“What! shall I lose them one by one, This stupid coward throng? And never shall the wolf have done? They […]

Going shares with the Snakes, Porcupine Said—“the best of the bargain is mine:” Nor would he back down, When the

A Trumpeter, prisoner made, Hoped his life would be spared when he said He’d no part in the fight, But

Said the Frog, quite puffed up to the eyes, “Was this Bull about me as to size?” “Rather bigger, frog-brother.”

A Mind Reader made a wager that he would be buried alive and remain so for six months, then be

An Assassin being put upon trial in a New England court, his Counsel rose and said: “Your Honour, I move

A golden Egg, one every day, That simpleton’s Goose used to lay; So he killed the poor thing, Swifter fortune

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

A woman who was dissatisfied with her husband loudly petitioned Jove to send her another. The god listened favorably to

An old man and his little boy were once driving an ass to the market-place. “What’s the matter with one

Two Men were traveling in company through a forest, when, all at once, a huge Bear crashed out of the

Once a Cat and a Fox were traveling together. As they went along, picking up provisions on the way—a stray

A Cow sought a mouthful of hay; But a Dog in the manger there lay, And he snapped out “how

A Distinguished Naturalist was travelling in Australia, when he saw a Kangaroo in session and flung a stone at it.

A Man in a Hurry, whose watch was at his lawyer’s, asked a Grave Person the time of day. “I

The Frogs prayed to Jove for a king: “Not a log, but a livelier thing.” Jove sent them a Stork,

An ass, by some means unknown to the writer, having managed to get into a lion’s skin, ran around the

A fox stood under an apple-tree and gazed up earnestly at the globes of yellow lusciousness. “How sad, for the

The King was a man that stood well before the world; his smile was sweet as clover, but his soul

A poor thing the Mouse was, and yet, When the Lion got caught in a net, All his strength was

A light-brain’d tortoise, anciently, Tired of her hole, the world would see. Prone are all such, self-banish’d, to roam— Prone

A Fox that had been caught in a trap, succeeded at last, after much painful tugging, in getting away. But

Said the Frog, quite puffed up to the eyes, “Was this Bull about me as to size?” “Rather bigger, frog-brother.”

The lioness had lost her young; A hunter stole it from the vale; The forests and the mountains rung Responsive

“Get up! let us flee from the Foe,” Said the Man: but the Ass said, “Why so?” “Will they double