Identifier: aesopsfables00aeso (find matches)
Title: Aesop's fables
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fables
Publisher: London : Heinemann New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE WELL I WO Frogs lived together in a marsh. But oneA hot summer the marsh dried up, and they left,it to look for another place to live in : for frogs like dampplaces if they can get them. By and by they came to adeep well, and one of them looked down into it, andsaid to the other, This looks a nice cool place : let usjump in and settle here. But the other, who had awiser head on his shoulders, replied, Not so fast, myfriend : supposing this well dried up like the marsh, howshould we get out again ? Think twice before you act. THE CRAB AND THE FOX A CRAB once left the sea-shore and went and settled■^^- in a meadow some way mland, which looked verynice and green and seemed likely to be a good place tofeed in. But a hungry Fox came along and spied theCrab and caught him. Just as he was going to beeaten up, the Crab said, This is just what I deserve;for I had no business to leave my natural home by thesea and settle here as though I belonged to the land. Be content with your loto 160
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THE FROGS AND THE WELL X THE FOX AND THE GRASSHOPPER A GRASSHOPPER sat chirping in the branches ofa tree. A Fox heard her, and, thinking what adainty morsel she would make, he tried to get her downby a trick. Standmg below in full view of her, hepraised her song in the most flattering terms, and beggedher to descend, saying he would like to make the acquaint-ance of the owner of so beautiful a voice. But she wasnot to be taken in, and replied, You are very muchmistaken, my dear sir, if you imagine I am going to comedown : I keep well out of the way of you and your kindever since the day when I saw numbers of grasshopperswings strewn about the entrance to a foxs earth. THE FARMER, HIS BOY, AND THE ROOKS A FARMER had just sown a field of wheat, and was^^^ keeping a careful watch over it, for numbers ofRooks and starlings kept continually settling on it andeating up the grain. Along with him went his Boy,carrying a sling : and whenever the Farmer asked forthe sling the starlings understo

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