A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among thehens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw."Ho! ho!" quoth h...
A CHARGER, feeling the infirmities of age, was sent to work in amill instead of going out to battle. But when he was compelledto grind instead of serv...
A COBBLER unable to make a living by his trade and made desperateby poverty, began to practice medicine in a town in which he wasnot known. He sold a ...
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. Fearing for their live...
A CHARCOAL-BURNER carried on his trade in his own house. One dayhe met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and livewith him, saying that the...
A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailingdressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bagof instruments becoming ...
A CAT caught a Cock, and pondered how he might find a reasonableexcuse for eating him. He accused him of being a nuisance to menby crowing in the nigh...
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful castand captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a skillfulhandling of his net to reta...
A BOY was hunting for locusts. He had caught a goodly number,when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reachedout his hand to take him. ...
A BOY was stung by a Nettle. He ran home and told his Mother,saying, "Although it hurts me very much, I only touched itgently." "That w...