound, having started a Hare on the hill-side, pursued her for some
+distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her
+life, and at another time fawning upon her, as if in play with another
+dog. The Hare said to him: "I wish you would act sincerely by me, and
+show yourself in your true colors. If you are a friend, why do you bite
+me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?"</p>
+
+<p>They are no friends whom you know not whether to trust or to distrust.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fawn and his Mother.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image98.png" width="460" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A young Fawn once said to his mother: "You are larger than a dog, and
+swifter, and more used to running; why, then, O Mother! are you always
+in such a terrible fright of the hounds?" She smiled, and said: "I know
+full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you
+mention, but yet when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to
+faint."</p>
+
+<p>No arguments will give courage to the coward.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lark and her Young Ones.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image99.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Lark had made her nest in the young green wheat. The brood had almost
+grown, when the owner of the field, overlooking his crop, said: "I must
+send to all my neighbors to help me with my harvest." One of the young
+Larks heard him, and asked his mother to what place they should move for
+safety. "There is no occasion to move yet, my son," she replied. The
+owner of the field came a few days later, and said: "I will come myself
+to-morrow, and will get in the harvest." Then the Lark said to her
+brood: "It is time now to be off&mdash;he no longer trusts to his friends,
+but will reap the field himself."</p>
+
+<p>Self-help is the best help.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bowman and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image100.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A very skillful Bowman went to the mountains in search of game. All the
+beasts of the forest fled at his approach. The Lion alone challenged him
+to combat. The Bowman immediately let fly an arrow; and said to the
+Lion: "I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I
+myself shall be when I assail thee." The Lion, thus wounded, rushed,
+away in great fear, and on a Fox exhorting him to be of good courage,
+and not to run away at the first attack, he replied: "You counsel me in
+vain, for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the
+attack of the man himself?"</p>
+
+<p>A man who can strike from a distance is no pleasant neighbor.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boy and the Filberts.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many
+as he could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to pull out his hand,
+he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher, which was
+much smaller than his closed hand. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and
+yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, and bitterly
+lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him: "Be satisfied with
+half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."</p>
+
+<p>Do not attempt too much at once.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Woman and her Hen.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image101.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Woman possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often
+thought with herself how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
+one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a
+double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek,
+and never once laid another egg.</p>
+
+<p>Covetousness overreacheth itself.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lamb and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image102.png" width="370" height="470" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain temple. The
+Wolf called out to him and said: "The priest will slay you in
+sacrifice, if he should catch you;" on which the Lamb replied: "It would
+be better for me to be sacrificed in the temple, than to be eaten by
+you."</p>
+
+<p>It is safer to be among friends than enemies.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bear and the Gardener.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image103.png" width="455" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Gardener, who lived alone, became discontented, and set out, one day,
+to seek a friend who would be a suitable companion. He had not gone far
+when he met a Bear, whom he invited to come and live with him. The Bear
+was a very silly one, who was also discontented with living alone, so he
+went home with the Gardener very willingly. The Gardener provided all
+the food, and the only service he required of the Bear was to keep the
+flies off his face while he slept in the shade. One day, a fly insisted
+upon lighting on the Gardener's face, although he was brushed off again
+and again. The silly Bear finally became so enraged that he threw a
+heavy stone upon it. He killed the fly, but, alas! he also killed his
+friend.</p>
+
+<p>Better have no friend at all than a foolish one.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Heifer and the Ox.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plough, and tormented him
+with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
+Shortly afterward, at the harvest home, the owner released the Ox from
+his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords, and led her away to the altar
+to be slain in honor of the festival. The Ox saw what was being done,
+and said to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness,
+because you were presently to be sacrificed."</p>
+
+<p>The lives of the idle can best be spared.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image104.png"><img src="images/image104a.png" width="470" height="250" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image104.png"><img src="images/image104b.png" width="232" height="247" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image104.png"><img src="images/image104c.png" width="470" height="233" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to live
+near each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Fox
+crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,
+when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provision
+for her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,
+and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering what
+had happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for her
+inability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon
+the Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were
+sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carried
+with it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned the
+spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were
+roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
+The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle.</p>
+
+<p>The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hawk and the Nightingale.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Nightingale, sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by a Hawk, who made a
+swoop down, and seized him. The Nightingale earnestly besought the Hawk
+to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger
+of a Hawk, who ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk said: "I
+should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready to my
+hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within
+sight."</p>
+
+<p>A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hen and the Swallow.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Hen finding the eggs of a viper, and carefully keeping them warm,
+nourished them into life. A Swallow observing what she had done, said:
+"You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when they
+shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all of us, beginning
+with yourself?"</p>
+
+<p>If we nourish evil, it will sooner or later turn upon us.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Herdsman and the Lost Bull.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image105.png"><img src="images/image105a.png" width="103" height="147" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image105.png"><img src="images/image105b.png" width="440" height="513" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A Herdsman, tending kine in a forest, lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
+After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only
+discover the thief who had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb in
+sacrifice to the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as
+he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the
+Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to
+heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian
+Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but
+now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown
+Bull to the Calf I have lost, and give them both to the guardians of the
+forest, if I may only secure my own escape from this terrible Lion in
+safety."</p>
+
+<p>That which we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more anxious to
+escape from, when we have succeeded in finding it.</p>
+
+<div class="center" style="clear: both;">
+<img src="images/image106.png" width="470" height="500" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Shepherd's Boy and Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out
+the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when
+his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The
+Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really
+alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the
+Wolf is killing the sheep;" but no one paid any heed to his cries.</p>
+
+<p>There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image107.png"><img src="images/image107a.png" width="221" height="268" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image107.png"><img src="images/image107b.png" width="460" height="472" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>The Pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk
+to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into
+the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of
+them in a single day, than the Kite could possibly pounce upon in a
+whole year.</p>
+
+<p>Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Farmer and the Cranes.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plough-lands newly sown
+with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling,
+chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found
+that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice
+of it, and would not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling
+with stones, and killed a great number. They at once forsook his
+plough-lands, and cried to each other: "It is time for us to be off, for
+this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
+earnest what he can do."</p>
+
+<p>If words suffice not, blows must follow.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cat and the Mice.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image108.png" width="450" height="215" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain house was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this, made her
+way into it, and began to catch and eat them one by one. The Mice, being
+continually devoured, kept themselves close in their holes. The Cat, no
+longer able to get at them, perceived that she must tempt them forth by
+some device. For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and, suspending
+herself from it, pretended to be dead. When the Mice came near she
+pounced among them and killed a great number. Pleased with the success
+of the trick, she tried another. She whitened herself with flour, and
+lay still on the heap of bags, as though she was one of them. The young
+Mice crept dangerously near her, but an old one peeping stealthily out
+said: "Ah, my good madam, though you should turn into a real flour-bag,
+I will not come too near you."</p>
+
+<p>Avoid even appearances of danger.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Father and his Sons.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among
+themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,
+he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done
+so, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them in succession,
+and ordered them to break it in pieces. They each tried with all their
+strength, and were not able to do it. He next unclosed the faggot, and
+took the sticks, separately, one by one, and again put them into their
+hands, on which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these
+words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other,
+you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all attempts of your enemies;
+but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily
+as these sticks."</p>
+
+<p>Disunited families are easily injured by others.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Owl and the Grasshopper.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Owl who was sitting in a hollow tree, dozing away a summer's
+afternoon, was very much disturbed by a rogue of a Grasshopper singing
+in the grass beneath. So far from keeping quiet, or moving away at the
+request of the Owl, the Grasshopper sang all the more, and called her an
+old blinker, that only came out at night when all honest people had gone
+to bed. The Owl waited in silence for a time, and then artfully
+addressed the Grasshopper as follows: "Well, my dear, if one cannot be
+allowed to sleep, it is something to be kept awake by such a pleasant
+voice. And now I think of it, I have a bottle of delicious nectar. If
+you will come up, you shall have a drop." The silly Grasshopper, came
+hopping up to the Owl, who at once caught and killed him, and finished
+her nap in comfort.</p>
+
+<p>Flattery is not a proof of admiration.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Grapes.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image109.png"><img src="images/image109a.png" width="460" height="152" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image109.png"><img src="images/image109b.png" width="189" height="293" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figright">
+<a href="images/image109.png"><img src="images/image109c.png" width="460" height="305" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A famished Fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a
+trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but
+wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she
+turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying: "The
+Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."</p>
+
+<p>Revile not things beyond your reach.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass carrying the Image.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image110.png" width="460" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden
+Image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along
+made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they
+bowed their heads in token of respect for him, bristled up with pride
+and gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver,
+seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and
+said: "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men
+pay worship to an Ass."</p>
+
+<p>They are not wise who take to themselves the credit due to others.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and the Lap-Dog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image111.png" width="470" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty. The Ass was
+left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any
+other Ass would. The Lap-dog was a great favorite with his master, and
+he frisked and jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see. The Ass had
+much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill, and in carrying wood from
+the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard
+fate, and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lap-dog,
+till at last one day he broke his halter, and galloped into his master's
+house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as
+well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen
+the Lap-dog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon
+it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his
+back. The servants hearing the strange hubbub, and perceiving the danger
+of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his
+stable, with kicks, and clubs, and cuffs. The Ass, beaten nearly to
+death, thus lamented: "I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not
+have been contented to labor with my companions, and not try to live by
+idleness?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Tortoise and the Eagle.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image112.png"><img src="images/image112a.png" width="402" height="149" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image112.png"><img src="images/image112b.png" width="211" height="273" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image112.png"><img src="images/image112c.png" width="480" height="328" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of
+her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering
+near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give
+him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air. "I will give
+you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to
+fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons, he carried
+her almost to the clouds,&mdash;when suddenly letting her go, she fell on a
+lofty mountain, and dashed her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed
+in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I
+to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the
+earth?"</p>
+
+<p>If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Porcupine and the Snakes.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Porcupine, wanting to shelter himself, desired a nest of Snakes to
+give him admittance into their cave. They were prevailed upon, and let
+him in accordingly; but were so annoyed with his sharp prickly quills
+that they soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the
+Porcupine to withdraw, and leave them their hole to themselves. "No,"
+says he, "let them quit the place that don't like it; for my part, I am
+well enough satisfied as I am."</p>
+
+<p>Hospitality is a virtue, but should be wisely exercised; we may by
+thoughtlessness entertain foes instead of friends.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox who had Lost his Tail.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image113.png" width="450" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox, caught in a trap, escaped with the loss of his "brush."
+Henceforth, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to
+which he was exposed, he schemed to bring all the other Foxes into a
+like condition with himself. He publicly advised them to cut off their
+tails, saying "that they would not only look much better without them,
+but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush." One of them
+said: "If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not
+thus counsel us."</p>
+
+<p>Advice prompted by selfishness should not be heeded.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image114.png" width="450" height="270" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Old Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Lion, worn out with years, lay on the ground at the point of death. A
+Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long
+remembered injury. Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him
+as if he were an enemy. When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
+assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image115.png" width="430" height="310" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and
+immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up, inquired the
+cause of his lameness. The Ass said that he had a thorn in his foot, and
+requested the Wolf to pull it out. The Wolf consenting, the Ass with his
+heels kicked his teeth into his mouth, and galloped away. The Wolf
+said: "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing,
+when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?"</p>
+
+<p>Every one to his trade.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and the Groom.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image116.png" width="420" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his
+Horse, but at the same time stole his oats, and sold them for his own
+profit. "Alas!" said the Horse, "if you really wish me to be in good
+condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more."</p>
+
+<p>If you wish to do a service, do it right.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and his Shadow.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image117.png" width="455" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being
+intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the traveler stopped
+to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
+As this afforded only protection for one, and as the traveler and the
+owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them
+as to which of them had the right to it. The owner maintained that he
+had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The traveler asserted that he
+had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel
+proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought the Ass galloped
+off.</p>
+
+<p>In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and the Loaded Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image118.png" width="440" height="320" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling
+the road together. The Ass, ready to faint under his heavy load,
+entreated the Horse to assist him, and lighten his burden, by taking
+some of it upon his back. The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do
+it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway,
+and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden, and laid it
+upon the Horse, together with the skin of the dead Ass.</p>
+
+<p>Laziness often prepares a burden for its own back.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image119.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mules and the Robbers.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Two Mules laden with packs were trudging along. One carried panniers
+filled with money, the other sacks of grain. The Mule carrying the
+treasure walked with head erect, and tossed up and down the bells
+fastened to his neck. His companion followed with quiet and easy step.
+All on a sudden Robbers rushed from their hiding-places upon them, and
+in the scuffle with their owners wounded the Mule carrying the treasure,
+which they greedily seized upon, while they took no notice of the grain.
+The Mule which had been wounded bewailed his misfortunes. The other
+replied: "I am glad that I was thought so little of, for I have lost
+nothing, nor am I hurt with any wound."</p>
+
+<p>The conspicuous run the greatest risk.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Three Bulls.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image120.png" width="460" height="330" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Three Bulls for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in ambush in
+the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them whilst
+they kept together. Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in
+separating them, he attacked them without fear, as they fed alone, and
+feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.</p>
+
+<p>In union is strength.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog and the Shadow.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image121.png" width="460" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his
+mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for another Dog,
+with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his
+own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from
+him. He thus lost both&mdash;that which he grasped at in the water, because
+it was a shadow and his own, because the stream swept it away.</p>
+
+<p>It is not wise to be too greedy.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image122.png" width="460" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ants and the Grasshopper.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in
+the summer time. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and
+earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him: "Why did
+you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied: "I had not
+leisure; I passed the days in singing." They then said: "If you were
+foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed
+in the winter."</p>
+
+<p>Idleness brings want.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Thirsty Pigeon.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted
+on a sign-board. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew toward
+it with a loud whirr, and unwittingly dashed against the sign-board and
+jarred herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell
+to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.</p>
+
+<p>Zeal should not outrun discretion.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Flies and the Honey.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Jar of Honey having been upset in a housekeeper's room, a number of
+flies were attracted by its sweetness, and placing their feet in it, ate
+it greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that
+they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were
+suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish
+creatures that we are! For the sake of a little pleasure we have
+destroyed ourselves."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Great and the Little Fishes.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image123.png" width="450" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fisherman was drawing up a net which he had cast into the sea, full of
+all sorts of fish. The Little Fish escaped through the meshes of the
+net, and got back into the deep, but the Great Fish were all caught and
+hauled into the ship.</p>
+
+<p>Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolves and the Sheep.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image124.png"><img src="images/image124a.png" width="470" height="237" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image124.png"><img src="images/image124b.png" width="196" height="358" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image124.png"><img src="images/image124c.png" width="470" height="95" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>"Why should there always be this implacable warfare between us?" said
+the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer
+for. They always bark whenever we approach you, and attack us before we
+have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels,
+there might soon be treaties of peace between us." The sheep, poor
+silly creatures! were easily beguiled, and dismissed the Dogs. The
+Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their pleasure.</p>
+
+<p>Change not friends for foes.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Stork.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image125.png" width="440" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and provided nothing but a soup, in
+a wide, shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease; but the Stork, who
+could but just dip in the point of his bill, was not a bit better. A few
+days after, he returned the compliment, and invited the Fox; but
+suffered nothing to be brought to the table but some minced meat in a
+glass jar, the neck of which was so deep and so narrow, that, though the
+Stork with his long bill could eat very well, all that the Fox could do
+was to lick the brims. Reynard was heartily vexed, but owned that he had
+been used as he deserved.</p>
+
+<p>Those who practice cunning must expect to suffer by it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bat and the Weasels.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Bat, falling upon the ground, was caught by a Weasel, of whom he
+earnestly besought his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
+nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a
+bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterward the Bat
+again fell on the ground, and was caught by another Weasel, whom he
+likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special
+hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a
+bat; and thus a second time escaped.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hare and the Tortoise.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image126.png" width="430" height="390" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise.
+The latter, laughing, said: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will
+beat you in a race." The Hare, deeming her assertion to be simply
+impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox
+should choose the course, and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the
+race they started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but
+went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
+The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race,
+and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and
+moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal,
+and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.</p>
+
+<p>Perseverance is surer than swiftness.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>Jupiter and the Monkey.</h2>
+
+<p>Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, and
+promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the
+handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest, and presented, with all a
+mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey
+as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on
+the presentation of her son. She resolutely said: "I know not whether
+Jupiter will allot the prize to my son; but this I do know, that he is
+the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all who are here."</p>
+
+<p>A mother's love blinds her to many imperfections.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion in Love.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image127.png" width="470" height="350" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,
+unwilling to grant and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this
+expedient. He expressed his willingness to accept him as the suitor of
+his daughter on one condition; that he should allow him to extract his
+teeth, and cut off his claws. The Lion cheerfully assented to the
+proposal: when, however, he next repeated his request, the woodman set
+upon him with his club.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Miser.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image128.png" width="460" height="400" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Miser had a lump of gold which he buried in the ground, coming to look
+at the spot every day. One day he found that it was stolen, and he began
+to tear his hair and loudly lament. A neighbor, seeing him, said: "Pray
+do not grieve so; bury a stone in the hole, and fancy it is the gold. It
+will serve you just as well, for when the gold was there you made no use
+of it."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf and the Goat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image129.png"><img src="images/image129a.png" width="210" height="380" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+<div class="figleft">
+<a href="images/image129.png"><img src="images/image129b.png" width="470" height="360" alt="" title="" /></a>
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he
+had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly
+besought her to come lower down, lest she should by some mishap get a
+fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that
+the herbage was most tender. She replied: "No, my friend, it is not of
+me you are thinking, but of yourself."</p>
+
+<p>Invitations prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bald Knight.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image130.png" width="460" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Bald Knight, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind
+blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his
+companions. He joined in the joke by saying: "What marvel that hairs
+which are not mine should fly from me, when my own have forsaken even
+the man with whom they were born."</p>
+
+<p>Those who cannot take care of their own, should not be entrusted with
+the care of another's property.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Wood-Cutter.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image131.png" width="450" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox, running before the hounds, came across a Wood-cutter felling an
+oak, and besought him to show him a safe hiding-place. The Wood-cutter
+advised him to take shelter in his own hut. The Fox crept in, and hid
+himself in a corner. The Huntsman came up, with his hounds, in a few
+minutes, and inquired of the Wood-cutter if he had seen the Fox. He
+declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed, all the time he was
+speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay hid. The Huntsman took no notice
+of the signs, but, believing his word, hastened forward in the chase. As
+soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice
+of the Wood-cutter; whereon he called to him, and reproached him,
+saying: "You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you
+leave me without a word of thanks." The Fox replied: "Indeed, I should
+have thanked you most fervently, if your deeds had been as good as your
+words."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Kid and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Kid, mounted on a high rock, bestowed all manner of abuse upon a Wolf
+on the ground below. The Wolf, looking up, replied: "Do not think, vain
+creature, that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as coming not
+from you, but from the place on which you stand."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image132.png" width="460" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Lion and a Bear seized upon a kid at the same moment, and fought
+fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated each
+other, and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with
+fatigue. A Fox who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw
+them both stretched on the ground, and the Kid lying untouched in the
+middle, ran in between them, and seizing the Kid, scampered off as fast
+as he could. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get
+up, said: "Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belabored
+ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox!"</p>
+
+<p>It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the
+profit.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Stag in the Ox-Stall.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image133.png" width="480" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Stag, hardly pressed by the hounds, and blind through fear to the
+danger he was running into, took shelter in a farm-yard, and hid himself
+in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappy
+creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction,
+and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?" The Stag replied: "Do
+you only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to
+find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape." At the approach
+of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the
+Stag. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express
+his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly afforded him help in the
+hour of need. One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well,
+but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the
+shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and, until he has come and
+gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself
+entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly
+fed, he went up to their racks, and cried out: "Why is there such a
+scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.
+Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away." While he thus
+examined everything, he spied the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the
+straw. Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be
+killed.</p>
+
+<p>What is safety for one is not always safety for another.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle and the Jackdaw.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image134.png" width="450" height="400" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Eagle, flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a
+lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. A Jackdaw who witnessed the
+capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy, and determined to emulate
+the strength and flight of the Eagle. He flew round with a great whirr
+of his wings, and settled upon a large sheep, with the intention of
+carrying it off, but his claws becoming entangled in its fleece, he was
+unable to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as
+much as he could. The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and
+caught him. He at once clipped his wings, and, taking him home at night,
+gave him to his children.</p>
+
+<p>We should not permit our ambition to lead us beyond the limits of our
+power.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Three Tradesmen.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to
+consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer
+present earnestly recommended bricks, as affording the best materials
+for an effectual resistance. A Carpenter, with equal energy, proposed
+timber, as providing a preferable method of defense. Upon which a
+Currier stood up, and said: "Sirs, I differ from you altogether; there
+is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing
+so good as leather."</p>
+
+<p>Every man for his trade.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dancing Monkeys.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics
+of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils; and when
+arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of
+the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great applause,
+till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket
+a handful of nuts, and threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys, at the
+sight of the nuts, forgot their dancing, and became (as indeed they
+were) Monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks and tearing
+their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing
+spectacle thus came to an end, amidst the laughter and ridicule of the
+audience.</p>
+
+<p>They who assume a character will betray themselves by their actions.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass and the Grasshopper.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted;
+and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of
+food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices. They replied:
+"The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a
+short time died of hunger.</p>
+
+<p>Where one may live, another may starve.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass in the Lion's Skin.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image135.png" width="420" height="320" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and
+amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in
+his wanderings. At last, meeting a Fox, he tried to frighten him also,
+but the Fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice, than he exclaimed:
+"I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your
+bray."</p>
+
+<p>No disguise will hide one's true character.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Boy Bathing.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image136.png" width="470" height="370" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Boy bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out
+to a traveler passing by for help. The traveler, instead of holding out
+a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his
+imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray help me now, and scold me
+afterwards."</p>
+
+<p>Counsel, without help, is useless.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cock and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught
+in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end. The Cock,
+at a distance, saw what happened, and, hardly yet daring to trust
+himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and
+peeped at him. Reynard addressed himself to him, with all the designing
+artifice imaginable. "Dear cousin," says he, "you see what an
+unfortunate accident has befallen me here, and all upon your account:
+for, as I was creeping through yonder hedge, in my way homeward, I heard
+you crow, and was resolved to ask you how you did before I went any
+farther; but I met with this disaster; and therefore now I must ask you
+for a knife to cut this string; or, at least, to conceal my misfortune
+till I have gnawed it asunder." The Cock, seeing how the case stood,
+made no reply, but posted away as fast as he could, and told the farmer,
+who came and killed the Fox.</p>
+
+<p>To aid the vicious is to become a partner in their guilt.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Viper and the File.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image137.png" width="470" height="360" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Viper, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the
+means of satisfying his hunger. He more particularly addressed himself
+to a File, and asked of him the favor of a meal. The File replied: "You
+must indeed be a simple-minded fellow if you expect to get anything from
+me, who am accustomed to take from every one, and never to give anything
+in return."</p>
+
+<p>The covetous are poor givers.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Oxen and the Axle-Trees.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen.
+The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen, turning
+round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hallo there! why do you make so much
+noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."</p>
+
+<p>Those who suffer most cry out the least.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bear and the Bee-Hives.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Bear that had found his way into a garden where Bees were kept began
+to turn over the hives and devour the honey. The Bees settled in swarms
+about his head, and stung his eyes and nose so much, that, maddened with
+pain, he tore the skin from his head with his own claws.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Thrush and the Swallow.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A young Thrush, who lived in an orchard once became acquainted with a
+Swallow. A friendship sprang up between them; and the Swallow, after
+skimming the orchard and the neighboring meadow, would every now and
+then come and visit the Thrush. The Thrush, hopping from branch to
+branch, would welcome him with his most cheerful note. "O mother!" said
+he to his parent one day, "never had creature such a friend as I have in
+this same Swallow."&mdash;"Nor ever any mother," replied the parent-bird,
+"such a silly son as I have in this same Thrush. Long before the
+approach of winter, your friend will have left you; and while you sit
+shivering on a leafless bough he will be sporting under sunny skies
+hundreds of miles away."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Sensible Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image138.png" width="710" height="450" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Old Fellow, in time of war, was allowing his Ass to feed in a green
+meadow, when he was alarmed by a sudden advance of the enemy. He tried
+every means in his power to urge the Ass to fly, but in vain. "The
+enemy are upon us!" said he. "And what will the enemy do?" asked the
+Ass. "Will they put two pairs of panniers on my back, instead of
+one?"&mdash;"No," answered the Man; "there is no fear of that."&mdash;"Why, then,"
+replied the Ass, "I'll not stir an inch. I am born to be a slave; and my
+greatest enemy is he who gives me most to carry."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image139.png" width="460" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.
+By-and-by they came to a cave, where wild goats abode. The Lion took up
+his station at the mouth of the cave, and the Ass, going within, kicked
+and brayed, and made a mighty fuss to frighten them out. When the Lion
+had caught them, the Ass came out and asked him if he had not made a
+noble fight. "Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would
+have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Ape.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image140.png" width="455" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Upon the decease of the Lion, the beasts of the forest assembled to
+choose another king. The Ape played so many grimaces, gambols, and antic
+tricks, that he was elected by a large majority; and the crown was
+placed upon his head. The Fox, envious of this distinction, seeing, soon
+after, a trap baited with a piece of meat, approached the new king, and
+said with mock humility: "May it please your majesty, I have found on
+your domain a treasure, to which, if you will deign to accompany me, I
+will conduct you." The Ape thereupon set off with the Fox, and, on
+arriving at the spot, laid his paw upon the meat. Snap! went the trap,
+and caught him by the fingers. Mad with the shame and the pain, he
+reproached the Fox for a false thief and a traitor. Reynard laughed
+heartily, and said, with a sneer: "You a king, and not understand a
+trap!"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Wolf, roaming by the mountain's side, saw his own shadow, as the sun
+was setting, become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to
+himself: "Why should I, being of such an immense size, and extending
+nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Ought I not to be
+acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?" While he was
+indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him, and killed him.
+He exclaimed with a too-late repentance, "Wretched me! this
+over-estimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."</p>
+
+<p>It is not wise, to hold too exalted an opinion of one's self.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Miller, his Son and their Ass.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image141.png" width="450" height="210" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A miller and his Son were driving their Ass to a fair. On the way, they
+met a troop of girls. "Look there!" cried one of them, "did you ever see
+such fools, to be trudging along on foot when they might be riding?"
+The old Man, hearing this, quietly bade his Son get on the Ass, and
+walked along merrily by his side.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image142.png" width="460" height="320" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate. "There!"
+said one of them, "it proves what I was saying. What respect is shown to
+old age in these days? Do you see that idle young rogue riding, while
+his old father has to walk?&mdash;Get down, you scapegrace! and let the old
+Man rest his weary limbs." Upon this the Father made his Son dismount,
+and got up himself. In this manner they had not proceeded far when they
+met a company of women and children. "Why, you lazy old fellow!" cried
+several tongues at once, "how can you ride upon the beast, while that
+poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you." The
+good-natured Miller immediately took up his Son behind him. They had now
+almost reached the town. "Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is
+that Ass your own?" "Yes," says the old Man. "Oh! One would not have
+thought so by the way you load him. Why, you two fellows are better
+able to carry the poor beast than he you!" "Anything to please you,"
+said the old Man. So, alighting with his Son, they tied the Ass's legs
+together, and by the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on their
+shoulders over a bridge. The people ran out in crowds to laugh at the
+sight; till the Ass, not liking the noise nor his situation, kicked
+asunder the cords and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Upon
+this the old Man made the best of his way home with his Son&mdash;convinced
+that, by endeavoring to please every-body, he had succeeded in pleasing
+nobody, and lost his Ass into the bargain.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image143.png" width="470" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Travelers and the Plane-Tree.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Two Travelers, worn out by the heat of the summer's sun, laid themselves
+down at noon under the wide-spreading branches of a Plane-tree. As they
+rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other: "What a
+singularly useless tree is the Plane. It bears no fruit, and is not of
+the least service to man." The Plane-tree interrupting him said: "You
+ungrateful fellows! Do you, while receiving benefits from me, and
+resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and
+unprofitable?"</p>
+
+<p>Some men despise their best blessings because they come without cost.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Tortoise and the Two Ducks.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image144.png" width="460" height="260" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Tortoise, becoming tired of her humble home, resolved to visit foreign
+lands, but she did not know which way to go. She repaired to two Ducks
+to show her the road, and they told her that the best way to travel was
+through the air. On her imploring their help, they made her grasp a
+stick with her mouth, and so they bore her aloft. As they flew along,
+the gaping people beneath shouted at sight of the spectacle. The vain
+Tortoise mistook their shouts for applause. "I am surely a queen," said
+she. But, alas! as she opened her mouth to speak she lost her hold of
+the stick, and, falling to the ground, was dashed to pieces.</p>
+
+<p>Those who are not able to roam should stay at home.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Countryman and the Snake.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image145.png" width="460" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Villager found a Snake under a hedge, almost dead with cold. He could
+not help having a compassion for the poor creature, so he brought it
+home, and laid it upon the hearth near the fire; but it had not lain
+there long, before (being revived with the heat) it began to erect
+itself, and fly at his wife and children. The Countryman, hearing an
+outcry, and perceiving what the matter was, caught up a mattock, and
+soon dispatched him, upbraiding him at the same time in these words: "Is
+this, vile wretch, the reward you make to him that saved your life?"</p>
+
+<p>Kindness to the ungrateful and the vicious is thrown away.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Madman who Sold Wisdom.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Madman once set himself up in the market place, and with loud cries
+announced that he would sell Wisdom. The people at once crowded about
+him, and some gave him gold for his wares, but they each got only a blow
+on the ear and a bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their
+companions. One of them, however, took it more seriously than the
+others, and asked a wise sage what it meant. "It means," said the sage,
+"that if one would not be hurt by a Madman, he must put a bunch of
+thread over his ears." So the Madman was really selling Wisdom.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Leopard and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image146.png" width="480" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Leopard, being no longer able, by reason of old age, to pursue his
+prey, feigned illness, and gave out that he would confer great favors
+upon any animal that would cure him. A cunning Fox heard of the
+proclamation, and lost no time in visiting the Leopard, first making
+himself look as much like a physician as he could. On seeing him, the
+Leopard declared that such a distinguished looking animal could not
+fail to cure him. This so flattered the Fox that he came near, and at
+once fell a victim to his vanity, being unable to flee because of the
+disguise, which fettered his limbs.</p>
+
+<p>Flattery is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an enemy.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hare afraid of his Ears.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image147.png" width="460" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Lion, being badly hurt by the horns of a goat, swore in a great rage
+that every animal with horns should be banished from his kingdom. A
+silly Hare, seeing the shadow of his ears, was in great fear lest they
+should be taken for horns, and scampered away.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Peacock and the Crane.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image148.png" width="490" height="330" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked a Crane that passed by,
+ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage, and saying: "I am robed like a
+king, in gold and purple, and all the colors of the rainbow; while you
+have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," replied the Crane, "but
+I soar to the heights of heaven, and lift up my voice to the stars,
+while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."</p>
+
+<p>Fine feathers don't make fine birds.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mouse and the Weasel.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image150.png" width="450" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A little starveling Mouse had made his way with some difficulty into a
+basket of corn, where, finding the entertainment so good, he stuffed and
+crammed himself to such an extent, that when he would have got out again
+he found the hole was too small to allow his puffed-up body to pass. As
+he sat at the hole groaning over his fate, a Weasel, who was brought to
+the spot by his cries, thus addressed him: "Stop there, my friend, and
+fast till you are thin; for you will never come out till you reduce
+yourself to the same condition as when you entered."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Tiger.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image149.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A skillful archer, coming into the woods, directed his arrows so
+successfully that he slew many wild beasts, and pursued several others.
+This put the whole savage kind into a fearful consternation, and made
+them fly to the most retired thickets for refuge. At last, the Tiger
+resumed courage, and, bidding them not be afraid, said that he alone
+would engage the enemy; telling them they might depend upon his valor
+and strength to revenge their wrongs. In the midst of these threats,
+while he was lashing himself with his tail, and tearing up the ground
+for anger, an arrow pierced his ribs, and hung by its barbed point in
+his side. He set up an hideous and loud roar, occasioned by the anguish
+which he felt, and endeavored to draw out the painful dart with his
+teeth; when the Fox, approaching him, inquired with an air of surprise
+who it was that could have strength and courage enough to wound so
+mighty and valorous a beast! "Ah!" says the Tiger, "I was mistaken in my
+reckoning: it was that invincible man yonder."</p>
+
+<p>There is always some vulnerable point in the strongest armor.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Turkeys.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image151.png" width="460" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox spied some turkeys roosting in a tree. He managed to attract
+their attention and then ran about the tree, pretended to climb, walked
+on his hind legs, and did all sorts of tricks. Filled with fear, the
+Turkeys watched every one of his movements until they became dizzy, and,
+one by one, fell from their safe perch.</p>
+
+<p>By too much attention to danger, we may fall victims to it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image152.png" width="460" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Eagle had made her nest at the top of a lofty oak. A Cat, having
+found a convenient hole, lived with her kittens in the middle of the
+trunk; and a Wild Sow with her young had taken shelter in a hollow at
+its foot. The Cat resolved to destroy by her arts this chance-made
+colony. She climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said: "Destruction is
+preparing for you, and for me too. The Wild Sow, whom you may see daily
+digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, that she may, on its
+fall, seize our families as food." Then she crept down to the cave of
+the Sow and said: "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you
+shall go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to
+pounce upon one of your little pigs." When night came, she went forth
+with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens; but,
+feigning to be afraid, she kept a look-out all through the day.
+Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the
+branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out
+from her cave; and thus they each, with their families, perished from
+hunger.</p>
+
+<p>Those who stir up enmities are not to be trusted.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Peacock and the Magpie.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image153.png" width="470" height="320" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Birds once met together to choose a king; and, among others, the
+Peacock was a candidate. Spreading his showy tail, and stalking up and
+down with affected grandeur, he caught the eyes of the silly multitude
+by his brilliant appearance, and was elected with acclamation. The
+Magpie then stepped forth into the midst of the assembly, and thus
+addressed the new king: "May it please your majesty, elect to permit a
+humble admirer to propose a question. As our king, we put our lives and
+fortunes in your hands. If, therefore, the Eagle, the Vulture, and the
+Kite, should make a descent upon us, what means would you take for our
+defense?" This pithy question opened the eyes of the Birds to the
+weakness of their choice and they canceled the election.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Two Goats.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image154.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two Goats started at the same moment, from opposite ends, to cross a
+rude bridge that was only wide enough for one to cross at a time.
+Meeting at the middle of the bridge, neither would give way to the
+other. They locked horns and fought for the right of way, until they
+both fell into the torrent below and were drowned.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dove and the Ant.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image155.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being
+carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of being
+drowned. A Dove, sitting on a tree overhanging the water, plucked a
+leaf, and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant, climbing on
+to it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher
+came close and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the
+Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung
+him in the foot. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made
+the Dove take wing.</p>
+
+<p>The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Eagle and the Beetle.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image156.png" width="470" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>The Eagle and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one
+another's nests. The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon
+and in eating the young ones of the Beetle. The Beetle got by stealth at
+the Eagle's eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the
+Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter. On the Eagle making his
+complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while
+Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and
+Jupiter, rising up unawares to drive him away from his head, threw down
+the eggs, and broke them.</p>
+
+<p>The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though
+they be the more powerful.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Mule.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image157.png" width="460" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Mule, frolicsome from want of work and from overmuch corn, galloped
+about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father
+surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and
+spirit." On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very
+weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake;
+my father, after all, could have been only an ass."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cat, the Weasel and the Rabbit.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image158.png" width="470" height="290" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>While a Rabbit was absent from his hole one day, a Weasel took
+possession of it. On the Rabbit's return, seeing the Weasel's nose
+sticking out, he said: "You must leave this hole immediately. There is
+only room for one, and it has always belonged to me and my fathers
+before me." "The more reason that you should give it up now," said the
+Weasel, "and leave its possession to me." As they could not settle the
+dispute, they agreed to leave the question of ownership to a wise old
+Cat, to whom they went without more ado. "I am deaf," said the Cat. "Put
+your noses close to my ears." No sooner had they done so, than she
+clapped a paw upon each of them, and killed them both.</p>
+
+<p>The strong are apt to settle all questions by the rule of might.</p>
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image159.png" width="470" height="300" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Rat and the Frog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image160.png" width="470" height="240" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Rat in an evil day made acquaintance with a Frog, and they set off on
+their travels together. The Frog, on pretense of great affection, and of
+keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the Rat's foot to his own
+hind-leg, and thus they proceeded for some distance by land. Presently
+they came to some water, and the Frog, bidding the Rat have good
+courage, began to swim across. They had scarcely, however, arrived
+midway, when the Frog took a sudden plunge to the bottom, dragging the
+unfortunate Rat after him. But the struggling and floundering of the Rat
+made so great a commotion in the water that it attracted the attention
+of a Kite, who, pouncing down and bearing off the Rat, carried away the
+Frog at the same time in his train.</p>
+
+<p>Inconsiderate and ill-matched alliances generally end in ruin; and the
+man who compasses the destruction of his neighbor, is often caught in
+his own snare.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Widow and the Sheep.</h2>
+
+
+<p>There was a certain Widow who had an only Sheep, and, wishing to make
+the most of his wool, she sheared him so closely that she cut his skin
+as well as his fleece. The Sheep, smarting under this treatment, cried
+out: "Why do you torture me thus? What will my blood add to the weight
+of the wool? If you want my flesh, Dame, send for the Butcher, who will
+put me out of my misery at once; but if you want my fleece, send for the
+Shearer, who will clip my wool without drawing my blood."</p>
+
+<p>Economy may be carried too far.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Man Bitten by a Dog.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Man who had been bitten by a Dog was going about asking who could cure
+him. One that met him said: "Sir, if you would be cured, take a bit of
+bread and dip it in the blood of the wound, and give it to the dog that
+bit you." The Man smiled, and said: "If I were to follow your advice, I
+should be bitten by all the dogs in the city."</p>
+
+<p>He who proclaims himself ready to buy up his enemies will never want a
+supply of them.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Horse and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image161.png" width="450" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Wolf saw a Horse grazing in a field. Putting on a grave air, he
+approached him and said: "Sir, you must be very ill; I have some skill
+as a physician, and if you will tell me where your ailment is, I shall
+be glad to be of service." Said the horse: "If you will examine my foot,
+you will find what ails me." But as the wily Wolf approached him, with a
+kick he sent him flying into the air.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Goatherd and the Goats.</h2>
+
+
+<p>It was a stormy day, and the snow was falling fast, when a Goatherd
+drove his Goats, all white with snow, into a desert cave for shelter.
+There he found that a herd of Wild Goats, more numerous and larger than
+his own, had already taken possession. So, thinking to secure them all,
+he left his own Goats to take care of themselves, and threw the branches
+which he had brought for them to the Wild Goats to browse on. But when
+the weather cleared up, he found his own Goats had perished from hunger,
+while the Wild Goats were off and away to the hills and woods. So the
+Goatherd returned a laughing-stock to his neighbors, having failed to
+gain the Wild Goats, and having lost his own.</p>
+
+<p>They who neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones, are rightly
+served if they lose both.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Goose with the Golden Eggs.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image162.png" width="460" height="380" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain man had the good fortune to possess a Goose that laid him a
+Golden Egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and
+thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the Goose, and
+cutting her open, found her&mdash;just what any other goose would be!</p>
+
+<p>Much wants more, and loses all.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image163.png" width="480" height="660" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>An Old Woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old
+wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former
+contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing
+it backwards and forwards, said: "O most delicious! How nice must the
+Wine itself have been when it leaves behind in the very vessel which
+contained it so sweet a perfume!"</p>
+
+<p>The memory of a good deed lives.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Ass Carrying Salt.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image164.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had
+cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some. Having
+loaded the beast as much as he could bear, he was driving him home,
+when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into
+the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his
+burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey
+onward, light in body and in spirit. The Huckster soon afterwards set
+off for the sea-shore for some more Salt, and loaded the Ass, if
+possible, yet more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed
+the stream into which he had formerly fallen, the Ass fell down on
+purpose, and by the dissolving of the Salt, was again released from his
+load. The Master, provoked at the loss, and thinking how he might cure
+him of this trick, on his next journey to the coast freighted the beast
+with a load of sponges. When they arrived at the same stream as before,
+the Ass was at his old tricks again, and rolled himself into the water;
+but he found to his cost, as he proceeded homewards, that instead of
+lightening his burden, he had more than doubled its weight.</p>
+
+<p>The same measures will not suit all circumstances.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Gnat and the Bull.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of a Bull, at length
+settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding
+him; "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say
+so, and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your head about
+that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all one to me whether you go or stay;
+and, to say the truth, I did not know you were there."</p>
+
+<p>The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion and the Gnat.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image165.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>As a Gnat was buzzing around a Lion, the Lion said to him: "How dare you
+approach so near? Be off, or I will kill you with the least stroke of
+my paw." The Gnat, knowing the advantage of his small size, and his
+alertness, immediately challenged the boaster to combat, and alighting
+first upon his nose and then upon his tail, made the Lion so furious
+that he injured himself grievously with his paws. As the Gnat flew away
+he boasted of his own prowess in thus defeating the King of Beasts
+without the slightest injury to himself. But, in his carelessness, he
+flew directly into a spider's web, and the spider instantly seized and
+killed him.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Hunting.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Lion, the Ass and the Fox formed a party to go out hunting. They
+took a large booty, and when the sport was ended, bethought themselves
+of having a hearty meal. The Lion bade the Ass allot the spoil. So,
+dividing it into three equal parts, the Ass begged his friends to make
+their choice; at which the Lion, in great indignation, fell upon the Ass
+and tore him to pieces. He then bade the Fox make a division; who,
+gathering the whole into one great heap, reserved but the smallest mite
+for himself. "Ah! friend," says the Lion, "who taught you to make so
+equitable a division?" "I wanted no other lesson," replied the Fox,
+"than the Ass's fate."</p>
+
+<p>Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dog Whose Ears were Cropped.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image166.png" width="450" height="210" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Dog complained of the cruelty of her master in cutting off her ears,
+and was so ashamed of her appearance that she resolved to stay in her
+kennel with her family. A friendly hunting dog said to her: "If you had
+been peaceful, and not always fighting, you would have saved your ears
+and your good looks. If you will fight, it is a kindness to crop your
+ears, that they may not give your enemy the advantage."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wind and the Sun.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image167.png" width="470" height="400" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A dispute once arose between the Wind and the Sun, which was the
+stronger of the two, and they agreed to settle the point upon this
+issue&mdash;that whichever of the two soonest made a traveler take off his
+cloak, should be accounted the more powerful. The Wind began, and blew
+with all his might and main a blast, cold and fierce as a Thracian
+storm; but the stronger he blew, the closer the traveler wrapped his
+cloak around him, and the tighter he grasped it with his hands. Then
+broke out the Sun. With his welcome beams he dispersed the vapor and the
+cold; the traveler felt the genial warmth, and as the Sun shone brighter
+and brighter, he sat down, quite overcome with the heat, and taking off
+his cloak, cast it on the ground.</p>
+
+<p>Thus the Sun was declared the conqueror; and it has ever been deemed
+that persuasion is better than force; and that the sunshine of a kind
+and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor man's heart than all the
+threatenings and force of blustering authority.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wild Boar and the Fox.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Wild Boar was whetting his tusks against a tree, when a Fox coming by,
+asked why he did so; "for," said he, "I see no reason for it; there is
+neither hunter nor hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can see,
+at hand." "True," replied the Boar; "but when that danger does arise, I
+shall have something else to do than to sharpen my weapons."</p>
+
+<p>It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds to draw it.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Hunter and the Wolf.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image168.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A greedy Hunter one day shot a fine Deer, and ere he could dress it, a
+pretty Fawn came that way, and an arrow brought it to the ground. A Boar
+now chanced to be passing, and the Hunter wounded it so that it lay upon
+the ground as if dead. Not satisfied with this game, he must needs
+pursue a Partridge that came fluttering near, and while he was doing so
+the wounded Boar regained enough strength to spring upon him and kill
+him. A Wolf came that way, and seeing the four dead bodies, said: "Here
+is food for a month; but I will save the best, and be content to-day
+with the bow-string." But when he seized the string it loosened the
+fixed arrow, which shot him through the heart.</p>
+
+<p>The greedy man and the miser cannot enjoy their gains.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Astronomer.</h2>
+
+
+<p>An Astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars. It
+happened one night that, with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies,
+he fell into a well. One who heard his cries ran up to him, and said:
+"While you are trying to pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook
+the common objects under your feet."</p>
+
+<p>We should never look so high as to miss seeing the things that are
+around us.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bulls and the Frogs.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image169.png" width="460" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two Bulls lived in the same herd, and each aspiring to be the leader and
+master, they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old Frog, who sat on
+the bank of a stream near by, began to groan and to quake with fear. A
+thoughtless young Frog said to the old one: "Why need you be afraid?
+What is it to you that the Bulls fight for supremacy?" "Do you not see,"
+said the old Frog, "that one must defeat the other, and that the
+defeated Bull, being driven from the field, will be forced to stay in
+the marshes, and will thus trample us to death?"</p>
+
+<p>The poor and weak are often made to suffer for the follies of the
+great.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Thief and His Mother.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image170.png" width="470" height="531" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Schoolboy stole a horn-book from one of his schoolfellows, and brought
+it home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, she rather encouraged
+him in the deed. In course of time the boy, now grown into a man, began
+to steal things of greater value, until, at last, being caught in the
+very act, he was brought to the Judge and sentenced to be hung. As he
+was being led to the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the ground
+with grief. A neighbor seeing her thus, said to her: "It is too late for
+you to moan and sob now. If you had been as much grieved when he
+committed his first theft, you would have corrected him in time, and
+thus have saved yourself this sorrowful day."</p>
+
+<p>Nip evil in the bud.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Man and His Two Wives.</h2>
+
+
+<p>In days when a man was allowed more wives than one, a middle-aged
+bachelor, who could be called neither young nor old, and whose hair was
+only just beginning to turn gray, must needs fall in love with two women
+at once, and marry them both. The one was young and blooming, and wished
+her husband to appear as youthful as herself; the other was somewhat
+more advanced in age, and was as anxious that her husband should appear
+a suitable match for her. So, while the young one seized every
+opportunity of pulling out the good man's gray hairs, the old one was
+as industrious in plucking out every black hair she could find, till he
+found that, between the one and the other, he had not a hair left.</p>
+
+<p>He that submits his principles to the influence and caprices of opposite
+parties will end in having no principles at all.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Heifer, the Goat, the Sheep and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image171.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Heifer, a Goat, a Sheep, and a Lion formed a partnership, and agreed
+to divide their earnings. The Goat having snared a stag, they sent for
+the Lion to divide it for them. The Lion said: "I will make four
+parts&mdash;the first shall be mine as judge; the second, because I am
+strongest; the third, because I am bravest; and the fourth&mdash;I will kill
+any one who dares touch it."</p>
+
+<p>He who will steal a part will steal the whole.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Camel and the Travelers.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image172.png" width="480" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>Two Travelers on a desert saw a Camel in the distance, and were greatly
+frightened at his huge appearance, thinking it to be some huge monster.
+While they hid behind some low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they
+discovered that it was only a harmless Camel which had excited their
+fears.</p>
+
+<p>Distance exaggerates dangers.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Swan and the Goose.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image173.png" width="470" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A certain rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. He fed the
+one for his table, and kept the other for the sake of its song. When the
+time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to take him at night,
+when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the
+other, and he caught the Swan instead of the Goose. The Swan, threatened
+with death, burst forth into song, and thus made himself known by his
+voice, and preserved his life by his melody.</p>
+
+<p>Sweet words may deliver us from peril, when harsh words would fail.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Dolphins and the Sprat.</h2>
+
+
+<p>The Dolphins and the Whales were at war with one another, and the Sprat
+stepped in and endeavored to separate them. But one of the Dolphins
+cried out: "We would rather perish in the contest, than be reconciled by
+you."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Shepherd and the Sea.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image174.png" width="460" height="220" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Shepherd moved down his flock to feed near the shore, and beholding
+the Sea lying in a smooth calm, he was seized with a strong desire to
+sail over it. So he sold all his sheep and bought a cargo of Dates, and
+loaded a vessel, and set sail. He had not gone far when a storm arose;
+his ship was wrecked, and his Dates and everything lost, and he himself
+with difficulty escaped to land. Not long after, when the Sea was again
+calm, and one of his friends came up to him and was admiring its repose,
+he said: "Have a care, my good fellow, of that smooth surface, it is
+only looking out for your Dates."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp.</h2>
+
+
+<p>Some Bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak. The Drones
+asserted that it was their doing, and belonged to them. The cause was
+brought into court before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the parties,
+he thus addressed them: "The plaintiffs and defendants are so much alike
+in shape and color as to render the ownership a doubtful matter. Let
+each party take a hive to itself, and build up a new comb, that from the
+shape of the cells and the taste of the honey, the lawful proprietors of
+the property in dispute may appear." The Bees readily assented to the
+Wasp's plan. The Drones declined it. Whereupon the Wasp gave judgment:
+"It is clear now who made the comb, and who cannot make it; the Court
+adjudges the honey to the Bees."</p>
+
+<p>Professions are best tested by deeds.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wolf, the Goat and the Kid.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image175.png" width="460" height="230" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>As an old Goat was going forth to pasture, she carefully latched her
+door, and bid her kid not to open it to any one who could not give this
+pass-word: "Beware of the Wolf and all his race." A Wolf happened to be
+passing, and overheard what the old Goat said. When she was gone, he
+went to the door, and, knocking, said: "Beware of the Wolf and all his
+race." But the Kid, peeping through a crack, said: "Show me a white paw
+and I will open the door." As the Wolf could not do this, he had to
+depart, no better than he came.</p>
+
+<p>Two sureties are better than one.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Hedgehog.</h2>
+
+
+<div class="center">
+<img src="images/image176.png" width="460" height="340" alt="" title="" />
+</div>
+
+<p>A Fox, while crossing over a river, was driven by the stream into a
+narrow gorge, and lay there for a long time unable to get out, covered
+with myriads of horse-flies that had fastened themselves upon him. A
+Hedgehog, who was wandering in that direction, saw him, and taking
+compassion on him, asked him if he should drive away the flies that were
+so tormenting him. But the Fox begged him to do nothing of the sort.
+"Why not?" asked the Hedgehog. "Because," replied the Fox, "these flies
+that are upon me now are already full, and draw but little blood, but
+should you remove them, a swarm of fresh and hungry ones will come, who
+will not leave a drop of blood in my body."</p>
+
+<p>When we throw off rulers or dependents, who have already made the most
+of us, we do but, for the most part, lay ourselves open to others, who
+will make us bleed yet more freely.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Brazier and His Dog.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Brazier had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master,
+and his constant companion. While he hammered away at his metals the Dog
+slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner, and began to eat,
+the Dog woke up, and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of
+his meal. His master one day, pretending to be angry, and shaking his
+stick at him, said: "You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to
+you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I
+begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do
+you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none
+but those who work are entitled to eat?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Wild Ass and the Lion.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture
+the beasts of the forest with the greater ease. The Lion agreed to
+assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the
+benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as
+their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey,
+and for this purpose divided it into three shares. "I will take the
+first share," he said, "because I am king; and the second share, as a
+partner with you in the chase; and the third share (believe me) will be
+a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and
+set off as fast as you can."</p>
+
+<p>Might makes right.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Father and His Two Daughters.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to
+a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the
+gardener, and inquired how she was, and how all things went with her.
+She said: "All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish,
+that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be
+well watered." Not long after he went to the daughter who had married
+the tile-maker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied:
+"I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may
+continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be
+dried." He said to her: "If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry
+weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fir Tree and the Bramble.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Fir Tree said boastingly to the Bramble: "You are useful for nothing
+at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble
+made answer: "You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes
+and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish
+that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree."</p>
+
+<p>Better poverty without care, than riches with.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Fox and the Monkey.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them
+all by his performance that they elected him their king. A Fox envying
+him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading
+the Monkey to the place where it was, said "that she had found a store,
+but had not used it, but had kept it for him as treasure trove of his
+kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it." The Monkey approached
+carelessly, and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of
+purposely leading him into the snare, she replied: "O Monkey, and are
+you, with such a mind as yours, going to be king over the Beasts?"</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Farmer and His Sons.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Farmer being on the point of death, wished to insure from his sons the
+same attention to his farm as he had himself given it. He called them to
+his bedside, and said: "My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of
+my vineyards." The sons, after his death, took their spades and
+mattocks, and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found
+no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and
+superabundant crop.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Cat and the Birds.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing, dressed
+himself up as a physician, and, taking with him his cane and the
+instruments becoming his profession, went to the aviary, knocked at the
+door, and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they
+were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They
+replied: "We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only
+be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are."</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Stag, the Wolf and the Sheep.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Stag asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the
+Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended,
+excused herself, saying: "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants,
+and to run off, and you, too, can quickly out-strip me in your rapid
+flight. How then shall I be able to find you when the day of payment
+comes?"</p>
+
+<p>Two blacks do not make one white.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Raven and the Swan.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A Raven saw a Swan, and desired to secure for himself a like beauty of
+plumage. Supposing that his splendid white color arose from his washing
+in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the
+neighborhood of which he picked up his living, and took up his abode in
+the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he
+could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.</p>
+
+<p>Change of habit cannot alter nature.</p>
+
+
+
+<hr style="width: 65%" />
+<h2>The Lioness.</h2>
+
+
+<p>A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field, as to which of
+the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number
+of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the
+Lioness, and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. "And you,"
+they said, "how many sons have you at a birth?" The Lioness laughed at
+them, and said: "Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a
+thorough-bred Lion."</p>
+
+<p>The value is in the worth, not in the number.</p>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+<pre>
+
+
+
+
+
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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of Aesop's Fables, by Aesop
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Aesop's Fables
+       A New Revised Version From Original Sources
+
+Author: Aesop
+
+Illustrator: Harrison Weir, John Tenniel and Ernest Griest
+
+Release Date: July 1, 2006 [EBook #18732]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AESOP'S FABLES ***
+
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+Produced by Marilynda Fraser-Cunliffe, Karina Aleksandrova
+and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
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+
+AESOP'S FABLES
+
+A NEW REVISED VERSION
+
+FROM ORIGINAL SOURCES
+
+[Illustration]
+
+WITH UPWARDS OF 200 ILLUSTRATIONS
+
+BY
+HARRISON WEIR,[A] JOHN TENNIEL, ERNEST GRISET
+AND OTHERS
+
+NEW YORK
+FRANK F. LOVELL & COMPANY
+142 AND 144 WORTH STREET
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+COPYRIGHT, 1884,
+BY R. WORTHINGTON.
+
+[Transcriber's note A: Original had "WIER".]
+
+
+
+
+LIFE OF AESOP.
+
+
+The Life and History of AEsop is involved, like that of Homer, the most
+famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity. Sardis, the capital of Lydia;
+Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and
+Cotiaeum, the chief city of a province of Phrygia, contend for the
+distinction of being the birthplace of AEsop. Although the honor thus
+claimed cannot be definitely assigned to any one of these places, yet
+there are a few incidents now generally accepted by scholars as
+established facts, relating to the birth, life, and death of AEsop. He
+is, by an almost universal consent, allowed to have been born about the
+year 620 B.C., and to have been by birth a slave. He was owned
+by two masters in succession, both inhabitants of Samos, Xanthus and
+Jadmon, the latter of whom gave him his liberty as a reward for his
+learning and wit. One of the privileges of a freedman in the ancient
+republics of Greece was the permission to take an active interest in
+public affairs; and AEsop, like the philosophers Phaedo, Menippus, and
+Epictetus, in later times, raised himself from the indignity of a
+servile condition to a position of high renown. In his desire alike to
+instruct and to be instructed, he travelled through many countries, and
+among others came to Sardis, the capital of the famous king of Lydia,
+the great patron in that day, of learning and of learned men. He met at
+the court of Croesus with Solon, Thales, and other sages, and is
+related so to have pleased his royal master, by the part he took in the
+conversations held with these philosophers, that he applied to him an
+expression which has since passed into a proverb, "mallon ho
+Phryx"--"The Phrygian has spoken better than all."
+
+On the invitation of Croesus he fixed his residence at Sardis, and was
+employed by that monarch in various difficult and delicate affairs of
+state. In his discharge of these commissions he visited the different
+petty republics of Greece. At one time he is found in Corinth, and at
+another in Athens, endeavoring, by the narration of some of his wise
+fables, to reconcile the inhabitants of those cities to the
+administration of their respective rulers, Pariander and Pisistratus.
+One of these ambassadorial missions, undertaken at the command of
+Croesus, was the occasion of his death. Having been sent to Delphi
+with a large sum of gold for distribution among the citizens, he was so
+provoked at their covetousness that he refused to divide the money, and
+sent it back to his master. The Delphians, enraged at this treatment,
+accused him of impiety, and, in spite of his sacred character as
+ambassador, executed him as a public criminal. This cruel death of AEsop
+was not unavenged. The citizens of Delphi were visited with a series of
+calamities, until they made a public reparation of their crime; and "The
+blood of AEsop" became a well-known adage, bearing witness to the truth
+that deeds of wrong would not pass unpunished. Neither did the great
+fabulist lack posthumous honors; for a statue was erected to his memory
+at Athens, the work of Lysippus, one of the most famous of Greek
+sculptors. Phaedrus thus immortalizes the event:--
+
+  AEsopo ingentem statuam posuere Attici,
+  Servumque collocarunt aeterna in basi:
+  Patere honoris scirent ut cuncti viam;
+  Nec generi tribui sed virtuti gloriam.
+
+These few facts are all that can be relied on with any degree of
+certainty, in reference to the birth, life, and death of AEsop. They were
+first brought to light, after a patient search and diligent perusal of
+ancient authors, by a Frenchman, M. Claude Gaspard Bachet de Mezeriac,
+who declined the honor of being tutor to Louis XIII. of France, from his
+desire to devote himself exclusively to literature. He published his
+life of AEsop, Anno Domini 1632. The later investigations of a host of
+English and German scholars have added very little to the facts given by
+M. Mezeriac. The substantial truth of his statements has been confirmed
+by later criticism and inquiry.
+
+It remains to state, that prior to this publication of M. Mezeriac, the
+life of AEsop was from the pen of Maximus Planudes, a monk of
+Constantinople, who was sent on an embassy to Venice by the Byzantine
+Emperor Andronicus the elder, and who wrote in the early part of the
+fourteenth century. His life was prefixed to all the early editions of
+these fables, and was republished as late as 1727 by Archdeacon Croxall
+as the introduction to his edition of AEsop. This life by Planudes
+contains, however, so small an amount of truth, and is so full of absurd
+pictures of the grotesque deformity of AEsop, of wondrous apocryphal
+stories, of lying legends, and gross anachronisms, that it is now
+universally condemned as false, puerile, and unauthentic. It is given up
+in the present day, by general consent, as unworthy of the slightest
+credit.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+AESOP'S FABLES.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Wolf Turned Shepherd.
+
+
+A wolf, finding that the sheep were so afraid of him that he could not
+get near them, disguised himself in the dress of a shepherd, and thus
+attired approached the flock. As he came near, he found the shepherd
+fast asleep. As the sheep did not run away, he resolved to imitate the
+voice of the shepherd. In trying to do so, he only howled, and awoke the
+shepherd. As he could not run away, he was soon killed.
+
+Those who attempt to act in disguise are apt to overdo it.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag at the Pool.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A stag saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the
+size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such weak
+feet. While he was thus contemplating himself, a Lion appeared at the
+pool. The Stag betook himself to flight, and kept himself with ease at a
+safe distance from the Lion, until he entered a wood and became
+entangled with his horns. The Lion quickly came up with him and caught
+him. When too late he thus reproached himself: "Woe is me! How have I
+deceived myself! These feet which would have saved me I despised, and I
+gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction."
+
+What is most truly valuable is often underrated.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Mask.
+
+
+A fox entered the house of an actor, and, rummaging through all his
+properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He
+placed his paws on it, and said: "What a beautiful head! yet it is of
+no value, as it entirely wants brains."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A fair face is of little use without sense.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Fox.
+
+
+A bear boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying "that of all
+animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had such
+respect for him, that he would not even touch his dead body." A Fox
+hearing these words said with a smile to the Bear: "Oh, that you would
+eat the dead and not the living!"
+
+We should not wait till a person is dead, to give him our respect.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lamb.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay
+violent hands on him, but to find some plea, which should justify to the
+Lamb himself his right to eat him. He then addressed him: "Sirrah, last
+year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful
+tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf: "You feed in
+my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted
+grass." Again said the Wolf: "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the
+Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food
+and drink to me." On which the Wolf seized him, and ate him up, saying:
+"Well! I won't remain supperless, even though you refute every one of my
+imputations."
+
+The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, and it is useless
+for the innocent to try by reasoning to get justice, when the oppressor
+intends to be unjust.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The One-Eyed Doe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Doe, blind of an eye, was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of
+the sea as she possibly could, to secure greater safety. She turned her
+eye towards the land, that she might perceive the approach of a hunter
+or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from which she
+entertained no anticipation of danger. Some boatmen, sailing by, saw
+her, and, taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her. Said she: "O
+wretched creature that I am! to take such precaution against the land,
+and, after all, to find this seashore, to which I had come for safety,
+so much more perilous."
+
+Danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog, Cock and Fox.
+
+
+A Dog and a Cock, traveling together, took shelter at night in a thick
+wood. The Cock perched himself on a high branch, while the Dog found a
+bed at the foot of the tree. When morning dawned, the Cock, as usual,
+crowed very loudly. A Fox, hearing the sound, and wishing to make a
+breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how
+earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so sweet a
+voice.
+
+"If you will admit me," said he, "I should very much like to spend the
+day with you."
+
+The Cock said: "Sir, do me the favor to go round and wake up my porter,
+that he may open the door, and let you in." On the Fox approaching the
+tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him and quickly tore him in pieces.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse, by an unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance with a
+Frog. The Frog one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse
+tightly to his own. Thus joined together, the Frog led his friend toward
+the pool in which he lived, until he reached the very brink, when
+suddenly jumping in, he dragged the Mouse in with him. The Frog enjoyed
+the water amazingly, and swam croaking about as if he had done a
+meritorious action. The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated with the
+water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot
+of the Frog. A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it, carried it up
+aloft. The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also
+carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
+
+Harm hatch, harm catch.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Oyster.
+
+
+A Dog, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster, and opening his mouth to its
+widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to
+be an egg. Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said:
+"I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything
+round must be an egg."
+
+Who acts in haste repents at leisure.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherds.
+
+
+A Wolf passing by, saw some shepherds in a hut eating for their dinner a
+haunch of mutton. Approaching them, he said: "What a clamor you would
+raise, if I were to do as you are doing!"
+
+Men are too apt to condemn in others the very things they practice
+themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Hares and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Hares, oppressed with a sense of their own exceeding timidity, and
+weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord
+determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles, by jumping
+from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. As they scampered off in
+a very numerous body to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the
+banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet, and rushed
+helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. On seeing the rapid
+disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his
+companions: "Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now
+see that other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+We are encouraged by seeing others that are worse off than ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Boar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst, a Lion
+and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink. They
+fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon
+engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a
+sudden to take breath for the fiercer renewal of the strife, they saw
+some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one which should
+fall first. They at once made up their quarrel, saying: "It is better
+for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures, as
+will certainly happen if we are disabled."
+
+Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of
+their defeat to benefit themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Mischievous Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog used to run up quietly to the heels of those he met, and to bite
+them without notice. His master sometimes suspended a bell about his
+neck, that he might give notice of his presence wherever he went, and
+sometimes he fastened a chain about his neck, to which was attached a
+heavy clog, so that he could not be so quick at biting people's heels.
+
+The Dog grew proud of his bell and clog, and went with them all over the
+market-place. An old hound said to him: "Why do you make such an
+exhibition of yourself? That bell and clog that you carry are not,
+believe me, orders of merit, but, on the contrary, marks of disgrace, a
+public notice to all men to avoid you as an ill-mannered dog."
+
+Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Quack Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Frog once made proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned
+physician, and able to heal all diseases. A Fox asked him: "How can you
+pretend to prescribe for others, and you are unable to heal your own
+lame gait and wrinkled skin?"
+
+Those who pretend that they can mend others should first mend
+themselves, and then they will be more readily believed.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Ass and the Fox, having entered into a partnership together, went
+out into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far, when they met a
+Lion. The Fox approached the Lion and promised to contrive for him the
+capture of the Ass, if he would pledge his word that his own life should
+be spared. On his assuring him that he would not injure him, the Fox led
+the Ass to a deep pit, and contrived that he should fall into it. The
+Lion, seeing that the Ass was secured, immediately clutched the Fox,
+and then attacked the Ass at his leisure.
+
+Traitors must expect treachery.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, being sick and maimed, called to a Sheep, who was passing, and
+asked him to fetch some water from the stream. "For," he said, "if you
+will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat."
+"Yes," said the Sheep, "if I should bring you the draught, you would
+doubtless make me provide the meat also."
+
+Hypocritical speeches are easily seen through.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Jewel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cock, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious
+stone; on which he said: "If thy owner had found thee, and not I, he
+would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I
+have found thee for no purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than
+all the jewels in the world."
+
+
+
+
+The Two Pots.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A river carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware,
+and the other of brass. As they floated along on the surface of the
+stream, the Earthen Pot said to the Brass Pot: "Pray keep at a distance,
+and do not come near me, for if you touch me ever so slightly, I shall
+be broken in pieces; and besides, I by no means wish to come near you."
+
+Equals make the best friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Lion.
+
+
+A Gnat came and said to a Lion: "I do not the least fear you, nor are
+you stronger than I am. For in what does your strength consist? You can
+scratch with your claws, and bite with your teeth--so can a woman in her
+quarrels. I repeat that I am altogether more powerful than you; and if
+you doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer." The Gnat, having
+sounded his horn, fastened itself upon the Lion, and stung him on the
+nostrils. The Lion, trying to crush him, tore himself with his claws,
+until he punished himself severely. The Gnat thus prevailed over the
+Lion, and buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But shortly
+afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb, and was eaten
+by a spider. He greatly lamented his fate, saying: "Woe is me, that I,
+who can wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish
+myself from this spider."
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and her Little Maidens.
+
+
+A widow woman, fond of cleaning, had two little maidens to wait on her.
+She was in the habit of waking them early in the morning, at cockcrow.
+The maidens, being aggrieved by such excessive labor, resolved to kill
+the cock who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this,
+they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles,
+for their mistress, no longer hearing the cock, was unable to tell the
+time, and so, woke them up to their work in the middle of the night.
+
+Unlawful acts to escape trials only increase our troubles.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox who had never yet seen a Lion, when he fell in with him by a
+certain chance for the first time in the forest, was so frightened that
+he was near dying with fear. On his meeting with him for the second
+time, he was still much alarmed, but not to the same extent as at first.
+On seeing him the third time, he so increased in boldness that he went
+up to him, and commenced a familiar conversation with him.
+
+Acquaintance softens prejudices.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Country Mouse invited a Town Mouse, an intimate friend, to pay him a
+visit, and partake of his country fare. As they were on the bare
+plough-lands, eating their wheat-stalks and roots pulled up from the
+hedge-row, the Town Mouse said to his friend: "You live here the life of
+the ants, while in my house is the horn of plenty. I am surrounded with
+every luxury, and if you will come with me, as I much wish you would,
+you shall have an ample share of my dainties." The Country Mouse was
+easily persuaded, and returned to town with his friend. On his arrival,
+the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs,
+honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from
+a basket. The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such
+good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, and lamented his
+own hard fate. Just as they were beginning to eat, some one opened the
+door, and they both ran off squeaking, as fast as they could, to a hole
+so narrow that two could only find room in it by squeezing. They had
+scarcely again begun their repast when some one else entered to take
+something out of a cupboard, on which the two Mice, more frightened than
+before, ran away and hid themselves. At last the Country Mouse, almost
+famished, thus addressed his friend: "Although you have prepared for me
+so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is
+surrounded by too many dangers to please me."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Better a little in safety, than an abundance surrounded by danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Dolphin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sailor, bound on a long voyage, took with him a Monkey to amuse him
+while on shipboard. As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent
+tempest arose, in which the ship was wrecked, and he, his Monkey and all
+the crew were obliged to swim for their lives. A Dolphin saw the Monkey
+contending with the waves, and supposing him to be a man (whom he is
+always said to befriend), came and placed himself under him, to convey
+him on his back in safety to the shore. When the Dolphin arrived with
+his burden in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded of the
+Monkey if he were an Athenian, who answered that he was, and that he was
+descended from one of the noblest families in that city.
+
+The Dolphin then inquired if he knew the Piraeus (the famous harbor of
+Athens). The Monkey, supposing that a man was meant, and being obliged
+to support his previous lie, answered that he knew him very well, and
+that he was an intimate friend, who would, no doubt, be very glad to see
+him. The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under
+the water, and drowned him.
+
+He who once begins to tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make
+them appear true, and, sooner or later, they will get him into trouble.
+
+
+
+
+The Game-cocks and the Partridge.
+
+
+A Man had two Game-cocks in his poultry yard. One day, by chance, he
+fell in with a tame Partridge for sale. He purchased it, and brought it
+home that it might be reared with his Game-cocks. On its being put into
+the poultry-yard, they struck at it, and followed it about, so that the
+Partridge was grievously troubled in mind, and supposed that he was
+thus badly treated because he was a stranger. Not long afterwards he saw
+the Cocks fighting together, and not separating before one had well
+beaten the other. He then said to himself: "I shall no longer distress
+myself at being struck at by these Game-cocks, when I see that they
+cannot even refrain from quarreling with each other."
+
+Strangers should avoid those who quarrel among themselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Nettle.
+
+
+A Boy was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his mother, saying:
+"Although it pains me so much, I did but touch it ever so gently." "That
+was just it," said his mother, "which caused it to sting you. The next
+time you touch a Nettle, grasp it boldly, and it will be soft as silk to
+your hand, and not in the least hurt you."
+
+Whatever you do, do with all your might.
+
+
+
+
+The Trumpeter taken Prisoner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Trumpeter, bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy.
+He cried out to his captors: "Pray spare me, and do not take my life
+without cause or without injury. I have not slain a single man of your
+troop. I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one brass trumpet."
+"That is the very reason for which you should be put to death," they
+said, "for while you do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up
+all the other soldiers to battle."
+
+He who incites strife is as guilty as they who strive.
+
+
+
+
+The Fatal Marriage.
+
+
+The Lion, touched with gratitude by the noble procedure of a Mouse, and
+resolving not to be outdone in generosity by any wild beast whatsoever,
+desired his little deliverer to name his own terms, for that he might
+depend upon his complying with any proposal he should make. The Mouse,
+fired with ambition at this gracious offer, did not so much consider
+what was proper for him to ask, as what was in the powers of his prince
+to grant; and so demanded his princely daughter, the young lioness, in
+marriage. The Lion consented; but, when he would have given the royal
+virgin into his possession, she, like a giddy thing as she was, not
+minding how she walked, by chance set her paw upon her spouse, who was
+coming to meet her, and crushed him to pieces.
+
+Beware of unequal matches. Alliances prompted by ambition often prove
+fatal.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Charger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully
+provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that
+without hard work. But when war broke out, the heavy armed soldier
+mounted the Horse, and rushed into the very midst of the enemy, and the
+Horse, being wounded, fell dead on the battle-field. Then the Ass,
+seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse,
+saying: "How much more fortunate am I than a charger. I can remain at
+home in safety while he is exposed to all the perils of war."
+
+Be not hasty to envy the condition of others.
+
+
+
+
+The Vain Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds,
+and made proclamation that, on a certain day, they should all present
+themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful
+among them to be king. The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched
+through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had
+fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of
+his body. When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled
+before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his
+many-feathered finery. On Jupiter proposing to make him king, on account
+of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each
+plucking from him his own feathers, the Jackdaw was again nothing but a
+Jackdaw.
+
+Hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes.
+
+
+
+
+The Milkmaid and her Pot of Milk.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Maid was carrying her pail of milk to the farm-house, when she fell
+a-musing. "The money for which this milk will be sold will buy at least
+three hundred eggs. The eggs, allowing for all mishaps, will produce two
+hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become ready for market
+when poultry will fetch the highest price; so that by the end of the
+year I shall have money enough to buy a new gown. In this dress I will
+go to the Christmas junketings, when all the young fellows will propose
+to me, but I will toss my head, and refuse them every one." At this
+moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell
+the Milk-pot to the ground, and broke into a hundred pieces, and all
+her fine schemes perished in a moment.
+
+Count not your chickens before they are hatched.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Playful Ass.
+
+
+An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there,
+broke in the tiling. The owner went up after him, and quickly drove him
+down, beating him severely with a thick wooden cudgel. The Ass said:
+"Why, I saw the Monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all laughed
+heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement."
+
+Those who do not know their right place must be taught it.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Satyr.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man and a Satyr once formed a bond of alliance. One very cold wintry
+day, as they talked together, the Man put his fingers to his mouth and
+blew on them. On the Satyr inquiring the reason, he told him that he did
+it to warm his hands. Later on in the day they sat down to eat, the food
+prepared being quite scalding. The Man raised one of his dishes towards
+his mouth and blew in it. On the Satyr again inquiring the reason, he
+said that he did it to cool the meat. "I can no longer consider you as
+a friend," said the Satyr; "a fellow who with the same breath blows hot
+and cold I could never trust."
+
+A man who talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either.
+
+
+
+
+The Oak and the Reeds.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very large Oak was uprooted by the wind, and thrown across a stream.
+It fell among some Reeds, which it thus addressed: "I wonder how you,
+who are so light and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong
+winds." They replied:
+
+"You fight and contend with the wind, and consequently you are
+destroyed; while we, on the contrary, bend before the least breath of
+air, and therefore remain unbroken."
+
+Stoop to conquer.
+
+
+
+
+The Huntsman and the Fisherman.
+
+
+A Huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance
+with a Fisherman, bringing home a basket laden with fish. The Huntsman
+wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing
+for the contents of the game-bag. They quickly agreed to exchange the
+produce of their day's sport. Each was so well pleased with his bargain,
+that they made for some time the same exchange day after day. A neighbor
+said to them: "If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy, by
+frequent use, the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to
+retain the fruits of his own sport."
+
+Pleasures are heightened by abstinence.
+
+
+
+
+The Mother and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Wolf was prowling about in the morning in search of food. As
+he passed the door of a cottage built in the forest, he heard a mother
+say to her child: "Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and
+the Wolf shall eat you." The Wolf sat all day waiting at the door. In
+the evening he heard the same woman fondling her child, and saying: "He
+is quiet now, and if the Wolf should come, we will kill him." The Wolf,
+hearing these words, went home, gaping with cold and hunger.
+
+Be not in haste to believe what is said in anger or thoughtlessness.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd[B] and the Wolf.
+
+A Shepherd once found a young Wolf, and brought it up, and after a while
+taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The Wolf, having
+shown himself an apt pupil, said to the Shepherd: "Since you have taught
+me to steal, you must keep a sharp look-out, or you will lose some of
+your own flock."
+
+The vices we teach may be practiced against us.
+
+[Transcriber's note B: Original had "Sheperd".]
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dove shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young
+ones which she had hatched. A Crow, hearing her, said: "My good friend,
+cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the number of your
+family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this
+prison-house."
+
+To enjoy our blessings we must have freedom.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and the Three Young Men.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old man was planting a tree, three young men came along and began
+to make sport of him, saying: "It shows your foolishness to be planting
+a tree at your age. The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while you
+must very soon die. What is the use of your wasting your time in
+providing pleasure for others to share long after you are dead?" The old
+man stopped in his labor and replied: "Others before me provided for my
+happiness, and it is my duty to provide for those who shall come after
+me. As for life, who is sure of it for a day? You may all die before
+me." The old man's words came true; one of the young men went on a
+voyage at sea and was drowned, another went to war and was shot, and the
+third fell from a tree and broke his neck.
+
+We should not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember that
+life is uncertain.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox entered into partnership with a Lion, on the pretense of becoming
+his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in accordance with his own
+nature and powers. The Fox discovered and pointed out the prey, the
+Lion sprang on it and seized it. The Fox soon became jealous of the Lion
+carrying off the Lion's share, and said that he would no longer find out
+the prey, but would capture it on his own account. The next day he
+attempted to snatch a lamb from the fold, but fell himself a prey to the
+huntsman and his hounds.
+
+Keep to your place, if you would succeed.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Horse had the plain entirely to himself. A Stag intruded into his
+domain and shared his pasture. The Horse, desiring to revenge himself
+on the stranger, requested a man, if he were willing, to help him in
+punishing the Stag. The man replied, that if the Horse would receive a
+bit in his mouth, and agree to carry him, he would contrive very
+effectual weapons against the Stag. The Horse consented, and allowed the
+man to mount him. From that hour he found that, instead of obtaining
+revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man.
+
+He who seeks to injure others often injures only himself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Dolphin.
+
+A Lion, roaming by the sea-shore, saw a Dolphin lift up its head out of
+the waves, and asked him to contract an alliance with him; saying that
+of all the animals, they ought to be the best friends, since the one was
+the king of beasts on the earth, and the other was the sovereign ruler
+of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The Dolphin gladly consented to
+this request. Not long afterwards the Lion had a combat with a wild
+bull, and called on the Dolphin to help him. The Dolphin, though quite
+willing to give him assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by
+any means reach the land. The Lion abused him as a traitor. The Dolphin
+replied: "Nay, my friend, blame not me, but Nature, which, while giving
+me the sovereignty of the sea, has quite denied me the power of living
+upon the land."
+
+Let every one stick to his own element.
+
+
+
+
+The Mice in Council.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Mice summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means
+for obtaining notice of the approach of their great enemy the Cat. Among
+the many plans devised, the one that found most favor was the proposal
+to tie a bell to the neck of the Cat, that the Mice, being warned by
+the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves in their
+holes at his approach. But when the Mice further debated who among them
+should thus "bell the Cat," there was no one found to do it.
+
+Let those who propose be willing to perform.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Arab.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Arab Camel-driver having completed the lading of his Camel, asked him
+which he would like best, to go up hill or down hill. The poor beast
+replied, not without a touch of reason: "Why do you ask me? Is it that
+the level way through the desert is closed?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Game Cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farm-yard.
+One at last put the other to flight. The vanquished Cock skulked away
+and hid himself in a quiet corner. The conqueror, flying up to a high
+wall, flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. An
+Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him, and carried him off in
+his talons. The vanquished Cock immediately came out of his corner, and
+ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery.
+
+Pride goes before destruction.
+
+
+
+
+The Boys and the Frogs.
+
+
+Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water, and
+began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of
+the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: "Pray stop, my
+boys; what is sport to you is death to us."
+
+What we do in sport often makes great trouble for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Crab and its Mother.
+
+
+A Crab said to her son: "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is
+far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crab replied:
+"Quite true, dear mother; and if you will show me the straight way, I
+will promise to walk in it." The mother tried in vain, and submitted
+without remonstrance to the reproof of her child.
+
+Example is more powerful than precept.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Shepherd.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf followed a flock of sheep for a long time, and did not attempt to
+injure one of them. The Shepherd at first stood on his guard against
+him, as against an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements.
+But when the Wolf, day after day, kept in the company of the sheep, and
+did not make the slightest effort to seize them, the Shepherd began to
+look upon him as a guardian of his flock rather than as a plotter of
+evil against it; and when occasion called him one day into the city, he
+left the sheep entirely in his charge. The Wolf, now that he had the
+opportunity, fell upon the sheep, and destroyed the greater part of the
+flock. The Shepherd, on his return, finding his flock destroyed,
+exclaimed: "I have been rightly served; why did I trust my sheep to a
+Wolf?"
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An evil mind will show in evil action, sooner or later.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and the Lion.
+
+
+A Man and a Lion traveled together through the forest. They soon began
+to boast of their respective superiority to each other in strength and
+prowess. As they were disputing, they passed a statue, carved in stone,
+which represented "A Lion strangled by a Man." The traveler pointed to
+it and said: "See there! How strong we are, and how we prevail over even
+the king of beasts." The Lion replied: "This statue was made by one of
+you men. If we Lions knew how to erect statues, you would see the man
+placed under the paw of the Lion."
+
+One story is good till another is told.
+
+
+
+
+The Ox and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ox, drinking at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs, and crushed
+one of them to death. The mother, coming up and missing one of her sons,
+inquired of his brothers what had become of him. "He is dead, dear
+mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the
+pool, and crushed him to death with his cloven heel." The Frog, puffing
+herself out, inquired, "If the beast was as big as that in size."
+"Cease, mother, to puff yourself out," said her son, "and do not be
+angry; for you would, I assure you, sooner burst than successfully
+imitate the hugeness of that monster."
+
+Impossible things we cannot hope to attain, and it is of no use to try.
+
+
+
+
+The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat.
+
+
+The Birds waged war with the Beasts, and each party were by turns the
+conquerors. A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always
+betook himself to that side which was the strongest. When peace was
+proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both the combatants;
+he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed
+himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night.
+
+Those who practice deceit must expect to be shunned.
+
+
+
+
+The Charcoal-Burner and the Fuller.
+
+
+A Charcoal-burner carried on his trade in his own house. One day he met
+a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying
+that they should be far better neighbors, and that their housekeeping
+expenses would be lessened. The Fuller replied: "The arrangement is
+impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you
+would immediately blacken again with your charcoal."
+
+Like will draw like.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bull, escaping from a Lion, entered a cave, which some shepherds had
+lately occupied. A He-goat was left in it, who sharply attacked him with
+his horns. The Bull quietly addressed him--"Butt away as much as you
+will. I have no fear of you, but of the Lion. Let that monster once go,
+and I will soon let you know what is the respective strength of a Goat
+and a Bull."
+
+It shows an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Mouse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising
+up in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, when the Mouse
+piteously entreated, saying: "If you would only spare my life, I would
+be sure to repay your kindness." The Lion laughed and let him go. It
+happened shortly after this that the Lion was caught by some hunters,
+who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The Mouse, recognizing his
+roar, came up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and, setting him
+free, exclaimed: "You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help
+you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; but
+now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on
+a Lion."
+
+No one is too weak to do good.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Ass.
+
+
+A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. The Ass
+being heavily laden moved slowly out of the way. "Hardly," said the
+Horse, "can I resist kicking you with my heels." The Ass held his peace,
+and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. Not long
+afterward, the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner
+to the farm. The Ass, seeing him drawing a dung-cart, thus derided him.
+"Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who art thyself
+reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?"
+
+
+
+
+The Old Hound.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound, who in the days of his youth and strength had never yielded to
+any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar in the chase.
+He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because
+of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly
+coming up, was very much disappointed, and fiercely abused the dog. The
+Hound looked up and said: "It was not my fault, master; my spirit was as
+good as ever, but I could not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve
+to be praised for what I have been, than to be blamed for what I am."
+
+No one should be blamed for his infirmities.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Pitcher.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water,
+flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered to his
+grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get
+at it. He tried everything he could think of to reach the water, but
+all his efforts were in vain. At last he collected as many stones as he
+could carry, and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher,
+until he brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life.
+
+Necessity is the mother of invention.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Eating Thistles.
+
+
+An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time
+of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the
+reapers to dine upon. By the way he met with a fine large Thistle, and,
+being very hungry, began to mumble it; and while he was doing so he
+entered into this reflection: "How many greedy epicures would think
+themselves happy, amidst such a variety of delicate viands as I now
+carry! But to me this bitter, prickly Thistle is more savory and
+relishing than the most exquisite and sumptuous banquet. Let others
+choose what they may for food, but give me, above everything, a fine
+juicy thistle like this and I will be content."
+
+Every one to his taste: one man's meat is another man's poison, and one
+man's poison is another man's meat; what is rejected by one person may
+be valued very highly by another.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having stolen a lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his
+lair. A Lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from
+him. The Wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed: "You have
+unrighteously taken from me that which was mine." The Lion jeeringly
+replied: "It was righteously yours, eh? Was it the gift of a friend, or
+did you get it by purchase? If you did not get it in one way or the
+other, how then did you come by it?"
+
+One thief is no better than another.
+
+
+
+
+The King's Son and the Painted Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A King who had one only son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream in
+which he was warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid lest
+the dream should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace, and
+adorned its walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals of the
+size of life, among which was the picture of a lion. When the young
+Prince saw this, his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and
+standing near the lion, he thus spoke: "O you most detestable of
+animals! through a lying dream of my father's, which he saw in his
+sleep, I am shut up on your account in this palace as if I had been a
+girl. What shall I now do to you?" With these words he stretched out his
+hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches that
+he might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles pierced his
+finger, and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince
+fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from which
+he died not many days after.
+
+We had better bear our troubles bravely than try to escape them.
+
+
+
+
+The Trees and the Axe.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Man came into a forest, and made a petition to the Trees to provide
+him a handle for his axe. The Trees consented to his request, and gave
+him a young ash-tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle
+to his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes
+the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too late
+the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar: "The
+first step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of the
+ash, we might yet have retained our own privileges and have stood for
+ages."
+
+In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.
+
+
+
+
+The Seaside Travelers.
+
+
+Some travelers, journeying along the sea-shore, climbed to the summit of
+a tall cliff, and from thence looking over the sea, saw in the distance
+what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope of seeing it
+enter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked was driven by
+the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could at the most be a
+small boat, and not a ship. When, however, it reached the beach, they
+discovered that it was only a large fagot of sticks, and one of them
+said to his companions: "We have waited for no purpose, for after all
+there is nothing to see but a fagot."
+
+Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities.
+
+
+
+
+The Sea-gull and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Sea-gull, who was more at home swimming on the sea than walking on the
+land, was in the habit of catching live fish for its food. One day,
+having bolted down too large a fish, it burst its deep gullet-bag, and
+lay down on the shore to die. A Kite, seeing him, and thinking him a
+land bird like itself, exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a
+bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea."
+
+Every man should be content to mind his own business.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Camel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The beasts of the forest gave a splendid entertainment, at which the
+Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted the assembly, he sat
+down amidst universal applause. The Camel, envious of the praises
+bestowed on the Monkey, and desirous to divert to himself the favor of
+the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn, and dance for their
+amusement. He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner, that the
+Beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs, and drove him
+out of the assembly.
+
+It is absurd to ape our betters.
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Elephant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat, traveling on the highway, met a huge elephant, bearing his royal
+master and his suite, and also his favorite cat and dog, and parrot and
+monkey. The great beast and his attendants were followed by an admiring
+crowd, taking up all of the road. "What fools you are," said the Rat to
+the people, "to make such a hubbub over an elephant. Is it his great
+bulk that you so much admire? It can only frighten little boys and
+girls, and I can do that as well. I am a beast; as well as he, and have
+as many legs and ears and eyes. He has no right to take up all the
+highway, which belongs as much to me as to him." At this moment, the cat
+spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced him that he
+was not an elephant.
+
+Because we are like the great in one respect we must not think we are
+like them in all.
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman Piping.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the
+sea-shore. Standing on a projecting rock he played several tunes, in the
+hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord
+dance into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
+waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and casting his net into the
+sea, made an excellent haul.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the House-dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, meeting with a big, well-fed Mastiff, having a wooden collar
+about his neck, inquired of him who it was that fed him so well, and yet
+compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. "The
+master," he replied. Then, said the Wolf: "May no friend of mine ever be
+in such a plight; for the weight of this chain is enough to spoil the
+appetite."
+
+Nothing can compensate us for the loss of our liberty.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Kite.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree, in
+company with a Kite. "Why," said the Kite, "do I see you with such a
+rueful look?" "I seek," she replied, "for a mate suitable for me, and am
+not able to find one." "Take me," returned the Kite; "I am much stronger
+than you are." "Why, are you able to secure the means of living by your
+plunder?" "Well, I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my
+talons." The Eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
+Shortly after the nuptials, the Eagle said: "Fly off, and bring me back
+the ostrich you promised me." The Kite, soaring aloft into the air,
+brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. "Is this," said the Eagle,
+"the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me?" The Kite replied:
+"That I might attain to your royal hand, there is nothing that I would
+not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the
+performance."
+
+Promises of a suitor must be taken with caution.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Hides.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cow-hides steeping in a river.
+Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river; but it
+fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they
+reached the hides.
+
+Attempt not impossibilities.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Fisherman and the Little Fish
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman who lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a
+single small fish as the result of his day's labor. The fish, panting
+convulsively, thus entreated for his life: "O Sir, what good can I be
+to you, and how little am I worth! I am not yet come to my full size.
+Pray spare my life, and put me back into the sea. I shall soon become a
+large fish, fit for the tables of the rich; and then you can catch me
+again, and make a handsome profit of me." The fisherman replied: "I
+should be a very simple fellow, if I were to forego my certain gain for
+an uncertain profit."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Purchaser.
+
+
+A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he
+should try him before he bought him. He took the Ass home, and put him
+in the straw-yard with his other Asses, upon which he left all the
+others, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greatest
+eater of them all. The man put a halter on him, and led him back to his
+owner, saying: "I do not need a trial; I know that he will be just such
+another as the one whom he chose for his companion."
+
+A man is known by the company he keeps.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Shepherd, driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size,
+full of acorns, and, spreading his cloak under the branches, he climbed
+up into the tree, and shook down the acorns. The sheep, eating the
+acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The Shepherd coming down, and seeing
+what was done, said: "O you most ungrateful creatures! you provide wool
+to make garments for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of him
+who feeds you."
+
+The basest ingratitude is that which injures those who serve us.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Crow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Crow, having stolen a bit of flesh, perched in a tree, and held it in
+her beak. A Fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself of the flesh, and
+by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is the Crow," he exclaimed,
+"in the beauty of her shape and in the fairness of her complexion! Oh,
+if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be
+considered the Queen of Birds!" This he said deceitfully, having greater
+admiration for the meat than for the crow. But the Crow, all her vanity
+aroused by the cunning flattery, and anxious to refute the reflection
+cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw, and dropped the flesh. The Fox
+quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the Crow: "My good Crow, your
+voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting."
+
+He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it has no good purpose.
+
+
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow.
+
+
+The Swallow and the Crow had a contention about their plumage. The Crow
+put an end to the dispute by saying: "Your feathers are all very well in
+the spring, but mine protect me against the winter."
+
+Fine weather friends are not worth much.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cottager and his wife had a Hen, which laid every day a golden egg.
+They supposed that it must contain a great lump of gold in its inside,
+and killed it in order that they might get it, when, to their surprise,
+they found that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens.
+The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived
+themselves of the gain of which they were day by day assured.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Man and Death.
+
+
+An old man was employed in cutting wood in the forest, and, in carrying
+the fagots into the city for sale. One day, being very wearied with his
+long journey, he sat down by the wayside, and, throwing down his load,
+besought "Death" to come. "Death" immediately appeared, in answer to his
+summons, and asked for what reason he had called him. The old man
+replied: "That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my
+shoulders."
+
+We do not always like to be taken at our word.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Leopard.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox and the Leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the
+two. The Leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated
+his skin. The Fox, interrupting him, said: "And how much more beautiful
+than you am I, who am decorated, not in body, but in mind."
+
+People are not to be judged by their coats.
+
+
+
+
+The Mountain in Labor.
+
+
+A Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard;
+and crowds of people came from all parts to see what was the matter.
+While they were assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible
+calamity, out came a Mouse.
+
+Don't make much ado about nothing.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Two Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two men were traveling together, when a bear suddenly met them on their
+path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tree, and concealed himself
+in the branches. The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat
+on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout,
+and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance
+of death as much as he could. The Bear soon left him, for it is said he
+will not touch a dead body. When he was quite gone, the other traveler
+descended from the tree, and, accosting his friend, jocularly inquired
+"what it was the Bear had whispered in his ear?" His friend replied: "He
+gave me this advice: Never travel with a friend who deserts you at the
+approach of danger."
+
+Misfortune tests the sincerity of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Kite.
+
+
+A Kite, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do not mourn,
+but at once invoke the gods that my life may be prolonged." She replied:
+"Alas! my son, which of the gods do you think will pity you? Is there
+one whom you have not outraged by filching from their very altars a part
+of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them?"
+
+We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have their help in
+adversity.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf, having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a Crane, for a large
+sum, to put her head into his throat and draw out the bone. When the
+Crane had extracted the bone, and demanded the promised payment, the
+Wolf, grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed: "Why, you have surely
+already a sufficient recompense, in having been permitted to draw out
+your head in safety from the mouth and jaws of a Wolf."
+
+In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape
+injury for your pains.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Cock.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Cat caught a Cock, and took counsel with himself how he might find a
+reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him as being a nuisance to
+men, by crowing in the night time, and not permitting them to sleep. The
+Cock defended himself by saying that he did this for the benefit of
+men, that they might rise betimes, for their labors. The Cat replied:
+"Although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain
+supperless;" and he made a meal of him.
+
+It does no good to deny those who make false accusations knowingly.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Horse.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf coming out of a field of oats met with a Horse, and thus
+addressed him: "I would advise you to go into that field. It is full of
+capital oats, which I have left untouched for you, as you are a friend
+the very sound of whose teeth it will be a pleasure to me to hear." The
+Horse replied: "If oats had been the food for wolves, you would never
+have indulged your ears at the cost of your belly."
+
+Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get
+credit for it.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Soldiers and the Robber.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Soldiers, traveling together, were set upon by a Robber. The one
+fled away; the other stood his ground, and defended himself with his
+stout right hand. The Robber being slain, the timid companion runs up
+and draws his sword, and then, throwing back his traveling cloak, says:
+"I'll at him, and I'll take care he shall learn whom he has attacked."
+On this, he who had fought with the Robber made answer: "I only wish
+that you had helped me just now, even if it had been only with those
+words, for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them to be
+true; but now put up your sword in its sheath and hold your equally
+useless tongue, till you can deceive others who do not know you. I,
+indeed, who have experienced with what speed you ran away, know right
+well that no dependence can be placed on your valor."
+
+When a coward is once found out, his pretensions of valor are useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Monkey and the Cat.
+
+
+A Monkey and a Cat lived in the same family, and it was hard to tell
+which was the greatest thief. One day, as they were roaming about
+together, they spied some chestnuts roasting in the ashes. "Come," said
+the cunning Monkey, "we shall not go without our dinner to-day. Your
+claws are better than mine for the purpose; you pull them out of the
+hot ashes and you shall have half." Pussy pulled them out one by one,
+burning her claws very much in doing so. When she had stolen them all,
+she found that the Monkey had eaten every one.
+
+A thief cannot be trusted, even by another thief.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. The pool being dried up under the
+summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As
+they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with
+water, on seeing which, one of the Frogs said to the other: "Let us
+descend and make our abode in this well." The other replied with greater
+caution: "But suppose the water should fail us, how can we get out again
+from so great a depth?"
+
+Do nothing without a regard to the consequences.
+
+
+
+
+The Vine and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Vine was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes. A
+Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. The Vine
+said: "Why do you thus injure me and crop my leaves? Is there no young
+grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge; for
+if you now crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide
+the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the
+sacrifice."
+
+Retribution is certain.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Boasting Rat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mouse lived in a granary which became, after a while, the frequent
+resort of a Cat. The Mouse was in great fear and did not know what to
+do. In her strait, she bethought herself of a Rat who lived not far
+away, and who had said in her hearing a hundred times that he was not
+afraid of any cat living. She resolved to visit the bold Rat and ask
+him to drive the Cat away. She found the Rat in his hole and relating
+her story, besought his help. "Pooh!" said the Rat, "You should be bold
+as I am; go straight about your affairs, and do not mind the Cat. I will
+soon follow you, and drive him away." He thought, now, he must do
+something to make good his boast. So he collected all the Rats in the
+neighborhood, resolved to frighten the Cat by numbers. But when they all
+came to the granary, they found that the Cat had already caught the
+foolish Mouse, and a single growl from him sent them all scampering to
+their holes.
+
+Do not rely upon a boaster.
+
+
+
+
+The Dogs and the Fox.
+
+
+Some Dogs, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with
+their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said: "If this lion were alive, you
+would soon find out that his claws were stronger than your teeth."
+
+It is easy to kick a man that is down.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and the House-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Thief came in the night to break into a house. He brought with him
+several slices of meat, that he might pacify the House-dog, so that he
+should not alarm his master by barking. As the Thief threw him the
+pieces of meat, the Dog said: "If you think to stop my mouth, to relax
+my vigilance, or even to gain my regard by these gifts, you will be
+greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness at your hands will only make me
+more watchful, lest under these unexpected favors to myself you have
+some private ends to accomplish for your own benefit, and for my
+master's injury. Besides, this is not the time that I am usually fed,
+which makes me all the more suspicions of your intentions."
+
+He who offers bribes needs watching, for his intentions are not honest.
+
+
+
+
+The Sick Stag.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A sick Stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture-ground. His
+companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, and each
+one helped himself to a share of the food which had been placed for his
+use; so that he died, not from his sickness, but from the failure of the
+means of living.
+
+Evil companions bring more hurt than profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Fowler and the Ringdove.
+
+
+A Fowler took his gun, and went into the woods a shooting. He spied a
+Ringdove among the branches of an oak, and intended to kill it. He
+clapped the piece to his shoulder, and took his aim accordingly. But,
+just as he was going to pull the trigger, an adder, which he had trod
+upon under the grass, stung him so painfully in the leg that he was
+forced to quit his design, and threw his gun down in a passion. The
+poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body began to
+mortify; which, when he perceived, he could not help owning it to be
+just. "Fate," said he, "has brought destruction upon me while I was
+contriving the death of another."
+
+Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others.
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Kid, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued by a
+Wolf. He turned round, and said to the Wolf: "I know, friend Wolf, that
+I must be your prey; but before I die, I would ask of you one favor,
+that you will play me a tune, to which I may dance." The Wolf complied,
+and while he was piping, and the Kid was dancing, the hounds, hearing
+the sound, came up and gave chase to the Wolf. The Wolf, turning to the
+Kid, said: "It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher,
+should not have turned piper to please you."
+
+Every one should keep his own colors.
+
+
+
+
+The Blind Man and the Whelp.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Blind Man was accustomed to distinguish different animals by touching
+them with his hands. The whelp of a Wolf was brought him, with a
+request that he would feel it, and say what it was. He felt it, and
+being in doubt, said: "I do not quite know whether it is the cub of a
+Fox, or the whelp of a Wolf; but this I know full well, that it would
+not be safe to admit him to the sheepfold."
+
+Evil tendencies are shown early in life.
+
+
+
+
+The Geese and the Cranes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Geese and the Cranes fed in the same meadow. A bird-catcher came to
+ensnare them in his nets. The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at
+his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in
+their bodies, were captured.
+
+Those who are caught are not always the most guilty.
+
+
+
+
+The North Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The North Wind and the Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and
+agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a
+wayfaring man of his clothes. The North Wind first tried his power, and
+blew with all his might; but the keener became his blasts, the closer
+the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all
+hope of victory, he called upon the Sun to see what he could do. The Sun
+suddenly shone out with all his warmth. The Traveler no sooner felt his
+genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last,
+fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a stream that lay in
+his path.
+
+Persuasion is better than Force.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Laborer and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted
+a severe bite on the Cottager's infant son, of which he died, to the
+great grief of his parents. The father resolved to kill the Snake, and
+the next day, on its coming out of its hole for food, took up his axe;
+but, making too much haste to hit him as he wriggled away, missed his
+head, and cut off only the end of his tail. After some time, the
+Cottager, afraid lest the Snake should bite him also, endeavored to make
+peace, and placed some bread and salt in his hole. The Snake said:
+"There can henceforth be no peace between us; for whenever I see you I
+shall remember the loss of my tail, and whenever you see me you will be
+thinking of the death of your son."
+
+It is hard to forget injuries in the presence of him who caused the
+injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Bull and the Calf.
+
+
+A Bull was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through a
+narrow passage which led to his stall. A young Calf came up and offered
+to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.
+"Save yourself the trouble," said the Bull; "I knew that way long before
+you were born."
+
+Do not presume to teach your elders.
+
+
+
+
+The Goat and the Ass.
+
+
+A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass. The Goat, envying the Ass on account
+of his greater abundance of food, said: "How shamefully you are treated;
+at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy
+burdens;" and he further advised him that he should pretend to be
+epileptic, and fall into a deep ditch and so obtain rest. The Ass gave
+credence to his words, and, falling into a ditch, was very much bruised.
+His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice. He bade him pour upon
+the wounds the blood of a Goat. They at once killed the Goat, and so
+healed the Ass.
+
+In injuring others we are apt to receive a greater injury.
+
+
+
+
+The Boasting Traveler.
+
+
+A Man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning
+to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic things he had done
+in the different places he had visited. Among other things, he said
+that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man
+of his day could leap anywhere near him--and as to that there were in
+Rhodes many persons who saw him do it, and whom he could call as
+witnesses. One of the bystanders, interrupting him, said: "Now, my good
+man, if this be all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this to
+be Rhodes and now for your leap."
+
+Cure a boaster by putting his words to the test.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ass, the Cock, and the Lion.
+
+
+An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger,
+approached. He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to the
+sound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion)
+crowed loudly, and the Lion fled away. The Ass, observing his
+trepidation at the mere crowing of a cock, summoned courage to attack
+him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run no long
+distance when the Lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to
+pieces.
+
+False confidence often leads into danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag and the Fawn.
+
+
+A Stag, grown old and mischievous, was, according to custom, stamping
+with his foot, making offers with his head, and bellowing so terribly
+that the whole herd quaked for fear of him; when one of the little
+Fawns, coming up, addressed him thus: "Pray, what is the reason that
+you, who are so formidable at all other times, if you do but hear the
+cry of the hounds, are ready to fly out of your skin for fear?" "What
+you observe is true," replied the Stag, "though I know not how to
+account for it. I am indeed vigorous and able, and often resolve that
+nothing shall ever dismay my courage; but, alas! I no sooner hear the
+voice of a hound but my spirits fail me, and I cannot help making off as
+fast as my legs can carry me."
+
+The greatest braggarts are the greatest cowards.
+
+
+
+
+The Partridge and the Fowler.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fowler caught a Partridge, and was about to kill him. The Partridge
+earnestly besought him to spare his life, saying: "Pray, master, permit
+me to live, and I will entice many Partridges to you in recompense for
+your mercy to me." The Fowler replied: "I shall now with the less
+scruple take your life, because you are willing to save it at the cost
+of betraying your friends and relations;" and without more ado he
+twisted his neck and put him in his bag with his other game.
+
+Those who would sacrifice their friends to save themselves from harm are
+not entitled to mercy.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Stork.
+
+
+A Farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plough lands, and caught a
+quantity of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped
+a Stork also. The Stork, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly
+besought the Farmer to spare his life. "Pray, save me, Master," he said,
+"and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity.
+Besides, I am no Crane, I am a Stork, a bird of excellent character; and
+see how I love and slave for my father and mother. Look too at my
+feathers, they are not the least like to those of a Crane." The Farmer
+laughed aloud, and said: "It may be all as you say; I only know this, I
+have taken you with these robbers, the Cranes, and you must die in their
+company."
+
+Birds of a feather flock together.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Driver.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and
+bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. When he was in the act of
+throwing himself over, his owner, seizing him by the tail, endeavored to
+pull him back. The Ass persisting in his effort, the man let him go,
+and said: "Conquer; but conquer to your cost."
+
+The perverse generally come to harm.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Hound
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hound having started a Hare from his form, after a long run, gave up
+the chase. A Goat-herd, seeing him stop, mocked him, saying: "The little
+one is the best runner of the two." The hound replied; "You do not see
+the difference between us; I was only running for a dinner, but he for
+his life."
+
+Incentive spurs effort.
+
+
+
+
+The Kites and the Swans.
+
+
+The Kites of old time had, equally with the Swans, the privilege of
+song. But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted
+with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh,
+they forgot how to sing.
+
+The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of present
+blessings.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog in the Manger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog lay in a manger, and by his growling and snapping prevented the
+oxen from eating the hay which had been placed for them. "What a
+selfish Dog!" said one of them to his companions; "he cannot eat the hay
+himself, and yet refuses to allow those to eat who can."
+
+We should not deprive others of blessings because we cannot enjoy them
+ourselves.
+
+
+
+
+The Crow and the Serpent.
+
+
+A Crow, in great want of food, saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and
+flying down, greedily seized him. The Serpent, turning about, bit the
+Crow with a mortal wound. The Crow in the agony of death exclaimed: "O
+unhappy me! who have found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall
+the source of my certain destruction."
+
+What seem to be blessings are not always so.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As the Cat and the Fox were talking politics together, Reynard said:
+"Let things turn out ever so bad, he did not care, for he had a thousand
+tricks for them yet, before they should hurt him." "But pray," says he,
+"Mrs. Puss, suppose there should be an invasion, what course do you
+design to take?" "Nay," says the Cat, "I have but one shift for it, and
+if that won't do, I am undone." "I am sorry for you," replies Reynard,
+"with all my heart, and would gladly help you, but indeed, neighbor, as
+times go, it is not good to trust; we must even be every one for
+himself, as the saying is." These words were scarcely out of his mouth,
+when they were alarmed with a pack of hounds, that came upon them in
+full cry. The Cat, by the help of her single shift, ran up a tree, and
+sat securely among the top branches; from whence she beheld Reynard,
+who had not been able to get out of sight, overtaken with his thousand
+tricks, and torn in as many pieces by the dogs which had surrounded him.
+
+A little common sense is often of more value than much cunning.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Arrow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare, whom he
+sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw him from a place of
+concealment, took an accurate aim, and wounded him mortally. The Eagle
+gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart, and saw in that
+single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself. "It is a
+double grief to me," he exclaimed, "that I should perish by an arrow
+feathered from my own wings."
+
+The misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct are the hardest to
+bear.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Invited to Supper.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gentleman, having prepared a great feast, invited a Friend to supper;
+and the Gentleman's Dog, meeting the Friend's Dog, "Come," said he, "my
+good fellow, and sup with us to-night." The Dog was delighted with the
+invitation, and as he stood by and saw the preparations for the feast,
+said to himself: "Capital fare indeed! this is, in truth, good luck. I
+shall revel in dainties, and I will take good care to lay in an ample
+stock to-night, for I may have nothing to eat to-morrow." As he said
+this to himself, he wagged his tail, and gave a sly look at his friend
+who had incited him. But his tail wagging to and fro caught the cook's
+eye, who, seeing a stranger, straightway seized him by the legs, and
+threw him out the window to the street below. When he reached the
+ground, he set off yelping down the street; upon which the neighbors'
+dogs ran up to him and asked him how he liked his supper. "In faith,"
+said he, with a sorry smile, "I hardly know, for we drank so deeply,
+that I can't even tell you which way I got out."
+
+Those who enter by the back stairs must not complain if they are thrown
+out by the window.
+
+
+
+
+The Frogs Asking for a King.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to
+Jupiter entreating for a King. He, perceiving their simplicity, cast
+down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs, terrified at the splash
+occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of the pool. But no
+sooner did they see that the huge log continued motionless, than they
+swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so
+to despise it as to climb up, and to squat upon it. After some time they
+began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a
+Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set
+over them another sovereign. He then gave them an Eel to govern them.
+When the Frogs discovered his easy good-nature, they yet a third time
+sent to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose for them another
+King. Jupiter, displeased at their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed
+upon the Frogs day by day, till there were none left to complain.
+
+When you seek to change your condition, be sure that you can better it.
+
+
+
+
+The Prophet.
+
+
+A Wizard, sitting in the market-place, told the fortunes of the
+passers-by. A person ran up in great haste, and announced to him that
+the doors of his house had been broken open, and that all his goods
+were being stolen. He sighed heavily, and hastened away as fast as he
+could run. A neighbor saw him running, and said: "Oh! you follow those?
+you say you can foretell the fortunes of others; how is it you did not
+foresee your own?"
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and his Master's Dinner.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog had been taught to take his master's dinner to him every day. As
+he smelled the good things in the basket, he was sorely tempted to taste
+them, but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day to
+carry the basket faithfully. One day all the dogs in the neighborhood
+followed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, and tried to steal the
+dinner from the basket. At first the faithful dog tried to run away
+from them, but they pressed him so close that at last he stopped to
+argue with them. This was what the thieves desired, and they soon
+ridiculed him to that extent that he said: "Very well, I will divide
+with you," and he seized the best piece of chicken in the basket, and
+left the rest for the others to enjoy.
+
+He who stops to parley with temptation, will be very likely to yield.
+
+
+
+
+The Buffoon and the Countryman.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A rich nobleman once opened the theater to the public without charge,
+and gave notice that he would handsomely reward any one who would
+produce a new amusement. A Buffoon, well known for his jokes, said that
+he had a kind of entertainment that had never been produced in a
+theater. This report, being spread about, created a great stir in the
+place, and the theater was crowded to see the new entertainment. The
+Buffoon appeared, and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so
+admirably with his voice, that the audience declared that he had a
+porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out. When
+that was done, and yet nothing was found, they cheered the actor, with
+the loudest applause. A countryman in the crowd proclaimed that he would
+do the same thing on the next day. On the morrow a still larger crowd
+assembled in the theater. Both of the performers appeared on the stage.
+The Buffoon grunted and squeaked, and obtained, as on the preceding
+day, the applause and cheers of the spectators. Next the Countryman
+commenced, and pretending that he concealed a little pig beneath his
+clothes (which in truth he did), contrived to lay hold of and to pull
+his ear, when he began to squeak. The crowd, however, cried out that the
+Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation. On this the Rustic
+produced the pig, and showed them the greatness of their mistake.
+
+Critics are not always to be depended upon.
+
+
+
+
+The Boar and the Ass.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind
+to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant." The Boar,
+somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to him, and told him he
+was surprised to hear him utter so impudent an untruth, and was just
+going to show his resentment by giving him a rip in the flank; but
+wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying: "Go, you
+sorry beast! I do not care to foul my tusks with the blood of so base a
+creature."
+
+Dignity cannot afford to quarrel with its inferiors.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, having fallen into a well, could find no means of escape. A Goat,
+overcome with thirst, came to the well, and, seeing the Fox, inquired if
+the water was good. The Fox, concealing his sad plight under a merry
+guise, indulged in lavish praise of the water, saying it was beyond
+measure excellent, and encouraged him to descend. The Goat, mindful only
+of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, when, just as he quenched his
+thirst, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in, and
+suggested a scheme for their common escape. "If," said he, "you will
+place your fore-feet upon the wall, and bend your head, I will run up
+your back and escape, and will help you out." On the Goat readily
+assenting to this proposal, the Fox leaped upon his back, and steadying
+himself with the goat's horns reached in safety the mouth of the well,
+and immediately made off as fast as he could. The Goat upbraided him
+with the breach of his bargain, when he turned round and cried out:
+"You foolish fellow! If you had as many brains in your head as you have
+hairs in your beard, you would never have gone down before you had
+inspected the way up, nor have exposed yourself to dangers from which
+you had determined upon no means of escape."
+
+Look before you leap.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Butchers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Oxen, once on a time, sought to destroy the Butchers, who practiced
+a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a certain day to
+carry out their purpose, and sharpened their horns for the contest. One
+of them, an exceedingly old one (for many a field had he ploughed), thus
+spoke: "These Butchers, it is true, slaughter us, but they do so with
+skillful hands, and with no unnecessary pain. If we get rid of them, we
+shall fall into the hands of unskillful operators, and thus suffer a
+double death; for you may be assured that, though all the Butchers
+should perish, yet will men never want beef."
+
+Do not be in a hurry to change one evil for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and his Rider.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Horse-soldier took great pains with his charger. As long as the war
+lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies, and
+fed him carefully with hay and corn. When the war was over, he only
+allowed him chaff to eat, and made him carry heavy loads of wood, and
+subjected him to much slavish drudgery and ill-treatment. War, however,
+being again proclaimed, the Soldier put on his charger its military
+trappings, and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. The Horse
+fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden,
+and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for
+you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."
+
+He who slights his friends when they are not needed must not expect them
+to serve him when he needs them.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Hare.
+
+
+A Hound, having started a Hare on the hill-side, pursued her for some
+distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her
+life, and at another time fawning upon her, as if in play with another
+dog. The Hare said to him: "I wish you would act sincerely by me, and
+show yourself in your true colors. If you are a friend, why do you bite
+me so hard? If an enemy, why do you fawn on me?"
+
+They are no friends whom you know not whether to trust or to distrust.
+
+
+
+
+The Fawn and his Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A young Fawn once said to his mother: "You are larger than a dog, and
+swifter, and more used to running; why, then, O Mother! are you always
+in such a terrible fright of the hounds?" She smiled, and said: "I know
+full well, my son, that all you say is true. I have the advantages you
+mention, but yet when I hear the bark of a single dog I feel ready to
+faint."
+
+No arguments will give courage to the coward.
+
+
+
+
+The Lark and her Young Ones.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lark had made her nest in the young green wheat. The brood had almost
+grown, when the owner of the field, overlooking his crop, said: "I must
+send to all my neighbors to help me with my harvest." One of the young
+Larks heard him, and asked his mother to what place they should move for
+safety. "There is no occasion to move yet, my son," she replied. The
+owner of the field came a few days later, and said: "I will come myself
+to-morrow, and will get in the harvest." Then the Lark said to her
+brood: "It is time now to be off--he no longer trusts to his friends,
+but will reap the field himself."
+
+Self-help is the best help.
+
+
+
+
+The Bowman and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A very skillful Bowman went to the mountains in search of game. All the
+beasts of the forest fled at his approach. The Lion alone challenged him
+to combat. The Bowman immediately let fly an arrow; and said to the
+Lion: "I send thee my messenger, that from him thou mayest learn what I
+myself shall be when I assail thee." The Lion, thus wounded, rushed,
+away in great fear, and on a Fox exhorting him to be of good courage,
+and not to run away at the first attack, he replied: "You counsel me in
+vain, for if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall I abide the
+attack of the man himself?"
+
+A man who can strike from a distance is no pleasant neighbor.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy and the Filberts.
+
+
+A Boy put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many
+as he could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to pull out his hand,
+he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher, which was
+much smaller than his closed hand. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and
+yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears, and bitterly
+lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him: "Be satisfied with
+half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand."
+
+Do not attempt too much at once.
+
+
+
+
+The Woman and her Hen.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Woman possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often
+thought with herself how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of
+one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a
+double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek,
+and never once laid another egg.
+
+Covetousness overreacheth itself.
+
+
+
+
+The Lamb and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf pursued a Lamb, which fled for refuge to a certain temple. The
+Wolf called out to him and said: "The priest will slay you in
+sacrifice, if he should catch you;" on which the Lamb replied: "It would
+be better for me to be sacrificed in the temple, than to be eaten by
+you."
+
+It is safer to be among friends than enemies.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Gardener.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Gardener, who lived alone, became discontented, and set out, one day,
+to seek a friend who would be a suitable companion. He had not gone far
+when he met a Bear, whom he invited to come and live with him. The Bear
+was a very silly one, who was also discontented with living alone, so he
+went home with the Gardener very willingly. The Gardener provided all
+the food, and the only service he required of the Bear was to keep the
+flies off his face while he slept in the shade. One day, a fly insisted
+upon lighting on the Gardener's face, although he was brushed off again
+and again. The silly Bear finally became so enraged that he threw a
+heavy stone upon it. He killed the fly, but, alas! he also killed his
+friend.
+
+Better have no friend at all than a foolish one.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer and the Ox.
+
+
+A Heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plough, and tormented him
+with reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor.
+Shortly afterward, at the harvest home, the owner released the Ox from
+his yoke, but bound the Heifer with cords, and led her away to the altar
+to be slain in honor of the festival. The Ox saw what was being done,
+and said to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in idleness,
+because you were presently to be sacrificed."
+
+The lives of the idle can best be spared.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to live
+near each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Fox
+crept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,
+when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provision
+for her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,
+and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering what
+had happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for her
+inability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon
+the Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were
+sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carried
+with it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned the
+spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were
+roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.
+The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle.
+
+The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk and the Nightingale.
+
+
+A Nightingale, sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by a Hawk, who made a
+swoop down, and seized him. The Nightingale earnestly besought the Hawk
+to let him go, saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the hunger
+of a Hawk, who ought to pursue the larger birds. The Hawk said: "I
+should indeed have lost my senses if I should let go food ready to my
+hand, for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet even within
+sight."
+
+A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
+
+
+
+
+The Hen and the Swallow.
+
+
+A Hen finding the eggs of a viper, and carefully keeping them warm,
+nourished them into life. A Swallow observing what she had done, said:
+"You silly creature! Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when they
+shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all of us, beginning
+with yourself?"
+
+If we nourish evil, it will sooner or later turn upon us.
+
+
+
+
+The Herdsman and the Lost Bull.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Herdsman, tending kine in a forest, lost a Bull-calf from the fold.
+After a long and fruitless search, he made a vow that, if he could only
+discover the thief who had stolen the Calf he would offer a lamb in
+sacrifice to the Guardian Deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as
+he ascended a small hillock, he saw at its foot a Lion feeding on the
+Calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted his eyes and his hands to
+heaven, and said: "Just now I vowed to offer a lamb to the Guardian
+Deities of the forest if I could only find out who had robbed me; but
+now that I have discovered the thief, I would willingly add a full-grown
+Bull to the Calf I have lost, and give them both to the guardians of the
+forest, if I may only secure my own escape from this terrible Lion in
+safety."
+
+[Illustration]
+
+That which we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more anxious to
+escape from, when we have succeeded in finding it.
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd's Boy and Wolf.
+
+
+A Shepherd-boy, who watched a flock of sheep near a village, brought out
+the villagers three or four times by crying out, "Wolf! Wolf!" and when
+his neighbors came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The
+Wolf, however, did truly come at last. The Shepherd-boy, now really
+alarmed, shouted in an agony of terror: "Pray, do come and help me; the
+Wolf is killing the sheep;" but no one paid any heed to his cries.
+
+There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.
+
+
+
+
+The Hawk, the Kite, and the Pigeons.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk
+to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into
+the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of
+them in a single day, than the Kite could possibly pounce upon in a
+whole year.
+
+Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and the Cranes.
+
+
+Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plough-lands newly sown
+with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling,
+chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found
+that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice
+of it, and would not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling
+with stones, and killed a great number. They at once forsook his
+plough-lands, and cried to each other: "It is time for us to be off, for
+this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in
+earnest what he can do."
+
+If words suffice not, blows must follow.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Mice.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain house was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this, made her
+way into it, and began to catch and eat them one by one. The Mice, being
+continually devoured, kept themselves close in their holes. The Cat, no
+longer able to get at them, perceived that she must tempt them forth by
+some device. For this purpose she jumped upon a peg, and, suspending
+herself from it, pretended to be dead. When the Mice came near she
+pounced among them and killed a great number. Pleased with the success
+of the trick, she tried another. She whitened herself with flour, and
+lay still on the heap of bags, as though she was one of them. The young
+Mice crept dangerously near her, but an old one peeping stealthily out
+said: "Ah, my good madam, though you should turn into a real flour-bag,
+I will not come too near you."
+
+Avoid even appearances of danger.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and his Sons.
+
+
+A Father had a family of sons who were perpetually quarreling among
+themselves. When he failed to heal their disputes by his exhortations,
+he one day told them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they had done
+so, he placed the bundle into the hands of each of them in succession,
+and ordered them to break it in pieces. They each tried with all their
+strength, and were not able to do it. He next unclosed the faggot, and
+took the sticks, separately, one by one, and again put them into their
+hands, on which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in these
+words: "My sons, if you are of one mind, and unite to assist each other,
+you will be as this faggot, uninjured by all attempts of your enemies;
+but if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken as easily
+as these sticks."
+
+Disunited families are easily injured by others.
+
+
+
+
+The Owl and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Owl who was sitting in a hollow tree, dozing away a summer's
+afternoon, was very much disturbed by a rogue of a Grasshopper singing
+in the grass beneath. So far from keeping quiet, or moving away at the
+request of the Owl, the Grasshopper sang all the more, and called her an
+old blinker, that only came out at night when all honest people had gone
+to bed. The Owl waited in silence for a time, and then artfully
+addressed the Grasshopper as follows: "Well, my dear, if one cannot be
+allowed to sleep, it is something to be kept awake by such a pleasant
+voice. And now I think of it, I have a bottle of delicious nectar. If
+you will come up, you shall have a drop." The silly Grasshopper, came
+hopping up to the Owl, who at once caught and killed him, and finished
+her nap in comfort.
+
+Flattery is not a proof of admiration.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Grapes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A famished Fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a
+trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but
+wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At last she
+turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying: "The
+Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."
+
+Revile not things beyond your reach.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass carrying the Image.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden
+Image, to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd as he passed along
+made lowly prostration before the Image. The Ass, thinking that they
+bowed their heads in token of respect for him, bristled up with pride
+and gave himself airs, and refused to move another step. The driver,
+seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his shoulders and
+said: "O you perverse dull-head! it is not yet come to this, that men
+pay worship to an Ass."
+
+They are not wise who take to themselves the credit due to others.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Lap-Dog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty. The Ass was
+left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any
+other Ass would. The Lap-dog was a great favorite with his master, and
+he frisked and jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see. The Ass had
+much work to do, in grinding the corn-mill, and in carrying wood from
+the forest or burdens from the farm. He often lamented his own hard
+fate, and contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the Lap-dog,
+till at last one day he broke his halter, and galloped into his master's
+house, kicking up his heels without measure, and frisking and fawning as
+well as he could. He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen
+the Lap-dog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon
+it to atoms. He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his
+back. The servants hearing the strange hubbub, and perceiving the danger
+of their master, quickly relieved him, and drove out the Ass to his
+stable, with kicks, and clubs, and cuffs. The Ass, beaten nearly to
+death, thus lamented: "I have brought it all on myself! Why could I not
+have been contented to labor with my companions, and not try to live by
+idleness?"
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Eagle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of
+her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fly. An Eagle, hovering
+near, heard her lamentation, and demanded what reward she would give
+him, if he would take her aloft, and float her in the air. "I will give
+you," she said, "all the riches of the Red Sea." "I will teach you to
+fly then," said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons, he carried
+her almost to the clouds,--when suddenly letting her go, she fell on a
+lofty mountain, and dashed her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed
+in the moment of death: "I have deserved my present fate; for what had I
+to do with wings and clouds, who can with difficulty move about on the
+earth?"
+
+If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.
+
+
+
+
+The Porcupine and the Snakes.
+
+
+A Porcupine, wanting to shelter himself, desired a nest of Snakes to
+give him admittance into their cave. They were prevailed upon, and let
+him in accordingly; but were so annoyed with his sharp prickly quills
+that they soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the
+Porcupine to withdraw, and leave them their hole to themselves. "No,"
+says he, "let them quit the place that don't like it; for my part, I am
+well enough satisfied as I am."
+
+Hospitality is a virtue, but should be wisely exercised; we may by
+thoughtlessness entertain foes instead of friends.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox who had Lost his Tail.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, caught in a trap, escaped with the loss of his "brush."
+Henceforth, feeling his life a burden from the shame and ridicule to
+which he was exposed, he schemed to bring all the other Foxes into a
+like condition with himself. He publicly advised them to cut off their
+tails, saying "that they would not only look much better without them,
+but that they would get rid of the weight of the brush." One of them
+said: "If you had not yourself lost your tail, my friend, you would not
+thus counsel us."
+
+Advice prompted by selfishness should not be heeded.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Old Lion.
+
+
+A Lion, worn out with years, lay on the ground at the point of death. A
+Boar rushed upon him, and avenged with a stroke of his tusks a long
+remembered injury. Shortly afterwards the Bull with his horns gored him
+as if he were an enemy. When the Ass saw that the huge beast could be
+assailed with impunity, he let drive at his forehead with his heels.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and
+immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming up, inquired the
+cause of his lameness. The Ass said that he had a thorn in his foot, and
+requested the Wolf to pull it out. The Wolf consenting, the Ass with his
+heels kicked his teeth into his mouth, and galloped away. The Wolf
+said: "I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing,
+when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?"
+
+Every one to his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Groom.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his
+Horse, but at the same time stole his oats, and sold them for his own
+profit. "Alas!" said the Horse, "if you really wish me to be in good
+condition, you should groom me less, and feed me more."
+
+If you wish to do a service, do it right.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and his Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place. The day being
+intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the traveler stopped
+to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
+As this afforded only protection for one, and as the traveler and the
+owner of the Ass both claimed it, a violent dispute arose between them
+as to which of them had the right to it. The owner maintained that he
+had let the Ass only, and not his Shadow. The traveler asserted that he
+had, with the hire of the Ass, hired his Shadow also. The quarrel
+proceeded from words to blows, and while the men fought the Ass galloped
+off.
+
+In quarreling about the shadow we often lose the substance.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Loaded Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling
+the road together. The Ass, ready to faint under his heavy load,
+entreated the Horse to assist him, and lighten his burden, by taking
+some of it upon his back. The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do
+it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway,
+and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden, and laid it
+upon the Horse, together with the skin of the dead Ass.
+
+Laziness often prepares a burden for its own back.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Mules and the Robbers.
+
+
+Two Mules laden with packs were trudging along. One carried panniers
+filled with money, the other sacks of grain. The Mule carrying the
+treasure walked with head erect, and tossed up and down the bells
+fastened to his neck. His companion followed with quiet and easy step.
+All on a sudden Robbers rushed from their hiding-places upon them, and
+in the scuffle with their owners wounded the Mule carrying the treasure,
+which they greedily seized upon, while they took no notice of the grain.
+The Mule which had been wounded bewailed his misfortunes. The other
+replied: "I am glad that I was thought so little of, for I have lost
+nothing, nor am I hurt with any wound."
+
+The conspicuous run the greatest risk.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Three Bulls.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Three Bulls for a long time pastured together. A Lion lay in ambush in
+the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them whilst
+they kept together. Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in
+separating them, he attacked them without fear, as they fed alone, and
+feasted on them one by one at his own leisure.
+
+In union is strength.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog and the Shadow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his
+mouth, saw his own shadow in the water, and took it for another Dog,
+with a piece of meat double his own in size. He therefore let go his
+own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog, to get his larger piece from
+him. He thus lost both--that which he grasped at in the water, because
+it was a shadow and his own, because the stream swept it away.
+
+It is not wise to be too greedy.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Ants and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+The Ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying grain collected in
+the summer time. A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and
+earnestly begged for a little food. The Ants inquired of him: "Why did
+you not treasure up food during the summer?" He replied: "I had not
+leisure; I passed the days in singing." They then said: "If you were
+foolish enough to sing all the summer, you must dance supperless to bed
+in the winter."
+
+Idleness brings want.
+
+
+
+
+The Thirsty Pigeon.
+
+
+A Pigeon, oppressed by excessive thirst, saw a goblet of water painted
+on a sign-board. Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew toward
+it with a loud whirr, and unwittingly dashed against the sign-board and
+jarred herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell
+to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
+
+Zeal should not outrun discretion.
+
+
+
+
+The Flies and the Honey.
+
+
+A Jar of Honey having been upset in a housekeeper's room, a number of
+flies were attracted by its sweetness, and placing their feet in it, ate
+it greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that
+they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were
+suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, "O foolish
+creatures that we are! For the sake of a little pleasure we have
+destroyed ourselves."
+
+
+
+
+The Great and the Little Fishes.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fisherman was drawing up a net which he had cast into the sea, full of
+all sorts of fish. The Little Fish escaped through the meshes of the
+net, and got back into the deep, but the Great Fish were all caught and
+hauled into the ship.
+
+Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolves and the Sheep.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+"Why should there always be this implacable warfare between us?" said
+the Wolves to the Sheep. "Those evil-disposed Dogs have much to answer
+for. They always bark whenever we approach you, and attack us before we
+have done any harm. If you would only dismiss them from your heels,
+there might soon be treaties of peace between us." The sheep, poor
+silly creatures! were easily beguiled, and dismissed the Dogs. The
+Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their pleasure.
+
+Change not friends for foes.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Stork.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and provided nothing but a soup, in
+a wide, shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease; but the Stork, who
+could but just dip in the point of his bill, was not a bit better. A few
+days after, he returned the compliment, and invited the Fox; but
+suffered nothing to be brought to the table but some minced meat in a
+glass jar, the neck of which was so deep and so narrow, that, though the
+Stork with his long bill could eat very well, all that the Fox could do
+was to lick the brims. Reynard was heartily vexed, but owned that he had
+been used as he deserved.
+
+Those who practice cunning must expect to suffer by it.
+
+
+
+
+The Bat and the Weasels.
+
+
+A Bat, falling upon the ground, was caught by a Weasel, of whom he
+earnestly besought his life. The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
+nature the enemy of all birds. The Bat assured him that he was not a
+bird, but a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterward the Bat
+again fell on the ground, and was caught by another Weasel, whom he
+likewise entreated not to eat him. The Weasel said that he had a special
+hostility to mice. The Bat assured him that he was not a mouse, but a
+bat; and thus a second time escaped.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare and the Tortoise.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Hare one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise.
+The latter, laughing, said: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will
+beat you in a race." The Hare, deeming her assertion to be simply
+impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox
+should choose the course, and fix the goal. On the day appointed for the
+race they started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but
+went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course.
+The Hare, trusting to his native swiftness, cared little about the race,
+and lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep. At last waking up, and
+moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal,
+and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
+
+Perseverance is surer than swiftness.
+
+
+
+
+Jupiter and the Monkey.
+
+Jupiter issued a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest, and
+promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be deemed the
+handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest, and presented, with all a
+mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey
+as a candidate for the promised reward. A general laugh saluted her on
+the presentation of her son. She resolutely said: "I know not whether
+Jupiter will allot the prize to my son; but this I do know, that he is
+the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of all who are here."
+
+A mother's love blinds her to many imperfections.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion in Love.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. The Father,
+unwilling to grant and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this
+expedient. He expressed his willingness to accept him as the suitor of
+his daughter on one condition; that he should allow him to extract his
+teeth, and cut off his claws. The Lion cheerfully assented to the
+proposal: when, however, he next repeated his request, the woodman set
+upon him with his club.
+
+
+
+
+The Miser.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Miser had a lump of gold which he buried in the ground, coming to look
+at the spot every day. One day he found that it was stolen, and he began
+to tear his hair and loudly lament. A neighbor, seeing him, said: "Pray
+do not grieve so; bury a stone in the hole, and fancy it is the gold. It
+will serve you just as well, for when the gold was there you made no use
+of it."
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf and the Goat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a steep precipice, where he
+had not a chance of reaching her. He called to her, and earnestly
+besought her to come lower down, lest she should by some mishap get a
+fall; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that
+the herbage was most tender. She replied: "No, my friend, it is not of
+me you are thinking, but of yourself."
+
+Invitations prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted.
+
+
+
+
+The Bald Knight.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Bald Knight, who wore a wig, went out to hunt. A sudden puff of wind
+blew off his hat and wig, at which a loud laugh rang forth from his
+companions. He joined in the joke by saying: "What marvel that hairs
+which are not mine should fly from me, when my own have forsaken even
+the man with whom they were born."
+
+Those who cannot take care of their own, should not be entrusted with
+the care of another's property.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Wood-Cutter.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, running before the hounds, came across a Wood-cutter felling an
+oak, and besought him to show him a safe hiding-place. The Wood-cutter
+advised him to take shelter in his own hut. The Fox crept in, and hid
+himself in a corner. The Huntsman came up, with his hounds, in a few
+minutes, and inquired of the Wood-cutter if he had seen the Fox. He
+declared that he had not seen him, and yet pointed, all the time he was
+speaking, to the hut where the Fox lay hid. The Huntsman took no notice
+of the signs, but, believing his word, hastened forward in the chase. As
+soon as they were well away, the Fox departed without taking any notice
+of the Wood-cutter; whereon he called to him, and reproached him,
+saying: "You ungrateful fellow, you owe your life to me, and yet you
+leave me without a word of thanks." The Fox replied: "Indeed, I should
+have thanked you most fervently, if your deeds had been as good as your
+words."
+
+
+
+
+The Kid and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Kid, mounted on a high rock, bestowed all manner of abuse upon a Wolf
+on the ground below. The Wolf, looking up, replied: "Do not think, vain
+creature, that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as coming not
+from you, but from the place on which you stand."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and a Bear seized upon a kid at the same moment, and fought
+fiercely for its possession. When they had fearfully lacerated each
+other, and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with
+fatigue. A Fox who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw
+them both stretched on the ground, and the Kid lying untouched in the
+middle, ran in between them, and seizing the Kid, scampered off as fast
+as he could. The Lion and the Bear saw him, but not being able to get
+up, said: "Woe betide us, that we should have fought and belabored
+ourselves only to serve the turn of a Fox!"
+
+It sometimes happens that one man has all the toil, and another all the
+profit.
+
+
+
+
+The Stag in the Ox-Stall.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Stag, hardly pressed by the hounds, and blind through fear to the
+danger he was running into, took shelter in a farm-yard, and hid himself
+in a shed among the oxen. An Ox gave him this kindly warning: "O unhappy
+creature! why should you thus, of your own accord, incur destruction,
+and trust yourself in the house of your enemy?" The Stag replied: "Do
+you only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to
+find some favorable opportunity of effecting my escape." At the approach
+of the evening the herdsman came to feed his cattle, but did not see the
+Stag. The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express
+his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly afforded him help in the
+hour of need. One of them again answered him: "We indeed wish you well,
+but the danger is not over. There is one other yet to pass through the
+shed, who has as it were a hundred eyes, and, until he has come and
+gone, your life is still in peril." At that moment the master himself
+entered, and having had to complain that his oxen had not been properly
+fed, he went up to their racks, and cried out: "Why is there such a
+scarcity of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them to lie on.
+Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away." While he thus
+examined everything, he spied the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the
+straw. Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be
+killed.
+
+What is safety for one is not always safety for another.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Jackdaw.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle, flying down from his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a
+lamb, and carried him aloft in his talons. A Jackdaw who witnessed the
+capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy, and determined to emulate
+the strength and flight of the Eagle. He flew round with a great whirr
+of his wings, and settled upon a large sheep, with the intention of
+carrying it off, but his claws becoming entangled in its fleece, he was
+unable to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as
+much as he could. The shepherd, seeing what had happened, ran up and
+caught him. He at once clipped his wings, and, taking him home at night,
+gave him to his children.
+
+We should not permit our ambition to lead us beyond the limits of our
+power.
+
+
+
+
+The Three Tradesmen.
+
+
+A great city was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to
+consider the best means of protecting it from the enemy. A Bricklayer
+present earnestly recommended bricks, as affording the best materials
+for an effectual resistance. A Carpenter, with equal energy, proposed
+timber, as providing a preferable method of defense. Upon which a
+Currier stood up, and said: "Sirs, I differ from you altogether; there
+is no material for resistance equal to a covering of hides; and nothing
+so good as leather."
+
+Every man for his trade.
+
+
+
+
+The Dancing Monkeys.
+
+
+A Prince had some Monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics
+of men's actions, they showed themselves most apt pupils; and when
+arrayed in their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as any of
+the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great applause,
+till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, took from his pocket
+a handful of nuts, and threw them upon the stage. The Monkeys, at the
+sight of the nuts, forgot their dancing, and became (as indeed they
+were) Monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks and tearing
+their robes, they fought with one another for the nuts. The dancing
+spectacle thus came to an end, amidst the laughter and ridicule of the
+audience.
+
+They who assume a character will betray themselves by their actions.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass and the Grasshopper.
+
+
+An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted;
+and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of
+food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices. They replied:
+"The dew." The Ass resolved that he would live only upon dew, and in a
+short time died of hunger.
+
+Where one may live, another may starve.
+
+
+
+
+
+The Ass in the Lion's Skin.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and
+amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in
+his wanderings. At last, meeting a Fox, he tried to frighten him also,
+but the Fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice, than he exclaimed:
+"I might possibly have been frightened myself, if I had not heard your
+bray."
+
+No disguise will hide one's true character.
+
+
+
+
+The Boy Bathing.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Boy bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned. He called out
+to a traveler passing by for help. The traveler, instead of holding out
+a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his
+imprudence. "Oh, sir!" cried the youth, "pray help me now, and scold me
+afterwards."
+
+Counsel, without help, is useless.
+
+
+
+
+The Cock and the Fox.
+
+
+The Fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farm-yard, was caught
+in a springe, which the farmer had planted there for that end. The Cock,
+at a distance, saw what happened, and, hardly yet daring to trust
+himself too near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously, and
+peeped at him. Reynard addressed himself to him, with all the designing
+artifice imaginable. "Dear cousin," says he, "you see what an
+unfortunate accident has befallen me here, and all upon your account:
+for, as I was creeping through yonder hedge, in my way homeward, I heard
+you crow, and was resolved to ask you how you did before I went any
+farther; but I met with this disaster; and therefore now I must ask you
+for a knife to cut this string; or, at least, to conceal my misfortune
+till I have gnawed it asunder." The Cock, seeing how the case stood,
+made no reply, but posted away as fast as he could, and told the farmer,
+who came and killed the Fox.
+
+To aid the vicious is to become a partner in their guilt.
+
+
+
+
+The Viper and the File.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Viper, entering the workshop of a smith, sought from the tools the
+means of satisfying his hunger. He more particularly addressed himself
+to a File, and asked of him the favor of a meal. The File replied: "You
+must indeed be a simple-minded fellow if you expect to get anything from
+me, who am accustomed to take from every one, and never to give anything
+in return."
+
+The covetous are poor givers.
+
+
+
+
+The Oxen and the Axle-Trees.
+
+
+A heavy wagon was being dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen.
+The axle-trees groaned and creaked terribly, when the oxen, turning
+round, thus addressed the wheels: "Hallo there! why do you make so much
+noise? We bear all the labor, and we, not you, ought to cry out."
+
+Those who suffer most cry out the least.
+
+
+
+
+The Bear and the Bee-Hives.
+
+
+A Bear that had found his way into a garden where Bees were kept began
+to turn over the hives and devour the honey. The Bees settled in swarms
+about his head, and stung his eyes and nose so much, that, maddened with
+pain, he tore the skin from his head with his own claws.
+
+
+
+
+The Thrush and the Swallow.
+
+
+A young Thrush, who lived in an orchard once became acquainted with a
+Swallow. A friendship sprang up between them; and the Swallow, after
+skimming the orchard and the neighboring meadow, would every now and
+then come and visit the Thrush. The Thrush, hopping from branch to
+branch, would welcome him with his most cheerful note. "O mother!" said
+he to his parent one day, "never had creature such a friend as I have in
+this same Swallow."--"Nor ever any mother," replied the parent-bird,
+"such a silly son as I have in this same Thrush. Long before the
+approach of winter, your friend will have left you; and while you sit
+shivering on a leafless bough he will be sporting under sunny skies
+hundreds of miles away."
+
+
+
+
+The Sensible Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Fellow, in time of war, was allowing his Ass to feed in a green
+meadow, when he was alarmed by a sudden advance of the enemy. He tried
+every means in his power to urge the Ass to fly, but in vain. "The
+enemy are upon us!" said he. "And what will the enemy do?" asked the
+Ass. "Will they put two pairs of panniers on my back, instead of
+one?"--"No," answered the Man; "there is no fear of that."--"Why, then,"
+replied the Ass, "I'll not stir an inch. I am born to be a slave; and my
+greatest enemy is he who gives me most to carry."
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.
+By-and-by they came to a cave, where wild goats abode. The Lion took up
+his station at the mouth of the cave, and the Ass, going within, kicked
+and brayed, and made a mighty fuss to frighten them out. When the Lion
+had caught them, the Ass came out and asked him if he had not made a
+noble fight. "Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would
+have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Ape.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Upon the decease of the Lion, the beasts of the forest assembled to
+choose another king. The Ape played so many grimaces, gambols, and antic
+tricks, that he was elected by a large majority; and the crown was
+placed upon his head. The Fox, envious of this distinction, seeing, soon
+after, a trap baited with a piece of meat, approached the new king, and
+said with mock humility: "May it please your majesty, I have found on
+your domain a treasure, to which, if you will deign to accompany me, I
+will conduct you." The Ape thereupon set off with the Fox, and, on
+arriving at the spot, laid his paw upon the meat. Snap! went the trap,
+and caught him by the fingers. Mad with the shame and the pain, he
+reproached the Fox for a false thief and a traitor. Reynard laughed
+heartily, and said, with a sneer: "You a king, and not understand a
+trap!"
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Wolf.
+
+
+A Wolf, roaming by the mountain's side, saw his own shadow, as the sun
+was setting, become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to
+himself: "Why should I, being of such an immense size, and extending
+nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? Ought I not to be
+acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?" While he was
+indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him, and killed him.
+He exclaimed with a too-late repentance, "Wretched me! this
+over-estimation of myself is the cause of my destruction."
+
+It is not wise, to hold too exalted an opinion of one's self.
+
+
+
+
+The Miller, his Son and their Ass.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A miller and his Son were driving their Ass to a fair. On the way, they
+met a troop of girls. "Look there!" cried one of them, "did you ever see
+such fools, to be trudging along on foot when they might be riding?"
+The old Man, hearing this, quietly bade his Son get on the Ass, and
+walked along merrily by his side.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Presently they came to a group of old men in earnest debate. "There!"
+said one of them, "it proves what I was saying. What respect is shown to
+old age in these days? Do you see that idle young rogue riding, while
+his old father has to walk?--Get down, you scapegrace! and let the old
+Man rest his weary limbs." Upon this the Father made his Son dismount,
+and got up himself. In this manner they had not proceeded far when they
+met a company of women and children. "Why, you lazy old fellow!" cried
+several tongues at once, "how can you ride upon the beast, while that
+poor little lad there can hardly keep pace by the side of you." The
+good-natured Miller immediately took up his Son behind him. They had now
+almost reached the town. "Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is
+that Ass your own?" "Yes," says the old Man. "Oh! One would not have
+thought so by the way you load him. Why, you two fellows are better
+able to carry the poor beast than he you!" "Anything to please you,"
+said the old Man. So, alighting with his Son, they tied the Ass's legs
+together, and by the help of a pole endeavored to carry him on their
+shoulders over a bridge. The people ran out in crowds to laugh at the
+sight; till the Ass, not liking the noise nor his situation, kicked
+asunder the cords and, tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. Upon
+this the old Man made the best of his way home with his Son--convinced
+that, by endeavoring to please every-body, he had succeeded in pleasing
+nobody, and lost his Ass into the bargain.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Travelers and the Plane-Tree.
+
+
+Two Travelers, worn out by the heat of the summer's sun, laid themselves
+down at noon under the wide-spreading branches of a Plane-tree. As they
+rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other: "What a
+singularly useless tree is the Plane. It bears no fruit, and is not of
+the least service to man." The Plane-tree interrupting him said: "You
+ungrateful fellows! Do you, while receiving benefits from me, and
+resting under my shade, dare to describe me as useless, and
+unprofitable?"
+
+Some men despise their best blessings because they come without cost.
+
+
+
+
+The Tortoise and the Two Ducks.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Tortoise, becoming tired of her humble home, resolved to visit foreign
+lands, but she did not know which way to go. She repaired to two Ducks
+to show her the road, and they told her that the best way to travel was
+through the air. On her imploring their help, they made her grasp a
+stick with her mouth, and so they bore her aloft. As they flew along,
+the gaping people beneath shouted at sight of the spectacle. The vain
+Tortoise mistook their shouts for applause. "I am surely a queen," said
+she. But, alas! as she opened her mouth to speak she lost her hold of
+the stick, and, falling to the ground, was dashed to pieces.
+
+Those who are not able to roam should stay at home.
+
+
+
+
+The Countryman and the Snake.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Villager found a Snake under a hedge, almost dead with cold. He could
+not help having a compassion for the poor creature, so he brought it
+home, and laid it upon the hearth near the fire; but it had not lain
+there long, before (being revived with the heat) it began to erect
+itself, and fly at his wife and children. The Countryman, hearing an
+outcry, and perceiving what the matter was, caught up a mattock, and
+soon dispatched him, upbraiding him at the same time in these words: "Is
+this, vile wretch, the reward you make to him that saved your life?"
+
+Kindness to the ungrateful and the vicious is thrown away.
+
+
+
+
+The Madman who Sold Wisdom.
+
+
+A Madman once set himself up in the market place, and with loud cries
+announced that he would sell Wisdom. The people at once crowded about
+him, and some gave him gold for his wares, but they each got only a blow
+on the ear and a bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their
+companions. One of them, however, took it more seriously than the
+others, and asked a wise sage what it meant. "It means," said the sage,
+"that if one would not be hurt by a Madman, he must put a bunch of
+thread over his ears." So the Madman was really selling Wisdom.
+
+
+
+
+The Leopard and the Fox.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Leopard, being no longer able, by reason of old age, to pursue his
+prey, feigned illness, and gave out that he would confer great favors
+upon any animal that would cure him. A cunning Fox heard of the
+proclamation, and lost no time in visiting the Leopard, first making
+himself look as much like a physician as he could. On seeing him, the
+Leopard declared that such a distinguished looking animal could not
+fail to cure him. This so flattered the Fox that he came near, and at
+once fell a victim to his vanity, being unable to flee because of the
+disguise, which fettered his limbs.
+
+Flattery is a dangerous weapon in the hands of an enemy.
+
+
+
+
+The Hare afraid of his Ears.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Lion, being badly hurt by the horns of a goat, swore in a great rage
+that every animal with horns should be banished from his kingdom. A
+silly Hare, seeing the shadow of his ears, was in great fear lest they
+should be taken for horns, and scampered away.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Crane.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked a Crane that passed by,
+ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage, and saying: "I am robed like a
+king, in gold and purple, and all the colors of the rainbow; while you
+have not a bit of color on your wings." "True," replied the Crane, "but
+I soar to the heights of heaven, and lift up my voice to the stars,
+while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."
+
+Fine feathers don't make fine birds.
+
+
+
+
+The Mouse and the Weasel.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A little starveling Mouse had made his way with some difficulty into a
+basket of corn, where, finding the entertainment so good, he stuffed and
+crammed himself to such an extent, that when he would have got out again
+he found the hole was too small to allow his puffed-up body to pass. As
+he sat at the hole groaning over his fate, a Weasel, who was brought to
+the spot by his cries, thus addressed him: "Stop there, my friend, and
+fast till you are thin; for you will never come out till you reduce
+yourself to the same condition as when you entered."
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Tiger.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A skillful archer, coming into the woods, directed his arrows so
+successfully that he slew many wild beasts, and pursued several others.
+This put the whole savage kind into a fearful consternation, and made
+them fly to the most retired thickets for refuge. At last, the Tiger
+resumed courage, and, bidding them not be afraid, said that he alone
+would engage the enemy; telling them they might depend upon his valor
+and strength to revenge their wrongs. In the midst of these threats,
+while he was lashing himself with his tail, and tearing up the ground
+for anger, an arrow pierced his ribs, and hung by its barbed point in
+his side. He set up an hideous and loud roar, occasioned by the anguish
+which he felt, and endeavored to draw out the painful dart with his
+teeth; when the Fox, approaching him, inquired with an air of surprise
+who it was that could have strength and courage enough to wound so
+mighty and valorous a beast! "Ah!" says the Tiger, "I was mistaken in my
+reckoning: it was that invincible man yonder."
+
+There is always some vulnerable point in the strongest armor.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Turkeys.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox spied some turkeys roosting in a tree. He managed to attract
+their attention and then ran about the tree, pretended to climb, walked
+on his hind legs, and did all sorts of tricks. Filled with fear, the
+Turkeys watched every one of his movements until they became dizzy, and,
+one by one, fell from their safe perch.
+
+By too much attention to danger, we may fall victims to it.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle, the Cat, and the Wild Sow.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Eagle had made her nest at the top of a lofty oak. A Cat, having
+found a convenient hole, lived with her kittens in the middle of the
+trunk; and a Wild Sow with her young had taken shelter in a hollow at
+its foot. The Cat resolved to destroy by her arts this chance-made
+colony. She climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said: "Destruction is
+preparing for you, and for me too. The Wild Sow, whom you may see daily
+digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the oak, that she may, on its
+fall, seize our families as food." Then she crept down to the cave of
+the Sow and said: "Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you
+shall go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to
+pounce upon one of your little pigs." When night came, she went forth
+with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens; but,
+feigning to be afraid, she kept a look-out all through the day.
+Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the
+branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out
+from her cave; and thus they each, with their families, perished from
+hunger.
+
+Those who stir up enmities are not to be trusted.
+
+
+
+
+The Peacock and the Magpie.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Birds once met together to choose a king; and, among others, the
+Peacock was a candidate. Spreading his showy tail, and stalking up and
+down with affected grandeur, he caught the eyes of the silly multitude
+by his brilliant appearance, and was elected with acclamation. The
+Magpie then stepped forth into the midst of the assembly, and thus
+addressed the new king: "May it please your majesty, elect to permit a
+humble admirer to propose a question. As our king, we put our lives and
+fortunes in your hands. If, therefore, the Eagle, the Vulture, and the
+Kite, should make a descent upon us, what means would you take for our
+defense?" This pithy question opened the eyes of the Birds to the
+weakness of their choice and they canceled the election.
+
+
+
+
+The Two Goats.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Goats started at the same moment, from opposite ends, to cross a
+rude bridge that was only wide enough for one to cross at a time.
+Meeting at the middle of the bridge, neither would give way to the
+other. They locked horns and fought for the right of way, until they
+both fell into the torrent below and were drowned.
+
+
+
+
+The Dove and the Ant.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being
+carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of being
+drowned. A Dove, sitting on a tree overhanging the water, plucked a
+leaf, and let it fall into the stream close to her. The Ant, climbing on
+to it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a bird catcher
+came close and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the
+Dove, which sat in the branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung
+him in the foot. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and thereupon made
+the Dove take wing.
+
+The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.
+
+
+
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+The Eagle and the Beetle were at enmity together, and they destroyed one
+another's nests. The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon
+and in eating the young ones of the Beetle. The Beetle got by stealth at
+the Eagle's eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the
+Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter. On the Eagle making his
+complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while
+Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and
+Jupiter, rising up unawares to drive him away from his head, threw down
+the eggs, and broke them.
+
+The weak often revenge themselves on those who use them ill, even though
+they be the more powerful.
+
+
+
+
+The Mule.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Mule, frolicsome from want of work and from overmuch corn, galloped
+about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself: "My father
+surely was a high-mettled racer, and I am his own child in speed and
+spirit." On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very
+weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake;
+my father, after all, could have been only an ass."
+
+
+
+
+The Cat, the Weasel and the Rabbit.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+While a Rabbit was absent from his hole one day, a Weasel took
+possession of it. On the Rabbit's return, seeing the Weasel's nose
+sticking out, he said: "You must leave this hole immediately. There is
+only room for one, and it has always belonged to me and my fathers
+before me." "The more reason that you should give it up now," said the
+Weasel, "and leave its possession to me." As they could not settle the
+dispute, they agreed to leave the question of ownership to a wise old
+Cat, to whom they went without more ado. "I am deaf," said the Cat. "Put
+your noses close to my ears." No sooner had they done so, than she
+clapped a paw upon each of them, and killed them both.
+
+The strong are apt to settle all questions by the rule of might.
+
+[Illustration]
+
+
+
+
+The Rat and the Frog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Rat in an evil day made acquaintance with a Frog, and they set off on
+their travels together. The Frog, on pretense of great affection, and of
+keeping his companion out of harm's way, tied the Rat's foot to his own
+hind-leg, and thus they proceeded for some distance by land. Presently
+they came to some water, and the Frog, bidding the Rat have good
+courage, began to swim across. They had scarcely, however, arrived
+midway, when the Frog took a sudden plunge to the bottom, dragging the
+unfortunate Rat after him. But the struggling and floundering of the Rat
+made so great a commotion in the water that it attracted the attention
+of a Kite, who, pouncing down and bearing off the Rat, carried away the
+Frog at the same time in his train.
+
+Inconsiderate and ill-matched alliances generally end in ruin; and the
+man who compasses the destruction of his neighbor, is often caught in
+his own snare.
+
+
+
+
+The Widow and the Sheep.
+
+
+There was a certain Widow who had an only Sheep, and, wishing to make
+the most of his wool, she sheared him so closely that she cut his skin
+as well as his fleece. The Sheep, smarting under this treatment, cried
+out: "Why do you torture me thus? What will my blood add to the weight
+of the wool? If you want my flesh, Dame, send for the Butcher, who will
+put me out of my misery at once; but if you want my fleece, send for the
+Shearer, who will clip my wool without drawing my blood."
+
+Economy may be carried too far.
+
+
+
+
+The Man Bitten by a Dog.
+
+
+A Man who had been bitten by a Dog was going about asking who could cure
+him. One that met him said: "Sir, if you would be cured, take a bit of
+bread and dip it in the blood of the wound, and give it to the dog that
+bit you." The Man smiled, and said: "If I were to follow your advice, I
+should be bitten by all the dogs in the city."
+
+He who proclaims himself ready to buy up his enemies will never want a
+supply of them.
+
+
+
+
+The Horse and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Wolf saw a Horse grazing in a field. Putting on a grave air, he
+approached him and said: "Sir, you must be very ill; I have some skill
+as a physician, and if you will tell me where your ailment is, I shall
+be glad to be of service." Said the horse: "If you will examine my foot,
+you will find what ails me." But as the wily Wolf approached him, with a
+kick he sent him flying into the air.
+
+
+
+
+The Goatherd and the Goats.
+
+
+It was a stormy day, and the snow was falling fast, when a Goatherd
+drove his Goats, all white with snow, into a desert cave for shelter.
+There he found that a herd of Wild Goats, more numerous and larger than
+his own, had already taken possession. So, thinking to secure them all,
+he left his own Goats to take care of themselves, and threw the branches
+which he had brought for them to the Wild Goats to browse on. But when
+the weather cleared up, he found his own Goats had perished from hunger,
+while the Wild Goats were off and away to the hills and woods. So the
+Goatherd returned a laughing-stock to his neighbors, having failed to
+gain the Wild Goats, and having lost his own.
+
+They who neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones, are rightly
+served if they lose both.
+
+
+
+
+The Goose with the Golden Eggs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain man had the good fortune to possess a Goose that laid him a
+Golden Egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and
+thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the Goose, and
+cutting her open, found her--just what any other goose would be!
+
+Much wants more, and loses all.
+
+
+
+
+The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+An Old Woman found an empty jar which had lately been full of prime old
+wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of its former
+contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose, and drawing
+it backwards and forwards, said: "O most delicious! How nice must the
+Wine itself have been when it leaves behind in the very vessel which
+contained it so sweet a perfume!"
+
+The memory of a good deed lives.
+
+
+
+
+The Ass Carrying Salt.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had
+cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some. Having
+loaded the beast as much as he could bear, he was driving him home,
+when, as they were passing a slippery ledge of rock, the Ass fell into
+the stream below, and the Salt being melted, the Ass was relieved of his
+burden, and having gained the bank with ease, pursued his journey
+onward, light in body and in spirit. The Huckster soon afterwards set
+off for the sea-shore for some more Salt, and loaded the Ass, if
+possible, yet more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed
+the stream into which he had formerly fallen, the Ass fell down on
+purpose, and by the dissolving of the Salt, was again released from his
+load. The Master, provoked at the loss, and thinking how he might cure
+him of this trick, on his next journey to the coast freighted the beast
+with a load of sponges. When they arrived at the same stream as before,
+the Ass was at his old tricks again, and rolled himself into the water;
+but he found to his cost, as he proceeded homewards, that instead of
+lightening his burden, he had more than doubled its weight.
+
+The same measures will not suit all circumstances.
+
+
+
+
+The Gnat and the Bull.
+
+
+A Gnat that had been buzzing about the head of a Bull, at length
+settling himself down upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding
+him; "but if," says he, "my weight at all inconveniences you, pray say
+so, and I will be off in a moment." "Oh, never trouble your head about
+that," says the Bull, "for 'tis all one to me whether you go or stay;
+and, to say the truth, I did not know you were there."
+
+The smaller the Mind the greater the Conceit.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion and the Gnat.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As a Gnat was buzzing around a Lion, the Lion said to him: "How dare you
+approach so near? Be off, or I will kill you with the least stroke of
+my paw." The Gnat, knowing the advantage of his small size, and his
+alertness, immediately challenged the boaster to combat, and alighting
+first upon his nose and then upon his tail, made the Lion so furious
+that he injured himself grievously with his paws. As the Gnat flew away
+he boasted of his own prowess in thus defeating the King of Beasts
+without the slightest injury to himself. But, in his carelessness, he
+flew directly into a spider's web, and the spider instantly seized and
+killed him.
+
+
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox Hunting.
+
+
+The Lion, the Ass and the Fox formed a party to go out hunting. They
+took a large booty, and when the sport was ended, bethought themselves
+of having a hearty meal. The Lion bade the Ass allot the spoil. So,
+dividing it into three equal parts, the Ass begged his friends to make
+their choice; at which the Lion, in great indignation, fell upon the Ass
+and tore him to pieces. He then bade the Fox make a division; who,
+gathering the whole into one great heap, reserved but the smallest mite
+for himself. "Ah! friend," says the Lion, "who taught you to make so
+equitable a division?" "I wanted no other lesson," replied the Fox,
+"than the Ass's fate."
+
+Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
+
+
+
+
+The Dog Whose Ears were Cropped.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Dog complained of the cruelty of her master in cutting off her ears,
+and was so ashamed of her appearance that she resolved to stay in her
+kennel with her family. A friendly hunting dog said to her: "If you had
+been peaceful, and not always fighting, you would have saved your ears
+and your good looks. If you will fight, it is a kindness to crop your
+ears, that they may not give your enemy the advantage."
+
+
+
+
+The Wind and the Sun.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A dispute once arose between the Wind and the Sun, which was the
+stronger of the two, and they agreed to settle the point upon this
+issue--that whichever of the two soonest made a traveler take off his
+cloak, should be accounted the more powerful. The Wind began, and blew
+with all his might and main a blast, cold and fierce as a Thracian
+storm; but the stronger he blew, the closer the traveler wrapped his
+cloak around him, and the tighter he grasped it with his hands. Then
+broke out the Sun. With his welcome beams he dispersed the vapor and the
+cold; the traveler felt the genial warmth, and as the Sun shone brighter
+and brighter, he sat down, quite overcome with the heat, and taking off
+his cloak, cast it on the ground.
+
+Thus the Sun was declared the conqueror; and it has ever been deemed
+that persuasion is better than force; and that the sunshine of a kind
+and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor man's heart than all the
+threatenings and force of blustering authority.
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Boar and the Fox.
+
+
+A Wild Boar was whetting his tusks against a tree, when a Fox coming by,
+asked why he did so; "for," said he, "I see no reason for it; there is
+neither hunter nor hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can see,
+at hand." "True," replied the Boar; "but when that danger does arise, I
+shall have something else to do than to sharpen my weapons."
+
+It is too late to whet the sword when the trumpet sounds to draw it.
+
+
+
+
+The Hunter and the Wolf.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A greedy Hunter one day shot a fine Deer, and ere he could dress it, a
+pretty Fawn came that way, and an arrow brought it to the ground. A Boar
+now chanced to be passing, and the Hunter wounded it so that it lay upon
+the ground as if dead. Not satisfied with this game, he must needs
+pursue a Partridge that came fluttering near, and while he was doing so
+the wounded Boar regained enough strength to spring upon him and kill
+him. A Wolf came that way, and seeing the four dead bodies, said: "Here
+is food for a month; but I will save the best, and be content to-day
+with the bow-string." But when he seized the string it loosened the
+fixed arrow, which shot him through the heart.
+
+The greedy man and the miser cannot enjoy their gains.
+
+
+
+
+The Astronomer.
+
+
+An Astronomer used to walk out every night to gaze upon the stars. It
+happened one night that, with his whole thoughts rapt up in the skies,
+he fell into a well. One who heard his cries ran up to him, and said:
+"While you are trying to pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook
+the common objects under your feet."
+
+We should never look so high as to miss seeing the things that are
+around us.
+
+
+
+
+The Bulls and the Frogs.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Bulls lived in the same herd, and each aspiring to be the leader and
+master, they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old Frog, who sat on
+the bank of a stream near by, began to groan and to quake with fear. A
+thoughtless young Frog said to the old one: "Why need you be afraid?
+What is it to you that the Bulls fight for supremacy?" "Do you not see,"
+said the old Frog, "that one must defeat the other, and that the
+defeated Bull, being driven from the field, will be forced to stay in
+the marshes, and will thus trample us to death?"
+
+The poor and weak are often made to suffer for the follies of the
+great.
+
+
+
+
+The Thief and His Mother.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Schoolboy stole a horn-book from one of his schoolfellows, and brought
+it home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, she rather encouraged
+him in the deed. In course of time the boy, now grown into a man, began
+to steal things of greater value, until, at last, being caught in the
+very act, he was brought to the Judge and sentenced to be hung. As he
+was being led to the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the ground
+with grief. A neighbor seeing her thus, said to her: "It is too late for
+you to moan and sob now. If you had been as much grieved when he
+committed his first theft, you would have corrected him in time, and
+thus have saved yourself this sorrowful day."
+
+Nip evil in the bud.
+
+
+
+
+The Man and His Two Wives.
+
+
+In days when a man was allowed more wives than one, a middle-aged
+bachelor, who could be called neither young nor old, and whose hair was
+only just beginning to turn gray, must needs fall in love with two women
+at once, and marry them both. The one was young and blooming, and wished
+her husband to appear as youthful as herself; the other was somewhat
+more advanced in age, and was as anxious that her husband should appear
+a suitable match for her. So, while the young one seized every
+opportunity of pulling out the good man's gray hairs, the old one was
+as industrious in plucking out every black hair she could find, till he
+found that, between the one and the other, he had not a hair left.
+
+He that submits his principles to the influence and caprices of opposite
+parties will end in having no principles at all.
+
+
+
+
+The Heifer, the Goat, the Sheep and the Lion.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Heifer, a Goat, a Sheep, and a Lion formed a partnership, and agreed
+to divide their earnings. The Goat having snared a stag, they sent for
+the Lion to divide it for them. The Lion said: "I will make four
+parts--the first shall be mine as judge; the second, because I am
+strongest; the third, because I am bravest; and the fourth--I will kill
+any one who dares touch it."
+
+He who will steal a part will steal the whole.
+
+
+
+
+The Camel and the Travelers.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+Two Travelers on a desert saw a Camel in the distance, and were greatly
+frightened at his huge appearance, thinking it to be some huge monster.
+While they hid behind some low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they
+discovered that it was only a harmless Camel which had excited their
+fears.
+
+Distance exaggerates dangers.
+
+
+
+
+The Swan and the Goose.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A certain rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. He fed the
+one for his table, and kept the other for the sake of its song. When the
+time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to take him at night,
+when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the
+other, and he caught the Swan instead of the Goose. The Swan, threatened
+with death, burst forth into song, and thus made himself known by his
+voice, and preserved his life by his melody.
+
+Sweet words may deliver us from peril, when harsh words would fail.
+
+
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Sprat.
+
+
+The Dolphins and the Whales were at war with one another, and the Sprat
+stepped in and endeavored to separate them. But one of the Dolphins
+cried out: "We would rather perish in the contest, than be reconciled by
+you."
+
+
+
+
+The Shepherd and the Sea.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Shepherd moved down his flock to feed near the shore, and beholding
+the Sea lying in a smooth calm, he was seized with a strong desire to
+sail over it. So he sold all his sheep and bought a cargo of Dates, and
+loaded a vessel, and set sail. He had not gone far when a storm arose;
+his ship was wrecked, and his Dates and everything lost, and he himself
+with difficulty escaped to land. Not long after, when the Sea was again
+calm, and one of his friends came up to him and was admiring its repose,
+he said: "Have a care, my good fellow, of that smooth surface, it is
+only looking out for your Dates."
+
+
+
+
+The Bees, the Drones, and the Wasp.
+
+
+Some Bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of an oak. The Drones
+asserted that it was their doing, and belonged to them. The cause was
+brought into court before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the parties,
+he thus addressed them: "The plaintiffs and defendants are so much alike
+in shape and color as to render the ownership a doubtful matter. Let
+each party take a hive to itself, and build up a new comb, that from the
+shape of the cells and the taste of the honey, the lawful proprietors of
+the property in dispute may appear." The Bees readily assented to the
+Wasp's plan. The Drones declined it. Whereupon the Wasp gave judgment:
+"It is clear now who made the comb, and who cannot make it; the Court
+adjudges the honey to the Bees."
+
+Professions are best tested by deeds.
+
+
+
+
+The Wolf, the Goat and the Kid.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+As an old Goat was going forth to pasture, she carefully latched her
+door, and bid her kid not to open it to any one who could not give this
+pass-word: "Beware of the Wolf and all his race." A Wolf happened to be
+passing, and overheard what the old Goat said. When she was gone, he
+went to the door, and, knocking, said: "Beware of the Wolf and all his
+race." But the Kid, peeping through a crack, said: "Show me a white paw
+and I will open the door." As the Wolf could not do this, he had to
+depart, no better than he came.
+
+Two sureties are better than one.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Hedgehog.
+
+
+[Illustration]
+
+A Fox, while crossing over a river, was driven by the stream into a
+narrow gorge, and lay there for a long time unable to get out, covered
+with myriads of horse-flies that had fastened themselves upon him. A
+Hedgehog, who was wandering in that direction, saw him, and taking
+compassion on him, asked him if he should drive away the flies that were
+so tormenting him. But the Fox begged him to do nothing of the sort.
+"Why not?" asked the Hedgehog. "Because," replied the Fox, "these flies
+that are upon me now are already full, and draw but little blood, but
+should you remove them, a swarm of fresh and hungry ones will come, who
+will not leave a drop of blood in my body."
+
+When we throw off rulers or dependents, who have already made the most
+of us, we do but, for the most part, lay ourselves open to others, who
+will make us bleed yet more freely.
+
+
+
+
+The Brazier and His Dog.
+
+
+A Brazier had a little Dog, which was a great favorite with his master,
+and his constant companion. While he hammered away at his metals the Dog
+slept; but when, on the other hand, he went to dinner, and began to eat,
+the Dog woke up, and wagged his tail, as if he would ask for a share of
+his meal. His master one day, pretending to be angry, and shaking his
+stick at him, said: "You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to
+you? While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat, and when I
+begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food. Do
+you not know that labor is the source of every blessing, and that none
+but those who work are entitled to eat?"
+
+
+
+
+The Wild Ass and the Lion.
+
+
+A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture
+the beasts of the forest with the greater ease. The Lion agreed to
+assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the
+benefit of his greater speed. When they had taken as many beasts as
+their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey,
+and for this purpose divided it into three shares. "I will take the
+first share," he said, "because I am king; and the second share, as a
+partner with you in the chase; and the third share (believe me) will be
+a source of great evil to you, unless you willingly resign it to me, and
+set off as fast as you can."
+
+Might makes right.
+
+
+
+
+The Father and His Two Daughters.
+
+
+A man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to
+a tile-maker. After a time he went to the daughter who had married the
+gardener, and inquired how she was, and how all things went with her.
+She said: "All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish,
+that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be
+well watered." Not long after he went to the daughter who had married
+the tile-maker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied:
+"I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may
+continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be
+dried." He said to her: "If your sister wishes for rain, and you for dry
+weather, with which of the two am I to join my wishes?"
+
+
+
+
+The Fir Tree and the Bramble.
+
+
+A Fir Tree said boastingly to the Bramble: "You are useful for nothing
+at all, while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses." The Bramble
+made answer: "You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes
+and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish
+that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir Tree."
+
+Better poverty without care, than riches with.
+
+
+
+
+The Fox and the Monkey.
+
+
+A Monkey once danced in an assembly of the Beasts, and so pleased them
+all by his performance that they elected him their king. A Fox envying
+him the honor, discovered a piece of meat lying in a trap, and leading
+the Monkey to the place where it was, said "that she had found a store,
+but had not used it, but had kept it for him as treasure trove of his
+kingdom, and counseled him to lay hold of it." The Monkey approached
+carelessly, and was caught in the trap; and on his accusing the Fox of
+purposely leading him into the snare, she replied: "O Monkey, and are
+you, with such a mind as yours, going to be king over the Beasts?"
+
+
+
+
+The Farmer and His Sons.
+
+
+A Farmer being on the point of death, wished to insure from his sons the
+same attention to his farm as he had himself given it. He called them to
+his bedside, and said: "My sons, there is a great treasure hid in one of
+my vineyards." The sons, after his death, took their spades and
+mattocks, and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They found
+no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by an extraordinary and
+superabundant crop.
+
+
+
+
+The Cat and the Birds.
+
+
+A Cat, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing, dressed
+himself up as a physician, and, taking with him his cane and the
+instruments becoming his profession, went to the aviary, knocked at the
+door, and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they
+were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They
+replied: "We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only
+be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are."
+
+
+
+
+The Stag, the Wolf and the Sheep.
+
+
+A Stag asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the
+Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended,
+excused herself, saying: "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants,
+and to run off, and you, too, can quickly out-strip me in your rapid
+flight. How then shall I be able to find you when the day of payment
+comes?"
+
+Two blacks do not make one white.
+
+
+
+
+The Raven and the Swan.
+
+
+A Raven saw a Swan, and desired to secure for himself a like beauty of
+plumage. Supposing that his splendid white color arose from his washing
+in the water in which he swam, the Raven left the altars in the
+neighborhood of which he picked up his living, and took up his abode in
+the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he
+could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.
+
+Change of habit cannot alter nature.
+
+
+
+
+The Lioness.
+
+
+A controversy prevailed among the beasts of the field, as to which of
+the animals deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number
+of whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence of the
+Lioness, and demanded of her the settlement of the dispute. "And you,"
+they said, "how many sons have you at a birth?" The Lioness laughed at
+them, and said: "Why! I have only one; but that one is altogether a
+thorough-bred Lion."
+
+The value is in the worth, not in the number.
+
+
+
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