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Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances

Some of Æsop's Fables with Modern Instances

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id="pgepubid00025">THE HORSE AND THE STAG


A horse being driven by a man.

THE HORSE AND THE STAG.

There was a Horse who had a meadow all to himself until a Stag came and began to injure the pasture. The Horse, eager to punish the Stag, asked a man whether there was any way of combining to do this. "Certainly," said the Man, "if you don't object to a bridle and to my mounting you with javelins in my hand." The Horse agreed, and was mounted by the Man; but, instead of being revenged on the Stag, he himself became a servant to the Man.

A man, made poor by agricultural distress, selling something to a happy money lender in order to pay his rent.


A child driving a horse with a toy whip.


A cock crowing at sun-up.

THE COCK AND THE JEWEL


A cock stumbles upon a ring.

THE COCK AND THE JEWEL.

A Barn-door Cock while scratching up his dunghill came upon a Jewel. "Oh, why," said he, "should I find this glistening thing? If some jeweller had found it he would have been beside himself with joy at the thought of its value; but to me it is of no manner of use, nor do I care one jot about it; why, I would rather have one grain of barley than all the jewels in the world."

A weary man approaches an inn during a storm. He passes a sign for the inn in which the words 'J.J. Jones Beerseller' have been changed to 'J.J. Jones Bookseller.'


A cock throwing away a ring.


A cock riding an ass.

THE ASS, THE LION, AND THE COCK


An ass chasing a lion out of a shed.

THE ASS, THE LION, AND THE COCK.

An Ass and a Cock were in a shed. A hungry Lion caught sight of the Ass, and was on the point of entering the shed to devour him. But he took fright at the sound of the Cock crowing (for people say that Lions are afraid at the voice of a Cock), and turned away and ran. The Ass, roused to a lofty contempt of him for being afraid of a Cock, went

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