A LABOURER lay listening to a Nightingale’s song throughout the summer night...
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The Goose With the Golden Egg
ONE day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yello...
The Man and the Satyr
A MAN had lost his way in a wood one bitter winter’s night...
The Crow and the Pitcher
A CROW, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of w...
Avaricious and Envious
TWO neighbours came before Jupiter and prayed him to grant their hearts’ desire...
The Fisher and the Little Fish
IT happened that a Fisher, after fishing all day, caught only a little fish...
The Four Oxen and the Lion
A LION used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell...
The Two Pots
TWO Pots had been left on the bank of a river, one of brass, and one of earthenw...
The Two Fellows and the Bear
TWO Fellows were travelling together through a wood, when a Bear rushed out upon...
The Ass in the Lion’s Skin
AN ASS once found a Lion’s skin which the hunters had left out in the sun to dry...