Aesop's Fables

AESOP'S FABLES

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ANEW •TRANSLATION BY• V-SVERNON •JONES WITH-AN-INTRODUCTION BYCKCHE5TERTON ANDILLUSTRATIONS BYARTHUBRACKHAM

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 75-24711 This edition is published by Avenel Books, distributed by Crown Publishers, Inc., 225 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003

Manufactured in the United States of America

ISBN: 0-517-171988 z y x w v u CONTENTS

THE FOX AND THE GRAPES THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS THE CAT AND THE MICE THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER THE MICE IN COUNCIL THE BAT AND THE WEASELS THE DOG AND THE SOW THE FOX AND THE CROW THE HORSE AND THE GROOM THE WOLF AND THE LAMB THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE THE CAT AND THE BIRDS THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW THE OLD WOMAN AND THE DOCTOR THE MOON AND HER MOTHER MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION THE LION AND THE MOUSE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

IN COLOUR

T h e H a r e a n d t h e T o r t o i s e Ja c k e t fro n t

T h e M o o n a n d h e r M o t h e r F a cin g page XXX

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32 ״ T h e C r a b a n d h i s M o t h e r

ft T h e Q u a c k F r o g 33

T h e S h i p w r e c k e d M a n a n d t h e S e a F o llo w in g page 96

ft T h e B l a c k a m o o r 96

tf T h e T w o P o t s 96

tf V e n u s a n d t h e C a t 96

T h e T r a v e l l e r s a n d t h e P l a n e - t r e e F a cin g page 160

ft T h e T r e e s a n d t h e A x e 161

ft T h e L i o n , J u p i t e r , a n d t h e E l e p h a n t 192

ft T h e G n a t a n d t h e L i o n 193

IN BLACK AND WHITE PAGE

T h e F o x a n d t h e G r a p e s 1

T h e F o x a n d t h e C r o w 7

T h e C a t a n d t h e B i r d s 11

T h e C r o w a n d t h e P i t c h e r 17

T h e N o r t h W i n d a n d t h e S u n 19 xxvii fed them well they wouldn’t want to leave him. When the weather improved, he took them all out to pasture again ; but no sooner had they got near the hills than the Wild Goats broke away from the flock and scampered off. The Goatherd was very much disgusted at this, and roundly abused them for their ingratitude. “ Rascals! ” he cried, “ to run away like that after the way I’ve treated you ! ” Hearing this, one of them turned round and said, “ Oh, yes, you treated us all right—too well, in fact; it was just that that put us on our guard. If you treat newcomers like ourselves so much better than your own flock, it’s more than likely that, if another lot of strange goats joined yours, we should then be neglected in favour of the last comers.”

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE SWALLOW

A SWALLOW, conversing with a Nightingale, advised her to quit the leafy coverts where she made her home, and to come and live with men, like herself, and nest under the shelter of their roofs. But the Nightingale replied, “ Time was when I too, like yourself, lived among men : but the memory of the cruel wrongs I then suffered makes them hateful to me, and never again will I approach their dwellings.”

The scene of past sufferings revives painful memories. 223