A HOUND, who in the days of his youth and strength had neveryielded to any beast of the forest, encountered in his old age aboar in the chase. He seiz...
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 wh...
The shipwrecked Chimpanzee had been clinging for a long time to aslender spar, when a Dolphin came up and offered to carry himashore. This kind propos...
A SHEPHERD driving his Sheep to a wood, saw an oak of unusualsize full of acorns, and spreading his cloak under the branches,he climbed up into the tr...
There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep atthe foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonelyfor him all day, so he thoug...
A SHEPHERD penning his sheep in the fold for the night was aboutto shut up a wolf with them, when his Dog perceiving the wolfsaid, "Master, how c...
A SHEPHERD, keeping watch over his sheep near the shore, saw theSea very calm and smooth, and longed to make a voyage with a viewto commerce. He sold ...
A Serpent in the course of its wanderings came into anarmourer's shop. As he glided over the floor he felt his skinpricked by a file lying there. ...
THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, The He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in d...
A CERTAIN MAN made a wooden image of Mercury and offered it forsale. When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order toattract purchasers, he cried o...