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A DOG passing over a stream on a plank saw his reflection in the water. "You ugly brute!" he cried; "how dare you look at me in that in...

A TRUTHFUL Man, finding a musical instrument in the road, asked the name of it, and was told that it was a fish-horn. The next time he went fishing he...

A CARTER was driving a waggon loaded with a merchant's goods, when the wheels stuck in a rut. Thereupon he began to pray to Hercules, without othe...

"SEE these valuable golden eggs," said a Man that owned a Goose. "Surely a Goose which can lay such eggs as those must have a gold mine...

A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could not get at her. "Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?&...

JUPITER commanded all the birds to appear before him, so that he might choose the most beautiful to be their king. The ugly jackdaw, collecting all th...

AN Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it. After repeated efforts the...

A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, "Why do you not walk straight forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful." "Why don't you...

THE Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner strip a traveller o...

A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless exp...