Short animal stories, each ending in a plain lesson, gathered from a tradition so old that nobody is quite sure Aesop himself existed. The tortoise, the fox, the ant: two or three fables make a complete bedtime unit, and their brevity suits a small child's attention span better than almost anything else in this library.
Chapters
A long one: read it a chapter a night.
- Introduction
- The Old Woman and the Doctor
- Mercury and the Woodman
- The Goods and the Ills
- The Stag in the Ox-Stall
- The Milkmaid and Her Pail
- The Ass and the Lap-Dog
- The Frogs' Complaint Against the Sun
- The Slave and the Lion
- The Apes and the Two Travellers
- The Ass and His Burdens
- The Fox and the Goat
- The Dog and the Cook
- The Owl and the Birds
- The Swollen Fox
- The Frogs Asking for a King
- Hercules and the Waggoner
- The Rich Man and the Tanner
- The Clown and the Countryman
- The Hound and the Hare
- The Wolf and the Crane
- The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
- The Lion and the Bull
- The Cobbler Turned Doctor
- The Flea and the Ox
- The Man and His Two Sweethearts
- The Wolf and the Boy
- The Thief and the Innkeeper
- The Ass and His Masters
- The Fox and the Grasshopper
- The Shepherd and the Wolf
- The Wolf and the Horse
- The Eagle and the Beetle
- The Weasel and the Man
- The Monkey and the Dolphin
- The Rose and the Amaranth
- The Dogs and the Hides
- The Eagle and the Fox
- The Quack Doctor
- The Fox and the Snake
- Grief and His Due
- The Woman and the Farmer
- The Goatherd and the Wild Goats
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