Fables E-Book

Aesop

• Herausgeber: idb
• Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 26

Beschreibung

A countryman who had lived handsomely in the world upon his honest labour and industry, was desirous his sons should do so after him; and being now upon his deathbed, My dear children, says he, I reckon myself bound to tell you, before I depart, that there is a considerable treasure hid in my vineyard; wherefore, pray be sure to dig, and search narrowly for it when I am gone. The father died, and the sons fell immediately to work upon the vineyard. They turned it up over and over, and not one penny of money was to be found there; but the profit of the next vintage expounded the riddle; for the ground being so well stirred and loosened, it produced a plentiful crop; a treasure indeed!

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Fables

Æsop

ISBN 9783964841193

Contents

Boys and Frogs

No pleasing every body

The Lark and her Young

Cock and Fox

Fox and Grapes

A Father and his Children

The Fox without a Tail

The Bear and two Friends

Father and contentious Children

A Dog and his Shadow

Wolf and Crane

Mouse and Frog

Fox and Crow

Lion and Mouse

Eagle and Tortoise

Ape and her Young

Crow and Pitcher

A Daw in borrowed Feathers

Fir-Tree and Bramble

Body and Limbs

Oak and Willow

Old and Young Crab

PREFACE.

In presenting to the little readers this book of Fables, no wish is entertained to create in them a belief that there ever was a time when beasts and birds could talk. A fable is a feigned narration, designed to convey instruction. The practice of teaching in this way is of very ancient origin, and is continued to this day. Reproof thus administered has often produced the desired effect, when open rebuke would have served only to offend or irritate. Most of these fables are attributed to Æsop, a person whose history is involved in much obscurity. We know but little more of him than that he lived in a remote period of time, and wrote many amusing and instructive fables.

Select Fables.

Boys and Frogs.

A company of mischievous boys were watching at the side of a pond, and whenever any of the frogs put up their heads, the boys would be pelting them with stones. "Children," says one of the frogs, "you should consider, that though this may be sport to you, it is death to us."

APPLICATION.

The cruel practices many children are in, of throwing stones at harmless birds and other creatures, of torturing flies, &c. setting the dogs on cats to worry them, or in any way afflicting any animals for sport, show that their education has not been what it ought to have been; or that they are very unfeeling children, and their morals have become depraved; and this disposition, if lived in as they grow up, will end in brutality and tyranny.

No pleasing every body.