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...
SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to thesummit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in thedistance what they thought wa...
A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deepgullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him andexclaimed: "You richl...
A Scorpion befriended a Ladybug who became a loyal companionto him. A time came when she struggled to cross a challengingand dangerous river, and so t...
A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know ...
A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His roadhome lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step,fell by accident and ros...
A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and theAmaranth said to her neighbor, "How I envy you your beauty and yoursweet scent!...
A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the samebeautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid whitecolor arose from his washi...
A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh andproclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician,skilled in the use of dr...
A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes ofthe passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, andannounced to him that the door...