purposely placed his head under the wheels, saying, "At least my enemy and I shall perish together....
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conscious of the value of his burden, and tossed up and down the clear-toned bells fastened to his ...
silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote. But when one day he fo...
The Peacock and Juno THE PEACOCK made complaint to Juno that, while the nightingale pleased every ...
after a good day's sport, he always gave the Housedog a large share of his spoil. The Hound, feelin...
Like the other foot obliquely run; Thy firmness makes my circle just, And me to end where I begun....
Aesop's Fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend The Wolf and the Lamb WOLF, meeting with a Lam...
must die in their company." Birds of a feather flock together. The Farmer and the Snake ONE WINTE...
more." The Ass and the Lapdog A MAN had an Ass, and a Maltese Lapdog, a very great beauty. The As...
Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run, The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves o...
because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him hi...
And Lo!--the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from--Oh, make haste! XLIX. Would...
saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. They replied, ...
The luckless Pots he marr'd in making--Pish! He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well." LXXXIX. ...
one of Expostulation, supposed (says a Notice prefixed to the MS.) to have arisen from a Dream, in ...
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