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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,...

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...