A stag, whose joints had become stiff with old age, was at great pains to get to...
Category Stories
The Hunted Beaver
The stones of the beaver was once thought to be of use in medicine, and the anim...
Death and Cupid
Cupid, one sultry summer’s noon, tired with play and faint with heat, went into ...
The Bald Knight
A certain knight, who wore a wig to conceal his baldness, was out hunting one da...
The Cat and the Mice
A certain house was much infested by mice...
The Bundle of Sticks
An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him to give them some ...
The Sick Lion
A lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto death at the mouth of h...
The Old Man and Death
An old man cut himself a bundle of sticks in a wood and started to carry them ho...
The Swan
The swan is said to sing but once in its life — when it knows that it is about t...
The Wolves, the Sheep, and the Ram
The wolves sent a deputation to the sheep with proposals for a lasting peace bet...