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The Seller of Images
2023-11-24A CERTAIN MAN made a wooden image of Mercury and offered it forsale. When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order toattract purchasers, he cried o...
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The Seaside Travelers
2023-11-24SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to thesummit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in thedistance what they thought wa...
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The Seagull and the Kite
2023-11-24A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deepgullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him andexclaimed: "You richl...
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THE SCORPION AND THE LADYBUG
2023-11-24A Scorpion befriended a Ladybug who became a loyal companionto him. A time came when she struggled to cross a challengingand dangerous river, and so t...
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The Scorpion and the Frog
2023-11-24A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How do I know ...
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The Salt Merchant and His Ass
2023-11-24A PEDDLER drove his Ass to the seashore to buy salt. His roadhome lay across a stream into which his Ass, making a false step,fell by accident and ros...
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The Rose and the Amaranth
2023-11-24A Rose and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and theAmaranth said to her neighbor, "How I envy you your beauty and yoursweet scent!...
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The Raven and the Swan
2023-11-24A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the samebeautiful plumage. Supposing that the Swan's splendid whitecolor arose from his washi...
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The Quack Frog
2023-11-24A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh andproclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician,skilled in the use of dr...
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The Prophet
2023-11-24A WIZARD, sitting in the marketplace, was telling the fortunes ofthe passers-by when a person ran up in great haste, andannounced to him that the door...