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A YOUNG MAN, a great spendthrift, had run through all hispatrimony and had but one good cloak left. One day he happenedto see a Swallow, which had app...

A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to thedanger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hidhimself in a shed among t...

A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and utteredcries like a child. A Sparrow upbraided her and said, "Where nowis thy remarkable swi...

A STAG overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink. Seeing hisown shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the sizeand variety of his horns...

Having received an order for twenty yards of silk from PrincessLioness, the Silkworm sat down at her loom and worked away withzeal. A Spider soon came...

A SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health,and each one helped him...

A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother! do notmourn, but at once invoke the gods that my life may beprolonged." She replied,...

A Lion had come to the end of his days and lay sick unto deathat the mouth of his cave, gasping for breath. The animals, hissubjects, came round him a...

A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, andafter a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboringflocks. The Wolf, having sh...

A SHIPWRECKED MAN, having been cast upon a certain shore, sleptafter his buffetings with the deep. After a while he awoke, andlooking upon the Sea, lo...