英语故事大全

  • The Sick Kite

    2023-11-24

    A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do notmourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may beprolonged." She replied,...

  • The Sick Stag

    2023-11-24

    A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health,and each one helped him...

  • Having received an order for twenty yards of silk from PrincessLioness, the Silkworm sat down at her loom and worked away withzeal. A Spider soon came...

  • A STAG overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink. Seeing hisown shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the sizeand variety of his horns...

  • A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and utteredcries like a child. A Sparrow upbraided her and said, "Where nowis thy remarkable swi...

  • A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to thedanger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hidhimself in a shed among t...

  • A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all hispatrimony and had but one good cloak left. One day he happenedto see a Swallow, which had app...

  • A Fox after crossing a river got its tail entangled in a bush,and could not move. A number of Mosquitoes seeing its plightsettled upon it and enjoyed ...

  • It happened that a Fox caught its tail in a trap, and instruggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump. Atfirst he was ashamed to show him...

  • At one time the Fox and the Stork were on visiting terms andseemed very good friends. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner,and for a joke put nothin...