Cupid, one sultry summer’s noon, tired with play and faint with heat, went into ...
Category Short Story
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...
The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog
One winter’s day during a severe storm a horse, an ox, and a dog came and begged...
The Man and His Two Mistresses
A man of middle age, whose hair was turning grey, had two mistresses, an old wom...