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 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 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 COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found aprecious stone and exclaimed: "If your owner had found thee, andnot I, he would have...
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 CRAB said to her son, "Why do you walk so one-sided, my child?It is far more becoming to go straight forward." The young Crabreplied: &quo...
A CRAB, forsaking the seashore, chose a neighboring green meadowas its feeding ground. A Fox came across him, and being veryhungry ate him up. Just as...