In pity he brought the poor Snake To be warmed at his fire. A mistake! For the ungrateful thing Wife […]

Said sly Fox to the Crow with the cheese, “Let me hear your sweet voice, now do please!” And this

Once upon a time there came to this earth a visitor from a neighbouring planet. And he was met at

The Geese joined the Cranes in some wheat; All was well, till, disturbed at their treat, Light-winged, the Cranes fled,

A Forestry Commissioner had just felled a giant tree when, seeing an honest man approaching, he dropped his axe and

The weasels live, no more than cats, On terms of friendship with the rats; And, were it not that these

Against a robber fox, a tree Some turkeys served as citadel. That villain, much provoked to see Each standing there

A young and inexperienced mouse Had faith to try a veteran cat,— Raminagrobis, death to rat, And scourge of vermin

Our eyes are not made proof against the fair, Nor hands against the touch of gold. Fidelity is sadly rare,

At a meeting of the Golden League of Mystery a Woman was discovered, writing in a note-book. A member directed

You have heard how Sir Fox treated Crane: With soup in a plate. When again They dined, a long bottle

A Bull Frog, according to rule, Sat a-croak in his usual pool: And he laughed in his heart As a

Through massacres of each other’s citizens China and the United States had been four times plunged into devastating wars, when,

A Robber who had plundered a Merchant of one thousand pieces of gold was taken before the Cadi, who asked

Timid Hares, from the trumpeting wind, Fled as swift as the fear in their mind; Till in fright from their

Safe enough lay the poor hunted Deer In the ox-stall, with nothing to fear From the careless-eyed men: Till the

Twin children: the Girl, she was plain; The Brother was handsome & vain; “Let him brag of his looks,” Father

A Heavy Operator overtaken by a Reverse of Fortune was bewailing his sudden fall from affluence to indigence. “Do not

A Dispenser-Elect of Patronage gave notice through the newspapers that applicants for places would be given none until he should

A fox lost his tail in escaping from a steel trap. When he began to go about again, he found

Through the town this good Man & his Son Strove to ride as to please everyone: Self, Son, or both

When the Horse first took Man on his back, To help him the Stag to attack; How little his dread,

“I never read such an impious book,” said the reader, throwing it on the floor. “You need not hurt me,”

There was once a sick man in a burning house, to whom there entered a fireman. “Do not save me,”

The Gallant Crew at a life-saving station were about to launch their life-boat for a spin along the coast when