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 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...
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 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...
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-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...
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...
THE OAKS presented a complaint to Jupiter, saying, "We bear forno purpose the burden of life, as of all the trees that grow weare the most contin...
An old labourer, bent double with age and toil, was gatheringsticks in a forest. At last he grew so tired and hopeless that hethrew down the bundle of...
A LION, worn out with years and powerless from disease, lay onthe ground at the point of death. A Boar rushed upon him, andavenged with a stroke of hi...