The Wind and the Sun were disputing which was stronger. Suddenly they saw a traveller coming down the road, and the Sun said: I see a way to decide our dispute. Whichever of us can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as the s...
A Mouse who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water. The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own. Thus joined togeth...
A middle-aged man, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time. One of them was young, and the other well advanced in years. The elder woman, ashamed to be courted by a man younger than herself, made a point, whenever her ad...
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 when his neighbours came to help him, laughed at them for their pains. The Wolf, however, did truly come at last...
The pigeons, terrified by the appearance of a Kite, called upon the Hawk to defend them. He at once consented. When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite coul...
A man had two dogs: a Hound, trained to assist him in his sports, and a Housedog, taught to watch the house. When he returned home after a good days sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feeling much aggrieved at t...
Two Frogs were neighbours. One inhabited a deep pond, far removed from public view; the other lived in a gully containing little water, and traversed by a country road. The Frog that lived in the pond warned his friend to change his residence and ent...
Two men were journeying together. One of them picked up an axe that lay upon the path, and said, I have found an axe. Nay, my friend, replied the other, do not say I, but We have found an axe. They had not gone far before they saw the owner of the ax...
A Peacock spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, I am robed, like a king, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow; while you have not a bit of color on your wings. T...
A Huntsman, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish. The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the gam...
A Lion, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He returned to his den, and lying down there, pretended to be sick, taking care that his sickness should be publicly known. The beasts e...
