The Talking Beasts_ A Book of Fable Wisdom - Nora Archibald Smith

"Behold the performer that you condemn!" The Old Man, His Son, and the Ass An Old Man and his Little Boy were on ...

with the odour which issued from the Monarch's apartments, be was imprudent enough to hold his nose in hi ...

perfection. Happy creature," continued he, "how much I envy you who have everything which I desire, for phi ...

happen in this present instance to be all in the right, and have only considered the subject under different ...

The Passenger and the Pilot In a violent storm at sea, the whole crew of a vessel was in imminent danger ...

you that I am in so much haste!" A Matter of Arbitration Two Cats, having stolen some cheese, could not ...

the way to do it: Fly up as high as you can, and let the tiresome thing fall upon a rock. It will be ...

many a day before this river has all run by. You will never sell your butter and cheese if you wait ...

way." The Camel did so, and for a time was very well contented. Then, looking around, he said: "If I could ...

Jupiter, one day, enjoying himself over a bowl of nectar, and in a merry humour, determined to make ...

him in the following words: "As you are a stranger, sir, you may perhaps be excused for the indecency of your b ...

THE FABLES OF BIDPAI "In English now they teach us wit. In English now they say: Ye men, come le ...

and has also taken his rest in the nest." When the male Sparrow heard this story, his frame was wrung w ...

but the distress of being without water is impossible to endure, and therefore of necessity we are about to f ...

When they got to a height in the air, they happened to pass over a village, and the inhabitants ...

more to grieve than I, whose maintenance was from hunting frogs? Today an event has occurred which has r ...

In former times there lived an old woman in a state of extreme debility. She possessed a cot more narr ...

The heart of the Neighbour-Cat melted at the speaker's lamentable position, and he resolved that he would ...

set foot in that retreat. He had lived much time in that wild, according to his wish, and had never ...

and the expanse of waste and mountain like a furnace of glass fiercely inflamed. From the excessive heat ...