AN Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it. After repeated efforts the...
JUPITER commanded all the birds to appear before him, so that he might choose the most beautiful to be their king. The ugly jackdaw, collecting all th...
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could not get at her. "Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?&...
"SEE these valuable golden eggs," said a Man that owned a Goose. "Surely a Goose which can lay such eggs as those must have a gold mine...
A CARTER was driving a waggon loaded with a merchant's goods, when the wheels stuck in a rut. Thereupon he began to pray to Hercules, without othe...
A TRUTHFUL Man, finding a musical instrument in the road, asked the name of it, and was told that it was a fish-horn. The next time he went fishing he...
A DOG passing over a stream on a plank saw his reflection in the water. "You ugly brute!" he cried; "how dare you look at me in that in...
HAVING heard that the State was about to be invaded by a hostile army, a War-horse belonging to a Colonel of the Militia offered his services to a pas...
AN Eagle was once captured by a Man, who clipped his wings and put him in the poultry yard, along with the chickens. The Eagle was much depressed in s...
A MAN finding a frozen Viper put it into his bosom. "The coldness of the human heart," he said, with a grin, "will keep the creature in...