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Thiswork was electronically mastered using Adobe™ Acrobat™ software. The original composition of this work was created using FrameMaker. Illustrations were manipulated using Adobe Photoshop™. The display text isHerculanum. Adobe, the Adobe Press logo, Adobe Acrobat, and Adobe Photoshop aretrade- marksof Adobe Systems Incorporated which may be registered in certain juris- dictions. CONTENTS Copyright H ow to use th i s book Introduction List of fables by title Aesop's Fables Index of titles Index of morals How to create your own glossary and question pages How to print and make your own book Fable questions Click any line to jump to that section . 4 HOW TO VSi THIS BOOK This book contains several sections. • Click the Bookmarks and Page button in the tool bar to display an electronic Table of Contents. Double-click the small page icon to the left of a bookmark name to jump to that page in the book. • List of Fables by Title lists the fables in the order in which they appear in this book. Selecting any title will take you to that fable. Select the title on the first page of the fable to return to the List of Fables by Title. ^H€ FOX AND TH£ CP.O\^ continued . 5 • Index of Titles lists the fable titles alphabetically. Selecting any title will take you to that fable. Click the Go Back button in the tool bar to return to the Index of Titles. • Index of Morals lists the fable morals alphabetically. Selecting any moral will take you to that fable. Select the moral at the end of any fable to return to the Index of Morals. TH6 FOX XND TH6 CR.OW continued . • Fable Questions encourages you to answer and ask new questions about each fable. Select any fable's question mark to go to that fable's question page. To return to the fable, select the arrow at the bottom of the question page. THE FOX AND TH6 CKOW a • How to Create Your Own Glossary and Question Pages tells you how to add and replace questions and glossary items. • How to Print and Make Your Own Book tells you how to create your own paper book. INTRODUCTION "Tut, tut, child" said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it." —Lewis Carroll, A lice's Adventures in Wonderland A fable is a very short story that tells us how to behave or that teaches us a lesson. Usually, but not always, fables are stories about animalsthat talk likepeople. Thelesson that a fable teaches us is called a moral. It's not hard to find themoralsinthefablesinthisbook. They are written in italics (slanted letters) at the bottom of thefables. Aesop is believed to have been a Greek slave who made up these stories to make his life easier. Nobody is really sure if Aesop made up these fables. What is certain, however, is that the stories called Aesop's Fables are so wonderful that they have been told over and over again for thousands of years. Many common sayings come from Aesop's Fables: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch," and "Honesty isthe best policy," and "Look before you leap" are fam i I i ar exam pi es. Whether a Greek slave named Aesop made up these stories or whether many people living at different times made up the stories is not important. What's i mportant is that the stories have survived and are worth re-telling. Adobe Systems is proud to present them in the newest form of story-telling: the Acrobat electronic book. 9 LIST OF FA8LB BY TITLE The Wolf and the Lamb 14 The Frogs Desiring a King 30 The Dog and the Shadow 15 The Mountains in Labor 32 The Lion's Share 16 The Hares and the Frogs 33 The Wolf and the Crane 18 The Wolf and the Kid 34 The Man and the Serpent 20 The Woodman and the Serpent 35 The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse 21 The Bald Man and the Fly 36 The Fox and the Crow 23 The Fox and the Stork 37 The Sick Lion 24 The Fox and the Mask 39 The Ass and the Lapdog 25 Thejay and the Peacock 40 The Lion and the Mouse 27 The Frog and the Ox 41 The Swallow and the Androcles and the Lion 43 Other Birds 29 continued . 10 The Bat, the Birds, The Ant and the and the Beasts 45 Grasshopper 61 The Hart and the Hunter 47 The Tree and the Reed 63 The Serpent and the File 48 The Fox and the Cat 64 The Man and the Wood 49 The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 66 The Dog and the Wolf 50 The Dog in the Manger 67 The Belly and the Members 52 The Man and the Wooden God 68 The Hart in the Ox-Stall 54 The Fisher 69 The Fox and the Grapes 55 The Shepherd's Boy 70 The Horse, Hunter, and Stag 56 The Young Thief and His Mother 72 The Peacock and Hera 58 Th e M an an d His Two W i ves 74 The Fox and the Lion 59 The Nurse and the Wolf 76 The Lion and the Statue 60 continued . I . li The Tortoise and The Laborer and the the Birds 78 Nightingale 92 The Two Crabs 79 The Fox, the Rooster, and the Dog 94 The Ass in the Lion's Skin 80 The Wind and the Sun 96 The Two Fellows and the Bear 81 Hercules and the Wagoneer 97 The Two Pots 83 The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey 98 The Four Oxen and the Lion 84 The Miser and His Gold 100 The Fisher and the The Fox and Little Fish 85 the Mosquitoes 101 Avaricious and Envious 86 The Fox without a Tail 102 The Crow and the Pitcher 87 The One-Eyed Doe 104 The Man and the Satyr 89 Belling the Cat 105 The Goose with the The Hare and the Tortoise 107 Golden Eggs 91 continued . 12 The Old Man and The Cat-Maiden 122 Death 109 The Horse and the Mule 123 The Hare with Many The Trumpeter Taken Friends 110 Prisoner 124 The Lion in Love 112 The Buffoon and the The Bundle of Sticks 114 Countryman 125 The Lion, the Fox, The Old Woman and the and the Beasts 115 Wine-Jar 127 The Mule's Brains 117 The Fox and the Goat 128 The Eagle and the Arrow 119 The Milkmaid and Her Pail 120 13 ASOP'S FABL£S 14 THE WOLF AND TH6 LAMB Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside when, looking up, what should heseebutaLamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. "There's my supper," thought he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he called out to the Lamb, "How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking." "Nay, master, nay," said Lambikin; "if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me." "Wei I, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad n ames th i s ti me I ast year?" "Th at can n ot be, " sai d the Lamb; "I am only six months old." "I don't care," snarled the Wolf, "if it was not you it was your father"; and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb. Any excuse will serve a tyrant. 15 THE DOC AND TH6 SHADOW It happened that a Dog had got a piece of meat and was carrying it home in his mouth to eat it in peace. Now on his way home he had to cross a plank lying across a run- ning brook. As he crossed, he looked down and saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. Thinking it was another dog with another piece of meat, he made up his mind to have that also. So he made a snap at the shadow in the water, but as he opened his mouth the piece of meat fell out, dropped into the water, and was never seen again. Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. 16 THE LION'S 5HXP.6 TheLion once went hunting with theFox, theJackal, and the Wolf. They hunted and they hunted till at last they surprised a Stag, and soon took its life. Then came the question how the spoil should be divided. "Quarter me this Stag," roared the Lion; so the other animals skinned it and cut it into four parts.