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+Project Gutenberg's Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, by Jean de La Fontaine
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+Title: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
+       From the French of La Fontaine
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+Author: Jean de La Fontaine
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+Illustrator: John Rae
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+Translator: W.T. (William Trowbridge) Larned
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+Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24108]
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+Language: English
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+<br>
+<br>
+<h2>Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks</h2>
+Adapted from the French of
+<b>La Fontaine.</b>
+<br>
+Written by,<br>
+<b>W. T. Larned</b><br>
+Illustrated by,<br>
+<b>John Rae</b>.
+<br>
+<img src="images/0-1.jpg"  alt="0-1">
+<br>
+<br>
+<p>E-Book Created by Tyler Anderson,<br>
+as a birthday present to little<br>
+Johnny James Webb, on his first Birthday.<br>
+<br>
+I've arranged the images so they fit the story.<br>
+Spell-checked with www.thesolutioncafe.com</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3><i>To</i><br>
+All Little Americans<br>
+<i>With The Hope That<br>
+They May Become Better Acquainted<br>
+With</i><br>
+Our Friends, The French</h3>
+<br>
+<img src="images/0-2.jpg"  alt="0-2">
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+<h2>A Preface For Parents</h2>
+</center>
+<p>La Fontaine composed the most entertaining Fables ever
+written in any language, and made them a model of literary
+perfection; yet our translators and compilers have somehow
+neglected him. His Fables are lyric poetry of a high order,
+and this alone has doubtless been a barrier to a better
+acquaintance with his work when transferred to our own
+tongue. Done into prose, the Fables are no longer
+La Fontaine, but take their place with the many
+respectable, dull translations which English readers try to
+admire because they are classics--though the soul that
+made them such has been separated from the dead body.</p>
+
+<p>It has seemed to me that while the full enjoyment of
+La Fontaine must always be reserved for those who can
+read him in French, it might be possible at least to convey
+something of his originality and blithe spirit through the
+medium of light verse. In making the attempt I am fully
+aware of my temerity, and the criticism it will invite. To
+excuse the one and to meet the other I have taken refuge
+in the term "adaptation"--even though the word applies
+only in part to my paraphrases. Some of the Fables in
+this book are translations in a true sense, and keep
+closely to the text. From others I have erased such
+political, mythological and literary allusions (in which
+La Fontaine abounds) as are either obsolete or
+unintelligible to a child.</p>
+
+<p>But my chief literary sin--if sin it be--is twofold. In the first
+place I have departed wholly from the metrical arrangements
+of the originals--substituting therefore a variety of forms in
+line and stanza that more accord with the modern and
+American ear. In the second place I have had the
+hardihood--as in "The Lion and The Gnat"--to modify the
+elegance of the original with phrases more appropriate to
+our contemporary beasts. Animal talk, I feel sure, has lost
+something of its stateliness since the days when our
+French author overheard it. The Owl is no less pedantic
+perhaps, but the Lion certainly has declined in
+majesty--along with our human kings.</p>
+
+<p>For these offenses, La Fontaine--who forgave everyone--is
+bound to forgive me. The most good-humored Frenchmen,
+he could condone all faults but dullness. <i>That</i> offense
+against French fundamental principles invariably put him
+to sleep--whether the bore who button-holed him was a
+savant of the Sorbonne or just an ordinary ass.</p>
+
+<p>One thing more. This little collection from his 240 Fables is
+meant, first of all, for children. In assembling it no Fable
+was admitted that has not been approved by generations
+of the young and old. No apologue addressed to the
+mature intelligence alone, or framed to fit the society
+of his day, is here included.</p>
+
+<p>Many books which men have agreed to call classics are
+seldom taken down from the shelves. It is otherwise with
+La Fontaine. His Fables were eagerly read by the great
+men and women of his time, and are still read and
+enjoyed all the world over.</p>
+
+<p>The causes of this lasting popularity are not obscure. From
+the earliest period--whether in India, Greece, Arabia or
+Rome--the Fable has pleased and instructed mankind. It
+told important truths, easily perceived, in an entertaining
+way; and often said more in a few words than could be
+said through any other kind of writing. Now, no one person
+is the author of the Fables we know so well. Aesop did not
+write the Fables bearing his name. There is even reason to
+believe that Aesop is himself a Fable. At any rate, the
+things ascribed to him are the work of many hands, and
+have undergone many changes. These old stories of
+animals began to be written so long ago, and the history
+of them is so vague and confusing, that only in recent
+years have scholars at last been able to trace them, and
+to fix their authorship.</p>
+
+<p>The significant thing to keep in mind is that, for twentieth
+century readers, the best Fables are not merely the best
+ones ever written, but the best ones <i>re</i>-written. In other
+words, the Fable was for centuries an old story in a rough
+state, and the writers who have made it most interesting
+are the writers who told it over again in a manner that
+makes it Art. A Greek named Babrius, of whom almost
+nothing is known, is remembered because he collected
+and versified some of the so-called Fables of Aesop. A
+Roman slave named Phaedrus also put these Fables
+into Latin verse; and his work to-day is a text book in
+our colleges.</p>
+
+<p>Among modern writers, it was reserved for La Fontaine to
+take these ancient themes and make them his own--just
+as Moli�re, "taking his own wherever he found it," borrowed
+freely from the classics for his greatest plays; just as
+Shakespeare re-formed forgotten tales with the glow and
+splendor of surpassing genius, so La Fontaine turned to
+India, Greece, Italy, and furnishing the old Fables and
+facetious tales, refreshed them with his originality. Some
+of them were his own inventions, but for the most part
+they were "Aesop" and Phaedrus, made over by poetic
+art and vivified with a wit and humor characteristically
+French.</p>
+
+<p>But if La Fontaine's fame endures, it is not alone that he
+was the greatest lyric poet of a great literary period.
+Apart from the wit and fancy of his creations--apart from
+the philosophy, wisdom, and knowledge of human nature
+that so delighted Moli�re, Boileau and Racine--his Fables
+disclose the goodness and simplicity of one who lived
+much with Nature, and cared nothing for the false
+splendors of the court. Living most of his life in the
+country, the woods, and streams and fields had been a
+constant source of inspiration. He saw animals through
+the eyes of a naturalist and poet; and when he came to
+make them talk, the little fishes "talked like little
+fishes--not like whales". With Shakespeare's banished
+Frenchman in the Forest of Arden, he<br>
+<center><i>Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,<br>
+Sermons in stones, and good in everything.</i>
+
+<p>An anecdote often told of him aptly illustrates his habit
+of mind. He was late in coming to a fashionable dinner,
+and his excuse was this:</p>
+
+<p>"I hope you will pardon me," he said. "I was detained at
+the funeral of an ant, and I could not come until the
+ceremony was over."</p>
+
+<p>This was not a pleasantry, but the truth. He had been
+watching an ant-hill, and was so absorbed in observing
+a dead ant carried off by the living colonists for burial
+that he had forgotten his engagement.</p>
+
+<p>The first six volumes of the Fables--published in 1668,
+when he was 47, and in Paris--were an immediate and
+brilliant success, at a time when French genius was in
+full flower. But the literary men of that golden age got
+their pecuniary reward not from the public, but from
+patrons. Later in life, when La Fontaine at last was
+graciously recognized by the grand monarch, he
+appeared before the royal presence to receive his due.
+Even then, with his usual absentmindedness, he forgot
+to bring the book he was to present, and left behind him
+in the carriage the purse of gold the King bestowed
+upon him.</p>
+
+<p>However, the Fables brought him much in fame and
+friendship. Everybody loved La Fontaine. Favorite of great
+lords and ladies, the court of Louis XIV could not make
+him otherwise than natural. Poor and improvident, poverty
+had no pangs for him. No sorrow ever gave him a
+sleepless hour. To the last he lived up to his
+nickname--<i>Bon-homme.</i> And it is the gentle and good
+man who is always looking out at us at us from the
+fables he refashioned for all time.</p>
+
+<center>William Trowbridge Larned.<br>
+New York, July 1918.</center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<h3>This book contains the following Fables<br>
+from the French of La Fontaine:</h3>
+<br>
+<center>
+<a href="#f1"><b>The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f2"><b>The Grasshopper And The Ant.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f3"><b>The Cat And The Fox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f4"><b>The Hen With The Golden Eggs.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f5"><b>The Dog And His Image.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f6"><b>The Acorn And The Pumpkin.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f7"><b>The Raven And The Fox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f8"><b>The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f9"><b>The Lion And The Gnat.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f10"><b>The Dove And The Ant.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f11"><b>The Fox And The Grapes.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f12"><b>The Ass In The Lion's Skin.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f13"><b>The Fox And The Stork.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f14"><b>The Monkey And The Cat.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f15"><b>The Hare And The Tortoise.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f16"><b>The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f17"><b>The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f18"><b>The Miller, His Son And The Ass.</b></a><br/>
+</center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f1" id="f1"></a><i>The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/1-1.jpg"  alt="1-1"><br>
+<br>
+There was a little Frog<br>
+Whose home was in a bog,<br>
+And he worried 'cause he wasn't big enough.<br>
+He sees an ox and cries:<br>
+"That's just about my size,<br>
+<i>If I stretch myself--Say Sister, see me puff!"</i><br>
+<img src="images/1-2.jpg" alt="See me puff!"><br>
+So he blew, blew, blew,<br>
+Saying: "Sister, will <i>that</i> do?"<br>
+But she shook her head. And then he lost his wits.<br>
+For he stretched and puffed again<br>
+Till he cracked beneath the strain,<br>
+And burst, and flew about in little bits.<br>
+<img src="images/1-3.jpg" alt="1-3"><br>
+<img src="images/1-4.jpg" alt="1-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f2" id="f2"></a><i>The Grasshopper And The Ant.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/2-1.jpg" alt="2-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Grasshopper, singing<br>
+All summer long,<br>
+Now found winter stinging,<br>
+And ceased in his song.<br>
+Not a morsel or crumb in his cupboard--<br>
+So he shivered, and ceased in his song.<br>
+<br>
+Miss Ant was his neighbor;<br>
+To her he went:<br>
+"O, you're rich from labor,<br>
+And I've not a cent.<br>
+Lend me food, and I vow I'll return it,<br>
+Though at present I have not a cent."<br>
+<img src="images/2-2.jpg" alt="Lend me food and I vow I'll return it."><br>
+The Ant's not a lender,<br>
+I must confess.<br>
+Her heart's far from tender<br>
+To one in distress.<br>
+So she said: "Pray, how passed you the summer,<br>
+That in winter you come to distress?"<br>
+<br>
+"I sang through the summer,"<br>
+Grasshopper said.<br>
+"But now I am glummer<br>
+Because I've no bread."<br>
+"So you <i>sang!"</i> sneered the Ant. "That relieves me.<br>
+Now it's winter--go <i>dance</i> for your bread!"<br>
+<img src="images/2-3.jpg" alt="Poorhouse."><br>
+<img src="images/2-4.jpg" alt="He who will not work shall not eat.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f3" id="f3"></a><i>The Cat And The Fox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/3-1.jpg" alt="3-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Cat and the Fox once took a walk together,<br>
+Sharpening their wits with talk about the weather<br>
+And as their walking sharpened appetite, too;<br>
+They also took some things they had no right to.<br>
+Cream, that is so delicious when it thickens,<br>
+Pleased the Cat best. The Fox liked little chickens.<br>
+<br>
+With stomachs filled, they presently grew prouder,<br>
+And each began to try to talk the louder--<br>
+Bragging about his skill, and strength, and cunning.<br>
+"Pooh!" said the Fox. "You ought to see <i>me</i> running.<br>
+Besides, I have <i>a hundred tricks.</i> You Cat, you!<br>
+What can <i>you</i> do when Mr. Dog comes at you?"<br>
+"To tell the truth," the Cat said, "though it grieve me<br>
+I've but <i>one</i> trick. Yet that's enough--believe me!"<br>
+<br>
+There came a pack of fox-hounds--yelping, baying.<br>
+"Pardon me", said the Cat. "I can't be staying.<br>
+This is <i>my</i> trick." And up a tree he scurried,<br>
+Leaving the Fox below a trifle worried.<br>
+<img src="images/3-2.jpg" alt="Pardon me, said the Cat, I can't be staying."><br>
+In vain he tried his hundred tricks and ruses<br>
+(The sort of thing that Mr. Dog confuses)--<br>
+Doubling, and seeking one hole, then another--<br>
+Smoked out of each until he thought he'd smother.<br>
+At last as he once more came out of cover,<br>
+Two nimble dogs pounced on him--All was over!<br>
+<img src="images/3-3.jpg" alt="3-3"><br>
+<img src="images/3-4.jpg" alt="Here Lieth Reynard Ye Fox Who Had Many Tricks: Yet Lacked One."><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f4" id="f4"></a><i>The Hen With The Golden Eggs.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/4-1.jpg" alt="4-1"><br>
+<br>
+<i>To this lesson in greed,<br>
+Pray, little ones, heed:</i><br>
+<br>
+Each day, we are told,<br>
+A most wonderful Hen<br>
+Laid an egg made of gold<br>
+For this meanest of men.<br>
+<img src="images/4-2.jpg" alt="The meanest of men."><br>
+So greedy was he,<br>
+He was not satisfied.<br>
+"What is <i>one</i> egg to me?<br>
+I want <i>all</i> that' inside!"<br>
+<img src="images/4-3.jpg" alt="4-3"><br>
+He cut off her head,<br>
+And began to explore.<br>
+But the poor hen was dead.<br>
+And could lay eggs no more.<br>
+<img src="images/4-4.jpg" alt="4-4"><br>
+<img src="images/4-5.jpg" alt="4-5">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f5" id="f5"></a><i>The Dog And His Image.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/5-1.jpg" alt="There he saw another one."><br>
+<br>
+A foolish Dog, who carried in his jaw<br>
+A juicy bone,<br>
+Looked down into a stream, and there he saw<br>
+Another one,<br>
+Splash! In he plunged... The image disappeared--<br>
+The meat he <i>had</i> was gone.<br>
+Indeed, he nearly sank,<br>
+And barely reached the bank.<br>
+<img src="images/5-2.jpg" alt="5-2"><br>
+<img src="images/5-3.jpg" alt="5-3"><br>
+<img src="images/5-4.jpg" alt="Dunce.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f6" id="f6"></a><i>The Acorn and the Pumpkin.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/6-1.jpg" alt="6-1"><br>
+<br>
+Once there was a country bumpkin<br>
+Who observed a great big pumpkin<br>
+To a slender stem attached;<br>
+While upon an oak tree nourished,<br>
+Little acorns grew and flourished.<br>
+"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."<br>
+<img src="images/6-2.jpg" alt="6-2"><br>
+"If, despite my humble station,<br>
+<i>I</i>'d a hand in this Creation,<br>
+Pumpkins on the oaks would be;<br>
+And the acorn, light and little,<br>
+On this pumpkin stem so brittle<br>
+Would be placed by clever Me."<br>
+<img src="images/6-3.jpg" alt="6-3"><br>
+Then, fatigued with so much thought, he<br>
+Rest beneath the oak tree sought. He<br>
+Soon in slumber found repose<br>
+But, alas! An acorn, falling<br>
+On the spot where he lay sprawling,<br>
+Hit him--plump!--Upon the nose.<br>
+<img src="images/6-4.jpg" alt="Gosh! he said. Suppose a pumpkin came a-fallin on my face!"><br>
+Up he jumped--a wiser bumpkin.<br>
+"Gosh!" he said. "Suppose a pumpkin<br>
+Came a-fallin' on my face!<br>
+After all, if <i>I</i> had made things,<br>
+I'll allow that I'm afraid things<br>
+Might be some what out of place."<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f7" id="f7"></a><i>The Raven And The Fox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/7-1.jpg" alt="7-1"><br>
+<br>
+Mr. Raven was perched upon a limb,<br>
+And Reynard the Fox looked up at him;<br>
+For the Raven held in his great big beak<br>
+A morsel the Fox would go far to seek.<br>
+<img src="images/7-2.jpg" alt="You are a handsome bird."><br>
+Said the Fox, in admiring tones: "My word!<br>
+Sir Raven, you <i>are</i> a handsome bird.<br>
+Such feathers! If you would only <i>sing,</i><br>
+The birds of these woods would call you King."<br>
+<br>
+The Raven, who did not see the joke,<br>
+Forgot that his voice was just a croak.<br>
+He opened his beak, in his foolish pride--<br>
+And down fell the morsel the Fox had spied.<br>
+<img src="images/7-3.jpg" alt="7-3"><br>
+"Ha-ha!" said the Fox. "And now you see<br>
+You should not listen to flattery.<br>
+Vanity, Sir is a horrid vice--<br>
+I'm sure the lesson is worth the price."<br>
+<img src="images/7-4.jpg" alt="7-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f8" id="f8"></a><i>The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/8-1.jpg" alt="8-1"><br>
+<br>
+A City Mouse, with ways polite,<br>
+A Country Mouse invited<br>
+To sup with him and spend the night.<br>
+Said Country Mouse: "De--lighted!"<br>
+In truth it proved a royal treat,<br>
+With everything that's good to eat.<br>
+<img src="images/8-2.jpg" alt="8-2"><br>
+Alas! When they had just begun<br>
+To gobble their dinner,<br>
+A knock was heard that made them run.<br>
+The City Mouse seemed thinner.<br>
+And as they scampered and turned tail,<br>
+He saw the Country Mouse grow pale.<br>
+<img src="images/8-3.jpg" alt="A knock was heard."><br>
+<img src="images/8-4.jpg" alt="8-4"><br>
+<img src="images/8-5.jpg" alt="8-5"><br>
+The knocking ceased. A false alarm!<br>
+The City Mouse grew braver.<br>
+"Come back!" he cried. "No, no! The farm,<br>
+Where I'll not quake or quaver,<br>
+Suits <i>me</i>," replied the Country Mouse.<br>
+"You're welcome to your city house."<br>
+<img src="images/8-6.jpg" alt="8-6">
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f9" id="f9"></a><i>The Lion And The Gnat.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/9-1.jpg" alt="9-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Lion once said to the Gnat: "You brat,<br>
+Clear out just as quick as you can, now--s'cat!<br>
+If you meddle with me<br>
+I will not guarantee<br>
+That you won't be slammed perfectly flat--<br>
+D'ye see?"<br>
+<img src="images/9-2.jpg" alt="If you meddle with me I will not guarantee that you won't be slammed perfectly flat."><br>
+Said the Gnat: "Because you're called King--you thing!--<br>
+You fancy that you will make <i>me</i> take wing.<br>
+Why, an ox weighs much more,<br>
+Yet I drive him before<br>
+When I get good and ready to sting.<br>
+Now, roar!"<br>
+<br>
+Then loudly his trumpet he blew. And--whew!<br>
+How fiercely and fast at his foe he flew.<br>
+From the tail to the toes<br>
+He draws blood as he goes.<br>
+Then he starts in to sting and to chew<br>
+His nose.<br>
+<br>
+Sir Lion was mad with the pain. In vain<br>
+He roared and he foamed and he shook his mane.<br>
+All the beasts that were nigh<br>
+Fled in fear from his cry.<br>
+But the Gnat only stung him again--<br>
+In the eye.<br>
+<br>
+He looked and laughed as he saw--Haw, Haw!--<br>
+The Lion self-torn by his tooth and claw,<br>
+So His Majesty's hide<br>
+With his own blood was dyed.<br>
+Said the Gnat: "Shall I serve you up raw--<br>
+Or fried?"<br>
+<br>
+It's finished. The Lion's loud roar is o'er.<br>
+He's bitten and beaten, he's sick and sore.<br>
+But a spider's web spread<br>
+Trapped the Gnat as he sped<br>
+With the news...He will never fight more--<br>
+He's dead!<br>
+<img src="images/9-3.jpg" alt="9-3">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f10" id="f10"></a><i>The Dove And The Ant.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/10-1.jpg" alt="10-1"><br>
+<br>
+An Ant who in a brook would drink<br>
+Fell off the bank. He tried<br>
+To swim, and felt his courage sink--<br>
+This ocean seemed so wide.<br>
+But for a dove who flew above<br>
+He would have drowned and died.<br>
+<br>
+The friendly Dove within her beak<br>
+A bridge of grass-stem bore:<br>
+On this the Ant, though worn and weak.<br>
+Contrived to reach the shore<br>
+Said he: "The tact of this kind act<br>
+I'll cherish evermore."<br>
+<br>
+Behold! A barefoot wretch went by<br>
+With slingshot in his hand.<br>
+Said he: "You'll make a pigeon pie<br>
+That will be kind of grand."<br>
+He meant to murder the gentle bird--<br>
+Who did not understand.<br>
+<img src="images/10-2.jpg" alt="Said me, You'll make a pigeon-pie."><br>
+<img src="images/10-3.jpg" alt="10-3"><br>
+The Ant then stung him on the heel<br>
+(So quick to see the sling).<br>
+He turned his head, and missed a meal:<br>
+The pigeon pie took wing.<br>
+And so the Dove lived on to love--<br>
+Beloved by everything.<br>
+<img src="images/10-4.jpg" alt="Amor Vincit.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f11" id="f11"></a><i>The Fox And The Grapes.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/11-1.jpg" alt="11-1"><br>
+<br>
+Rosy and ripe, and ready to box,<br>
+The grapes hang high o'er the hungry Fox.--<br>
+He pricks up his ears, and his eye he cocks.<br>
+<img src="images/11-2.jpg" alt="11-2"><br>
+Ripe and rosy, yet so high!--<br>
+He gazes at them with a greedy eye,<br>
+And knows he must eat and drink--or die.<br>
+<br>
+When the jump proves to be beyond his power--<br>
+"Pooh!" says the Fox. "Let the pigs devour<br>
+Fruit of <i>that</i> sort. <i>Those grapes are sour!"</i><br>
+<img src="images/11-3.jpg" alt="Those grapes are sour!"><br>
+<img src="images/11-4.jpg" alt="11-4"><br>
+<img src="images/11-5.jpg" alt="11-5">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f12" id="f12"></a><i>The Ass In The Lion's Skin.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/12-1.jpg" alt="For Sale."><br>
+<br>
+An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed<br>
+Made everybody fear.<br>
+And this was queer,<br>
+Because he was himself afraid.<br>
+Yet everywhere he strayed<br>
+The people ran like deer.<br>
+<img src="images/12-2.jpg" alt="12-2"><br>
+Ah, ah! He is betrayed:<br>
+<i>No lion has that long and hairy ears.</i><br>
+<img src="images/12-3.jpg" alt="No lion has that long and hairy ear!"><br>
+Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk<br>
+Who are not in the secret of the joke,<br>
+With open mouths and eyes<br>
+Stare at old Martin's prize--<br>
+A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.<br>
+<img src="images/12-4.jpg" alt="12-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f13" id="f13"></a><i>The Fox And The Stork.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/13-1.jpg" alt="13-1"><br>
+<br>
+Old Father Fox, who was known to be mean,<br>
+Invited Dame Stork in to dinner.<br>
+There was nothing but soup that could scarcely be seen:--<br>
+Soup <i>never</i> was served any thinner.<br>
+And the worst of it was, as I'm bound to relate,<br>
+Father Fox dished it up on a <i>flat</i> china plate.<br>
+<img src="images/13-2.jpg" alt="13-2"><br>
+Dame Stork, as you know, has a very long beak:<br>
+Not a crumb or drop could she gather<br>
+Had she pecked at the plate every day in the week.<br>
+But as for the Fox--sly old Father:<br>
+With his tongue lapping soup at a scandalous rate,<br>
+He licked up the last bit and polished the plate.<br>
+<br>
+Pretty soon Mistress Stork spread a feast of her own;<br>
+Father Fox was invited to share it.<br>
+He came, and he saw, and he gave a great groan:<br>
+The stork had known how to prepare it.<br>
+She had meant to get even, and now was <i>her</i> turn:<br>
+Father Fox was invited <i>to eat from an urn.</i><br>
+<img src="images/13-3.jpg" alt="Father Fox was invited to eat from an urn."><br>
+The urn's mouth was small, and it had a long neck;<br>
+The food in it smelled most delightful.<br>
+Dame Stork, with her beak in, proceeded to peck;<br>
+But the Fox found that fasting is frightful.<br>
+Home he sneaked. On his way there he felt his ears burn<br>
+When he thought of the Stork and her tall, tricky urn.<br>
+<img src="images/13-4.jpg" alt="13-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f14" id="f14"></a><i>The Monkey And The Cat.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/14-1.jpg" alt="14-1"><br>
+<br>
+Jocko the Monkey, Mouser--his chum, the Cat,<br>
+Had the same master. Both were sleek and fat,<br>
+And mischievous. If anything went wrong,<br>
+The neighbors where not blamed. Be sure of <i>that.</i><br>
+<br>
+Jocko, 'tis said was something of a thief;<br>
+Mouser, if truth be told, would just as lief<br>
+Much stolen cheese as chase the midnight mouse.<br>
+The praise bestowed on <i>either</i> must be brief.<br>
+<br>
+One day these rogues, stretched flat before the fire,<br>
+Saw chestnuts roassting. "Ah! Could we conspire<br>
+To jerk them out," said Jocko, "from the coals,<br>
+We'd smash the shells and have our heart's desire.<br>
+<img src="images/14-2.jpg" alt="14-2"><br>
+"Come, Brother Mouser! This day 'tis your turn<br>
+To do some bold and desperate thing to earn<br>
+A reputation. You, who are so quick,<br>
+Snatch out the nuts before they start to burn.<br>
+<br>
+"Alas! That I, a Monkey, was not made<br>
+To play with fire. But <i>you</i> are not afraid."<br>
+So Mouser--pleased, like many a cat or man,<br>
+With pretty words--sly Jocko's wish obeyed.<br>
+<br>
+Into the fire he put a practiced paw:<br>
+Out came a chestnut clinging to his claw--<br>
+Another and another. As they dropped<br>
+Jocko devoured them, whether roast or raw.<br>
+<img src="images/14-3.jpg" alt="So Mouser--pleased--sly Joko's wish obeyed."><br>
+A servant enters. Off the robbers run.<br>
+Jocko, you may be sure, enjoyed the fun.<br>
+But Mouser's paw is sadly singed--for what?<br>
+Just to get nuts for Jocko. <i>He</i> got none.<br>
+<img src="images/14-4.jpg" alt="14-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f15" id="f15"></a><i>The Hare And The Tortoise.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/15-1.jpg" alt="I'll run you a race if you dare."><br>
+<br>
+Said the Tortoise one day to the Hare:<br>
+"I'll run you a race if you dare.<br>
+I'll bet you cannot<br>
+Arrive at that spot<br>
+As quickly as <i>I</i> can get there."<br>
+<br>
+Quoth the Hare: "You are surely insane.<br>
+Pray, <i>what</i> has affected your brain?<br>
+You seem pretty sick.<br>
+Call a doctor in--quick,<br>
+And let him prescribe for your pain."<br>
+<br>
+"Never mind," said the Tortoise. "Let's run!<br>
+Will you bet me?" "Why, certainly." "Done!"<br>
+While the slow Tortoise creeps<br>
+Mr. Hare makes four leaps,<br>
+And then loafs around in the sun.<br>
+<br>
+It seemed such a one-sided race,<br>
+To win was almost a disgrace.<br>
+So he frolicked about<br>
+Then at last he set out--<br>
+As the Tortoise was as nearing the place.<br>
+<img src="images/15-2.jpg" alt="15-2"><br>
+Too late! Though he sped like a dart,<br>
+The Tortoise was first. She was smart:<br>
+"You can surely run fast,"<br>
+She remarked. "Yet you're last.<br>
+It is better to get a good start."<br>
+<img src="images/15-3.jpg" alt="15-3"><br>
+<img src="images/15-4.jpg" alt="15-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f16" id="f16"></a><i>The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/16-1.jpg" alt="I'm known as a Heron as such, I live high."><br>
+<br>
+A long-legged Heron, with long neck and beak,<br>
+Set out for a stroll by the bank of a creek.<br>
+So clear was the water that if you looked sharp<br>
+You could see the pike caper around with the carp.<br>
+The Heron might quickly have speared enough fish<br>
+To make for his dinner a capital dish.<br>
+But he was a very particular bird:<br>
+His food fixed "just so," at the hours he preferred.<br>
+And hence he decided 'twas better to wait,<br>
+Since his appetite grew when he supped rather late.<br>
+Pretty soon he was hungry, and stalked to the bank.<br>
+Where some pondfish were leaping--a fish of low rank.<br>
+"Bah, Bah!" said the Bird. "Sup on these? No--not I.<br>
+I'm known as a Heron: as such I live high."<br>
+Then some gudgeon swam past that were tempting to see,<br>
+But the Heron said hautily: "No--not for <i>me.</i><br>
+For those I'd not bother to open my beak,<br>
+If I had to hang 'round come next Friday a week."<br>
+Thus bragged the big Bird. But he's bound to confess<br>
+That he opened his elegant beak for much less.<br>
+<i>Not another fish came.</i> When he found all else fail,<br>
+He was happy to happen upon a fat snail.<br>
+<img src="images/16-2.jpg" alt="16-2"><br>
+<img src="images/16-3.jpg" alt="16-3"><br>
+<img src="images/16-4.jpg" alt="16-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f17" id="f17"></a><i>The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/17-1.jpg" alt="17-1"><br>
+<br>
+An Eagle swooped from out the sky,<br>
+And carried off a sheep.<br>
+A Raven seeing him, said: "I<br>
+Could do that too if I should try.<br>
+His meal comes mighty cheap."<br>
+<br>
+Of all that well-fed flock was one<br>
+As fat as fat could be.<br>
+The Raven rose, and lit upon<br>
+Her back. She seemed to weigh a ton--<br>
+So very fat was she.<br>
+<img src="images/17-2.jpg" alt="17-2"><br>
+And, oh! Her wool was wondrous thick:<br>
+It would have made a mat.<br>
+The Raven's claws are caught, and stick!<br>
+He's played himself a pretty trick--<br>
+To fly with one so fat.<br>
+<img src="images/17-3.jpg" alt="The Raven's claws are caught, and stick."><br>
+"Ba, ba!" "Caw, caw!" cry bird and beast.<br>
+The shepherd comes at last:<br>
+Sir Raven who would find a feast<br>
+Is from the woolly one released,<br>
+And in a cage kept fast.<br>
+<img src="images/17-4.jpg" alt="17-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f18" id="f18"></a><i>The Miller, His Son And The Ass.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/18-1.jpg" alt="The way that they started made everyone stare."><br>
+<br>
+A Miller and Son once set out for the fair,<br>
+To sell a fine ass they had brought up with care;<br>
+And the way that they started made everyone stare.<br>
+<br>
+To keep the Ass fresh, so the beast would sell dear<br>
+On a pole they slung him. It surely seemed queer:<br>
+He looked, with heels up, like some huge chandelier.<br>
+<br>
+One person who passed them cried out in great glee.<br>
+"Was there anything ever so silly?" said he.<br>
+"Can you guess who the greatest Ass is of those three?"<br>
+<br>
+The Miller at once put the brute on the ground;<br>
+And the Ass, who had liked to ride t'other way round,<br>
+Complained in language of curious sound.<br>
+<br>
+No matter. The Miller now made his Son ride,<br>
+While he followed after or walked alongside.<br>
+Then up came three merchants. The eldest one cried;<br>
+<br>
+"Get down there, young fellow! I never did see<br>
+Such manners:--a gray-beard walks where <i>you</i> should be.<br>
+He should ride, you should follow. Just take that from <i>me!"</i><br>
+<br>
+"Dear Sirs," quoth the Miller, "I'd see you content."<br>
+He climbed to the saddle; on foot the boy went...<br>
+Three girls passed. Said one: "Do you see that old Gent?<br>
+There he sits, like a bishop. I say it's a shame,<br>
+While that boy trudging after seems more than half lame."<br>
+"Little girl," said the Miller, "go back whence you came."<br>
+<br>
+Yet this young creature so worked on his mind<br>
+That he wanted no woman to call him unkind:<br>
+And he said to his Son: "Seat yourself here--behind."<br>
+<img src="images/18-2.jpg" alt="18-2"><br>
+With the Ass bearing double they jogged on again,<br>
+And once more met a critic, who said: "It is plain<br>
+Only dunces would give their poor donkey such pain.<br>
+<br>
+He will die with their weight: it's a shame and a sin.<br>
+For their faithful servant they care not a pin.<br>
+They'll have nothing to sell at the fair but <i>his skin."</i><br>
+<br>
+"Dear me!" said the Miller, "what <i>am</i> I to do?<br>
+Must I suit the whole world and the world's father, too?<br>
+Yet it must end <i>some</i> time--so I'll see the thing through."<br>
+<br>
+Both Father and Son now decided to walk,<br>
+While the Ass marched in front with a strut and a stalk;<br>
+Yet the people who passed them continued to talk.<br>
+<br>
+Said one to another: "Look there, if you please,<br>
+How they wear out their shoes, while their Ass takes his ease.<br>
+Were there ever, d'ye think, three such asses as these?"<br>
+Said the Miller: "You're right. I'm an Ass! It is true.<br>
+Too long have I listened to people like you.<br>
+But now I am done with the whole kit and crew.<br>
+<br>
+"Let them blame me or praise me, keep silent or yell,<br>
+My goings and comings they cannot compel.<br>
+I will do as I please!"...So he did--and did well.<br>
+<img src="images/18-3.jpg" alt="18-3">
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+&nbsp;
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+Project Gutenberg's Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, by Jean de La Fontaine
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+Title: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
+       From the French of La Fontaine
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+Author: Jean de La Fontaine
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+Illustrator: John Rae
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+Translator: W.T. (William Trowbridge) Larned
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+Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24108]
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+<br>
+<br>
+<h2>Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks</h2>
+Adapted from the French of
+<b>La Fontaine.</b>
+<br>
+Written by,<br>
+<b>W. T. Larned</b><br>
+Illustrated by,<br>
+<b>John Rae</b>.
+<br>
+<img src="images/0-1.jpg"  alt="0-1">
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+<br>
+<p>E-Book Created by Tyler Anderson,<br>
+as a birthday present to little<br>
+Johnny James Webb, on his first Birthday.<br>
+<br>
+I've arranged the images so they fit the story.<br>
+Spell-checked with www.thesolutioncafe.com</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<h3><i>To</i><br>
+All Little Americans<br>
+<i>With The Hope That<br>
+They May Become Better Acquainted<br>
+With</i><br>
+Our Friends, The French</h3>
+<br>
+<img src="images/0-2.jpg"  alt="0-2">
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+<h2>A Preface For Parents</h2>
+</center>
+<p>La Fontaine composed the most entertaining Fables ever
+written in any language, and made them a model of literary
+perfection; yet our translators and compilers have somehow
+neglected him. His Fables are lyric poetry of a high order,
+and this alone has doubtless been a barrier to a better
+acquaintance with his work when transferred to our own
+tongue. Done into prose, the Fables are no longer
+La Fontaine, but take their place with the many
+respectable, dull translations which English readers try to
+admire because they are classics--though the soul that
+made them such has been separated from the dead body.</p>
+
+<p>It has seemed to me that while the full enjoyment of
+La Fontaine must always be reserved for those who can
+read him in French, it might be possible at least to convey
+something of his originality and blithe spirit through the
+medium of light verse. In making the attempt I am fully
+aware of my temerity, and the criticism it will invite. To
+excuse the one and to meet the other I have taken refuge
+in the term "adaptation"--even though the word applies
+only in part to my paraphrases. Some of the Fables in
+this book are translations in a true sense, and keep
+closely to the text. From others I have erased such
+political, mythological and literary allusions (in which
+La Fontaine abounds) as are either obsolete or
+unintelligible to a child.</p>
+
+<p>But my chief literary sin--if sin it be--is twofold. In the first
+place I have departed wholly from the metrical arrangements
+of the originals--substituting therefore a variety of forms in
+line and stanza that more accord with the modern and
+American ear. In the second place I have had the
+hardihood--as in "The Lion and The Gnat"--to modify the
+elegance of the original with phrases more appropriate to
+our contemporary beasts. Animal talk, I feel sure, has lost
+something of its stateliness since the days when our
+French author overheard it. The Owl is no less pedantic
+perhaps, but the Lion certainly has declined in
+majesty--along with our human kings.</p>
+
+<p>For these offenses, La Fontaine--who forgave everyone--is
+bound to forgive me. The most good-humored Frenchmen,
+he could condone all faults but dullness. <i>That</i> offense
+against French fundamental principles invariably put him
+to sleep--whether the bore who button-holed him was a
+savant of the Sorbonne or just an ordinary ass.</p>
+
+<p>One thing more. This little collection from his 240 Fables is
+meant, first of all, for children. In assembling it no Fable
+was admitted that has not been approved by generations
+of the young and old. No apologue addressed to the
+mature intelligence alone, or framed to fit the society
+of his day, is here included.</p>
+
+<p>Many books which men have agreed to call classics are
+seldom taken down from the shelves. It is otherwise with
+La Fontaine. His Fables were eagerly read by the great
+men and women of his time, and are still read and
+enjoyed all the world over.</p>
+
+<p>The causes of this lasting popularity are not obscure. From
+the earliest period--whether in India, Greece, Arabia or
+Rome--the Fable has pleased and instructed mankind. It
+told important truths, easily perceived, in an entertaining
+way; and often said more in a few words than could be
+said through any other kind of writing. Now, no one person
+is the author of the Fables we know so well. Aesop did not
+write the Fables bearing his name. There is even reason to
+believe that Aesop is himself a Fable. At any rate, the
+things ascribed to him are the work of many hands, and
+have undergone many changes. These old stories of
+animals began to be written so long ago, and the history
+of them is so vague and confusing, that only in recent
+years have scholars at last been able to trace them, and
+to fix their authorship.</p>
+
+<p>The significant thing to keep in mind is that, for twentieth
+century readers, the best Fables are not merely the best
+ones ever written, but the best ones <i>re</i>-written. In other
+words, the Fable was for centuries an old story in a rough
+state, and the writers who have made it most interesting
+are the writers who told it over again in a manner that
+makes it Art. A Greek named Babrius, of whom almost
+nothing is known, is remembered because he collected
+and versified some of the so-called Fables of Aesop. A
+Roman slave named Phaedrus also put these Fables
+into Latin verse; and his work to-day is a text book in
+our colleges.</p>
+
+<p>Among modern writers, it was reserved for La Fontaine to
+take these ancient themes and make them his own--just
+as Moli�re, "taking his own wherever he found it," borrowed
+freely from the classics for his greatest plays; just as
+Shakespeare re-formed forgotten tales with the glow and
+splendor of surpassing genius, so La Fontaine turned to
+India, Greece, Italy, and furnishing the old Fables and
+facetious tales, refreshed them with his originality. Some
+of them were his own inventions, but for the most part
+they were "Aesop" and Phaedrus, made over by poetic
+art and vivified with a wit and humor characteristically
+French.</p>
+
+<p>But if La Fontaine's fame endures, it is not alone that he
+was the greatest lyric poet of a great literary period.
+Apart from the wit and fancy of his creations--apart from
+the philosophy, wisdom, and knowledge of human nature
+that so delighted Moli�re, Boileau and Racine--his Fables
+disclose the goodness and simplicity of one who lived
+much with Nature, and cared nothing for the false
+splendors of the court. Living most of his life in the
+country, the woods, and streams and fields had been a
+constant source of inspiration. He saw animals through
+the eyes of a naturalist and poet; and when he came to
+make them talk, the little fishes "talked like little
+fishes--not like whales". With Shakespeare's banished
+Frenchman in the Forest of Arden, he<br>
+<center><i>Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,<br>
+Sermons in stones, and good in everything.</i>
+
+<p>An anecdote often told of him aptly illustrates his habit
+of mind. He was late in coming to a fashionable dinner,
+and his excuse was this:</p>
+
+<p>"I hope you will pardon me," he said. "I was detained at
+the funeral of an ant, and I could not come until the
+ceremony was over."</p>
+
+<p>This was not a pleasantry, but the truth. He had been
+watching an ant-hill, and was so absorbed in observing
+a dead ant carried off by the living colonists for burial
+that he had forgotten his engagement.</p>
+
+<p>The first six volumes of the Fables--published in 1668,
+when he was 47, and in Paris--were an immediate and
+brilliant success, at a time when French genius was in
+full flower. But the literary men of that golden age got
+their pecuniary reward not from the public, but from
+patrons. Later in life, when La Fontaine at last was
+graciously recognized by the grand monarch, he
+appeared before the royal presence to receive his due.
+Even then, with his usual absentmindedness, he forgot
+to bring the book he was to present, and left behind him
+in the carriage the purse of gold the King bestowed
+upon him.</p>
+
+<p>However, the Fables brought him much in fame and
+friendship. Everybody loved La Fontaine. Favorite of great
+lords and ladies, the court of Louis XIV could not make
+him otherwise than natural. Poor and improvident, poverty
+had no pangs for him. No sorrow ever gave him a
+sleepless hour. To the last he lived up to his
+nickname--<i>Bon-homme.</i> And it is the gentle and good
+man who is always looking out at us at us from the
+fables he refashioned for all time.</p>
+
+<center>William Trowbridge Larned.<br>
+New York, July 1918.</center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+<br>
+
+<h3>This book contains the following Fables<br>
+from the French of La Fontaine:</h3>
+<br>
+<center>
+<a href="#f1"><b>The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f2"><b>The Grasshopper And The Ant.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f3"><b>The Cat And The Fox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f4"><b>The Hen With The Golden Eggs.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f5"><b>The Dog And His Image.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f6"><b>The Acorn And The Pumpkin.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f7"><b>The Raven And The Fox.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f8"><b>The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f9"><b>The Lion And The Gnat.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f10"><b>The Dove And The Ant.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f11"><b>The Fox And The Grapes.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f12"><b>The Ass In The Lion's Skin.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f13"><b>The Fox And The Stork.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f14"><b>The Monkey And The Cat.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f15"><b>The Hare And The Tortoise.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f16"><b>The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f17"><b>The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.</b></a><br/>
+<a href="#f18"><b>The Miller, His Son And The Ass.</b></a><br/>
+</center>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f1" id="f1"></a><i>The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/1-1.jpg"  alt="1-1"><br>
+<br>
+There was a little Frog<br>
+Whose home was in a bog,<br>
+And he worried 'cause he wasn't big enough.<br>
+He sees an ox and cries:<br>
+"That's just about my size,<br>
+<i>If I stretch myself--Say Sister, see me puff!"</i><br>
+<img src="images/1-2.jpg" alt="See me puff!"><br>
+So he blew, blew, blew,<br>
+Saying: "Sister, will <i>that</i> do?"<br>
+But she shook her head. And then he lost his wits.<br>
+For he stretched and puffed again<br>
+Till he cracked beneath the strain,<br>
+And burst, and flew about in little bits.<br>
+<img src="images/1-3.jpg" alt="1-3"><br>
+<img src="images/1-4.jpg" alt="1-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f2" id="f2"></a><i>The Grasshopper And The Ant.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/2-1.jpg" alt="2-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Grasshopper, singing<br>
+All summer long,<br>
+Now found winter stinging,<br>
+And ceased in his song.<br>
+Not a morsel or crumb in his cupboard--<br>
+So he shivered, and ceased in his song.<br>
+<br>
+Miss Ant was his neighbor;<br>
+To her he went:<br>
+"O, you're rich from labor,<br>
+And I've not a cent.<br>
+Lend me food, and I vow I'll return it,<br>
+Though at present I have not a cent."<br>
+<img src="images/2-2.jpg" alt="Lend me food and I vow I'll return it."><br>
+The Ant's not a lender,<br>
+I must confess.<br>
+Her heart's far from tender<br>
+To one in distress.<br>
+So she said: "Pray, how passed you the summer,<br>
+That in winter you come to distress?"<br>
+<br>
+"I sang through the summer,"<br>
+Grasshopper said.<br>
+"But now I am glummer<br>
+Because I've no bread."<br>
+"So you <i>sang!"</i> sneered the Ant. "That relieves me.<br>
+Now it's winter--go <i>dance</i> for your bread!"<br>
+<img src="images/2-3.jpg" alt="Poorhouse."><br>
+<img src="images/2-4.jpg" alt="He who will not work shall not eat.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f3" id="f3"></a><i>The Cat And The Fox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/3-1.jpg" alt="3-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Cat and the Fox once took a walk together,<br>
+Sharpening their wits with talk about the weather<br>
+And as their walking sharpened appetite, too;<br>
+They also took some things they had no right to.<br>
+Cream, that is so delicious when it thickens,<br>
+Pleased the Cat best. The Fox liked little chickens.<br>
+<br>
+With stomachs filled, they presently grew prouder,<br>
+And each began to try to talk the louder--<br>
+Bragging about his skill, and strength, and cunning.<br>
+"Pooh!" said the Fox. "You ought to see <i>me</i> running.<br>
+Besides, I have <i>a hundred tricks.</i> You Cat, you!<br>
+What can <i>you</i> do when Mr. Dog comes at you?"<br>
+"To tell the truth," the Cat said, "though it grieve me<br>
+I've but <i>one</i> trick. Yet that's enough--believe me!"<br>
+<br>
+There came a pack of fox-hounds--yelping, baying.<br>
+"Pardon me", said the Cat. "I can't be staying.<br>
+This is <i>my</i> trick." And up a tree he scurried,<br>
+Leaving the Fox below a trifle worried.<br>
+<img src="images/3-2.jpg" alt="Pardon me, said the Cat, I can't be staying."><br>
+In vain he tried his hundred tricks and ruses<br>
+(The sort of thing that Mr. Dog confuses)--<br>
+Doubling, and seeking one hole, then another--<br>
+Smoked out of each until he thought he'd smother.<br>
+At last as he once more came out of cover,<br>
+Two nimble dogs pounced on him--All was over!<br>
+<img src="images/3-3.jpg" alt="3-3"><br>
+<img src="images/3-4.jpg" alt="Here Lieth Reynard Ye Fox Who Had Many Tricks: Yet Lacked One."><br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f4" id="f4"></a><i>The Hen With The Golden Eggs.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/4-1.jpg" alt="4-1"><br>
+<br>
+<i>To this lesson in greed,<br>
+Pray, little ones, heed:</i><br>
+<br>
+Each day, we are told,<br>
+A most wonderful Hen<br>
+Laid an egg made of gold<br>
+For this meanest of men.<br>
+<img src="images/4-2.jpg" alt="The meanest of men."><br>
+So greedy was he,<br>
+He was not satisfied.<br>
+"What is <i>one</i> egg to me?<br>
+I want <i>all</i> that' inside!"<br>
+<img src="images/4-3.jpg" alt="4-3"><br>
+He cut off her head,<br>
+And began to explore.<br>
+But the poor hen was dead.<br>
+And could lay eggs no more.<br>
+<img src="images/4-4.jpg" alt="4-4"><br>
+<img src="images/4-5.jpg" alt="4-5">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f5" id="f5"></a><i>The Dog And His Image.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/5-1.jpg" alt="There he saw another one."><br>
+<br>
+A foolish Dog, who carried in his jaw<br>
+A juicy bone,<br>
+Looked down into a stream, and there he saw<br>
+Another one,<br>
+Splash! In he plunged... The image disappeared--<br>
+The meat he <i>had</i> was gone.<br>
+Indeed, he nearly sank,<br>
+And barely reached the bank.<br>
+<img src="images/5-2.jpg" alt="5-2"><br>
+<img src="images/5-3.jpg" alt="5-3"><br>
+<img src="images/5-4.jpg" alt="Dunce.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f6" id="f6"></a><i>The Acorn and the Pumpkin.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/6-1.jpg" alt="6-1"><br>
+<br>
+Once there was a country bumpkin<br>
+Who observed a great big pumpkin<br>
+To a slender stem attached;<br>
+While upon an oak tree nourished,<br>
+Little acorns grew and flourished.<br>
+"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."<br>
+<img src="images/6-2.jpg" alt="6-2"><br>
+"If, despite my humble station,<br>
+<i>I</i>'d a hand in this Creation,<br>
+Pumpkins on the oaks would be;<br>
+And the acorn, light and little,<br>
+On this pumpkin stem so brittle<br>
+Would be placed by clever Me."<br>
+<img src="images/6-3.jpg" alt="6-3"><br>
+Then, fatigued with so much thought, he<br>
+Rest beneath the oak tree sought. He<br>
+Soon in slumber found repose<br>
+But, alas! An acorn, falling<br>
+On the spot where he lay sprawling,<br>
+Hit him--plump!--Upon the nose.<br>
+<img src="images/6-4.jpg" alt="Gosh! he said. Suppose a pumpkin came a-fallin on my face!"><br>
+Up he jumped--a wiser bumpkin.<br>
+"Gosh!" he said. "Suppose a pumpkin<br>
+Came a-fallin' on my face!<br>
+After all, if <i>I</i> had made things,<br>
+I'll allow that I'm afraid things<br>
+Might be some what out of place."<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f7" id="f7"></a><i>The Raven And The Fox.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/7-1.jpg" alt="7-1"><br>
+<br>
+Mr. Raven was perched upon a limb,<br>
+And Reynard the Fox looked up at him;<br>
+For the Raven held in his great big beak<br>
+A morsel the Fox would go far to seek.<br>
+<img src="images/7-2.jpg" alt="You are a handsome bird."><br>
+Said the Fox, in admiring tones: "My word!<br>
+Sir Raven, you <i>are</i> a handsome bird.<br>
+Such feathers! If you would only <i>sing,</i><br>
+The birds of these woods would call you King."<br>
+<br>
+The Raven, who did not see the joke,<br>
+Forgot that his voice was just a croak.<br>
+He opened his beak, in his foolish pride--<br>
+And down fell the morsel the Fox had spied.<br>
+<img src="images/7-3.jpg" alt="7-3"><br>
+"Ha-ha!" said the Fox. "And now you see<br>
+You should not listen to flattery.<br>
+Vanity, Sir is a horrid vice--<br>
+I'm sure the lesson is worth the price."<br>
+<img src="images/7-4.jpg" alt="7-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f8" id="f8"></a><i>The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/8-1.jpg" alt="8-1"><br>
+<br>
+A City Mouse, with ways polite,<br>
+A Country Mouse invited<br>
+To sup with him and spend the night.<br>
+Said Country Mouse: "De--lighted!"<br>
+In truth it proved a royal treat,<br>
+With everything that's good to eat.<br>
+<img src="images/8-2.jpg" alt="8-2"><br>
+Alas! When they had just begun<br>
+To gobble their dinner,<br>
+A knock was heard that made them run.<br>
+The City Mouse seemed thinner.<br>
+And as they scampered and turned tail,<br>
+He saw the Country Mouse grow pale.<br>
+<img src="images/8-3.jpg" alt="A knock was heard."><br>
+<img src="images/8-4.jpg" alt="8-4"><br>
+<img src="images/8-5.jpg" alt="8-5"><br>
+The knocking ceased. A false alarm!<br>
+The City Mouse grew braver.<br>
+"Come back!" he cried. "No, no! The farm,<br>
+Where I'll not quake or quaver,<br>
+Suits <i>me</i>," replied the Country Mouse.<br>
+"You're welcome to your city house."<br>
+<img src="images/8-6.jpg" alt="8-6">
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f9" id="f9"></a><i>The Lion And The Gnat.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/9-1.jpg" alt="9-1"><br>
+<br>
+The Lion once said to the Gnat: "You brat,<br>
+Clear out just as quick as you can, now--s'cat!<br>
+If you meddle with me<br>
+I will not guarantee<br>
+That you won't be slammed perfectly flat--<br>
+D'ye see?"<br>
+<img src="images/9-2.jpg" alt="If you meddle with me I will not guarantee that you won't be slammed perfectly flat."><br>
+Said the Gnat: "Because you're called King--you thing!--<br>
+You fancy that you will make <i>me</i> take wing.<br>
+Why, an ox weighs much more,<br>
+Yet I drive him before<br>
+When I get good and ready to sting.<br>
+Now, roar!"<br>
+<br>
+Then loudly his trumpet he blew. And--whew!<br>
+How fiercely and fast at his foe he flew.<br>
+From the tail to the toes<br>
+He draws blood as he goes.<br>
+Then he starts in to sting and to chew<br>
+His nose.<br>
+<br>
+Sir Lion was mad with the pain. In vain<br>
+He roared and he foamed and he shook his mane.<br>
+All the beasts that were nigh<br>
+Fled in fear from his cry.<br>
+But the Gnat only stung him again--<br>
+In the eye.<br>
+<br>
+He looked and laughed as he saw--Haw, Haw!--<br>
+The Lion self-torn by his tooth and claw,<br>
+So His Majesty's hide<br>
+With his own blood was dyed.<br>
+Said the Gnat: "Shall I serve you up raw--<br>
+Or fried?"<br>
+<br>
+It's finished. The Lion's loud roar is o'er.<br>
+He's bitten and beaten, he's sick and sore.<br>
+But a spider's web spread<br>
+Trapped the Gnat as he sped<br>
+With the news...He will never fight more--<br>
+He's dead!<br>
+<img src="images/9-3.jpg" alt="9-3">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f10" id="f10"></a><i>The Dove And The Ant.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/10-1.jpg" alt="10-1"><br>
+<br>
+An Ant who in a brook would drink<br>
+Fell off the bank. He tried<br>
+To swim, and felt his courage sink--<br>
+This ocean seemed so wide.<br>
+But for a dove who flew above<br>
+He would have drowned and died.<br>
+<br>
+The friendly Dove within her beak<br>
+A bridge of grass-stem bore:<br>
+On this the Ant, though worn and weak.<br>
+Contrived to reach the shore<br>
+Said he: "The tact of this kind act<br>
+I'll cherish evermore."<br>
+<br>
+Behold! A barefoot wretch went by<br>
+With slingshot in his hand.<br>
+Said he: "You'll make a pigeon pie<br>
+That will be kind of grand."<br>
+He meant to murder the gentle bird--<br>
+Who did not understand.<br>
+<img src="images/10-2.jpg" alt="Said me, You'll make a pigeon-pie."><br>
+<img src="images/10-3.jpg" alt="10-3"><br>
+The Ant then stung him on the heel<br>
+(So quick to see the sling).<br>
+He turned his head, and missed a meal:<br>
+The pigeon pie took wing.<br>
+And so the Dove lived on to love--<br>
+Beloved by everything.<br>
+<img src="images/10-4.jpg" alt="Amor Vincit.">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f11" id="f11"></a><i>The Fox And The Grapes.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/11-1.jpg" alt="11-1"><br>
+<br>
+Rosy and ripe, and ready to box,<br>
+The grapes hang high o'er the hungry Fox.--<br>
+He pricks up his ears, and his eye he cocks.<br>
+<img src="images/11-2.jpg" alt="11-2"><br>
+Ripe and rosy, yet so high!--<br>
+He gazes at them with a greedy eye,<br>
+And knows he must eat and drink--or die.<br>
+<br>
+When the jump proves to be beyond his power--<br>
+"Pooh!" says the Fox. "Let the pigs devour<br>
+Fruit of <i>that</i> sort. <i>Those grapes are sour!"</i><br>
+<img src="images/11-3.jpg" alt="Those grapes are sour!"><br>
+<img src="images/11-4.jpg" alt="11-4"><br>
+<img src="images/11-5.jpg" alt="11-5">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f12" id="f12"></a><i>The Ass In The Lion's Skin.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/12-1.jpg" alt="For Sale."><br>
+<br>
+An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed<br>
+Made everybody fear.<br>
+And this was queer,<br>
+Because he was himself afraid.<br>
+Yet everywhere he strayed<br>
+The people ran like deer.<br>
+<img src="images/12-2.jpg" alt="12-2"><br>
+Ah, ah! He is betrayed:<br>
+<i>No lion has that long and hairy ears.</i><br>
+<img src="images/12-3.jpg" alt="No lion has that long and hairy ear!"><br>
+Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk<br>
+Who are not in the secret of the joke,<br>
+With open mouths and eyes<br>
+Stare at old Martin's prize--<br>
+A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.<br>
+<img src="images/12-4.jpg" alt="12-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f13" id="f13"></a><i>The Fox And The Stork.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/13-1.jpg" alt="13-1"><br>
+<br>
+Old Father Fox, who was known to be mean,<br>
+Invited Dame Stork in to dinner.<br>
+There was nothing but soup that could scarcely be seen:--<br>
+Soup <i>never</i> was served any thinner.<br>
+And the worst of it was, as I'm bound to relate,<br>
+Father Fox dished it up on a <i>flat</i> china plate.<br>
+<img src="images/13-2.jpg" alt="13-2"><br>
+Dame Stork, as you know, has a very long beak:<br>
+Not a crumb or drop could she gather<br>
+Had she pecked at the plate every day in the week.<br>
+But as for the Fox--sly old Father:<br>
+With his tongue lapping soup at a scandalous rate,<br>
+He licked up the last bit and polished the plate.<br>
+<br>
+Pretty soon Mistress Stork spread a feast of her own;<br>
+Father Fox was invited to share it.<br>
+He came, and he saw, and he gave a great groan:<br>
+The stork had known how to prepare it.<br>
+She had meant to get even, and now was <i>her</i> turn:<br>
+Father Fox was invited <i>to eat from an urn.</i><br>
+<img src="images/13-3.jpg" alt="Father Fox was invited to eat from an urn."><br>
+The urn's mouth was small, and it had a long neck;<br>
+The food in it smelled most delightful.<br>
+Dame Stork, with her beak in, proceeded to peck;<br>
+But the Fox found that fasting is frightful.<br>
+Home he sneaked. On his way there he felt his ears burn<br>
+When he thought of the Stork and her tall, tricky urn.<br>
+<img src="images/13-4.jpg" alt="13-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f14" id="f14"></a><i>The Monkey And The Cat.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/14-1.jpg" alt="14-1"><br>
+<br>
+Jocko the Monkey, Mouser--his chum, the Cat,<br>
+Had the same master. Both were sleek and fat,<br>
+And mischievous. If anything went wrong,<br>
+The neighbors where not blamed. Be sure of <i>that.</i><br>
+<br>
+Jocko, 'tis said was something of a thief;<br>
+Mouser, if truth be told, would just as lief<br>
+Much stolen cheese as chase the midnight mouse.<br>
+The praise bestowed on <i>either</i> must be brief.<br>
+<br>
+One day these rogues, stretched flat before the fire,<br>
+Saw chestnuts roassting. "Ah! Could we conspire<br>
+To jerk them out," said Jocko, "from the coals,<br>
+We'd smash the shells and have our heart's desire.<br>
+<img src="images/14-2.jpg" alt="14-2"><br>
+"Come, Brother Mouser! This day 'tis your turn<br>
+To do some bold and desperate thing to earn<br>
+A reputation. You, who are so quick,<br>
+Snatch out the nuts before they start to burn.<br>
+<br>
+"Alas! That I, a Monkey, was not made<br>
+To play with fire. But <i>you</i> are not afraid."<br>
+So Mouser--pleased, like many a cat or man,<br>
+With pretty words--sly Jocko's wish obeyed.<br>
+<br>
+Into the fire he put a practiced paw:<br>
+Out came a chestnut clinging to his claw--<br>
+Another and another. As they dropped<br>
+Jocko devoured them, whether roast or raw.<br>
+<img src="images/14-3.jpg" alt="So Mouser--pleased--sly Joko's wish obeyed."><br>
+A servant enters. Off the robbers run.<br>
+Jocko, you may be sure, enjoyed the fun.<br>
+But Mouser's paw is sadly singed--for what?<br>
+Just to get nuts for Jocko. <i>He</i> got none.<br>
+<img src="images/14-4.jpg" alt="14-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f15" id="f15"></a><i>The Hare And The Tortoise.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/15-1.jpg" alt="I'll run you a race if you dare."><br>
+<br>
+Said the Tortoise one day to the Hare:<br>
+"I'll run you a race if you dare.<br>
+I'll bet you cannot<br>
+Arrive at that spot<br>
+As quickly as <i>I</i> can get there."<br>
+<br>
+Quoth the Hare: "You are surely insane.<br>
+Pray, <i>what</i> has affected your brain?<br>
+You seem pretty sick.<br>
+Call a doctor in--quick,<br>
+And let him prescribe for your pain."<br>
+<br>
+"Never mind," said the Tortoise. "Let's run!<br>
+Will you bet me?" "Why, certainly." "Done!"<br>
+While the slow Tortoise creeps<br>
+Mr. Hare makes four leaps,<br>
+And then loafs around in the sun.<br>
+<br>
+It seemed such a one-sided race,<br>
+To win was almost a disgrace.<br>
+So he frolicked about<br>
+Then at last he set out--<br>
+As the Tortoise was as nearing the place.<br>
+<img src="images/15-2.jpg" alt="15-2"><br>
+Too late! Though he sped like a dart,<br>
+The Tortoise was first. She was smart:<br>
+"You can surely run fast,"<br>
+She remarked. "Yet you're last.<br>
+It is better to get a good start."<br>
+<img src="images/15-3.jpg" alt="15-3"><br>
+<img src="images/15-4.jpg" alt="15-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f16" id="f16"></a><i>The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/16-1.jpg" alt="I'm known as a Heron as such, I live high."><br>
+<br>
+A long-legged Heron, with long neck and beak,<br>
+Set out for a stroll by the bank of a creek.<br>
+So clear was the water that if you looked sharp<br>
+You could see the pike caper around with the carp.<br>
+The Heron might quickly have speared enough fish<br>
+To make for his dinner a capital dish.<br>
+But he was a very particular bird:<br>
+His food fixed "just so," at the hours he preferred.<br>
+And hence he decided 'twas better to wait,<br>
+Since his appetite grew when he supped rather late.<br>
+Pretty soon he was hungry, and stalked to the bank.<br>
+Where some pondfish were leaping--a fish of low rank.<br>
+"Bah, Bah!" said the Bird. "Sup on these? No--not I.<br>
+I'm known as a Heron: as such I live high."<br>
+Then some gudgeon swam past that were tempting to see,<br>
+But the Heron said hautily: "No--not for <i>me.</i><br>
+For those I'd not bother to open my beak,<br>
+If I had to hang 'round come next Friday a week."<br>
+Thus bragged the big Bird. But he's bound to confess<br>
+That he opened his elegant beak for much less.<br>
+<i>Not another fish came.</i> When he found all else fail,<br>
+He was happy to happen upon a fat snail.<br>
+<img src="images/16-2.jpg" alt="16-2"><br>
+<img src="images/16-3.jpg" alt="16-3"><br>
+<img src="images/16-4.jpg" alt="16-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f17" id="f17"></a><i>The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/17-1.jpg" alt="17-1"><br>
+<br>
+An Eagle swooped from out the sky,<br>
+And carried off a sheep.<br>
+A Raven seeing him, said: "I<br>
+Could do that too if I should try.<br>
+His meal comes mighty cheap."<br>
+<br>
+Of all that well-fed flock was one<br>
+As fat as fat could be.<br>
+The Raven rose, and lit upon<br>
+Her back. She seemed to weigh a ton--<br>
+So very fat was she.<br>
+<img src="images/17-2.jpg" alt="17-2"><br>
+And, oh! Her wool was wondrous thick:<br>
+It would have made a mat.<br>
+The Raven's claws are caught, and stick!<br>
+He's played himself a pretty trick--<br>
+To fly with one so fat.<br>
+<img src="images/17-3.jpg" alt="The Raven's claws are caught, and stick."><br>
+"Ba, ba!" "Caw, caw!" cry bird and beast.<br>
+The shepherd comes at last:<br>
+Sir Raven who would find a feast<br>
+Is from the woolly one released,<br>
+And in a cage kept fast.<br>
+<img src="images/17-4.jpg" alt="17-4">
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+&nbsp;
+<h2><a name="f18" id="f18"></a><i>The Miller, His Son And The Ass.</i></h2>
+
+<img src="images/18-1.jpg" alt="The way that they started made everyone stare."><br>
+<br>
+A Miller and Son once set out for the fair,<br>
+To sell a fine ass they had brought up with care;<br>
+And the way that they started made everyone stare.<br>
+<br>
+To keep the Ass fresh, so the beast would sell dear<br>
+On a pole they slung him. It surely seemed queer:<br>
+He looked, with heels up, like some huge chandelier.<br>
+<br>
+One person who passed them cried out in great glee.<br>
+"Was there anything ever so silly?" said he.<br>
+"Can you guess who the greatest Ass is of those three?"<br>
+<br>
+The Miller at once put the brute on the ground;<br>
+And the Ass, who had liked to ride t'other way round,<br>
+Complained in language of curious sound.<br>
+<br>
+No matter. The Miller now made his Son ride,<br>
+While he followed after or walked alongside.<br>
+Then up came three merchants. The eldest one cried;<br>
+<br>
+"Get down there, young fellow! I never did see<br>
+Such manners:--a gray-beard walks where <i>you</i> should be.<br>
+He should ride, you should follow. Just take that from <i>me!"</i><br>
+<br>
+"Dear Sirs," quoth the Miller, "I'd see you content."<br>
+He climbed to the saddle; on foot the boy went...<br>
+Three girls passed. Said one: "Do you see that old Gent?<br>
+There he sits, like a bishop. I say it's a shame,<br>
+While that boy trudging after seems more than half lame."<br>
+"Little girl," said the Miller, "go back whence you came."<br>
+<br>
+Yet this young creature so worked on his mind<br>
+That he wanted no woman to call him unkind:<br>
+And he said to his Son: "Seat yourself here--behind."<br>
+<img src="images/18-2.jpg" alt="18-2"><br>
+With the Ass bearing double they jogged on again,<br>
+And once more met a critic, who said: "It is plain<br>
+Only dunces would give their poor donkey such pain.<br>
+<br>
+He will die with their weight: it's a shame and a sin.<br>
+For their faithful servant they care not a pin.<br>
+They'll have nothing to sell at the fair but <i>his skin."</i><br>
+<br>
+"Dear me!" said the Miller, "what <i>am</i> I to do?<br>
+Must I suit the whole world and the world's father, too?<br>
+Yet it must end <i>some</i> time--so I'll see the thing through."<br>
+<br>
+Both Father and Son now decided to walk,<br>
+While the Ass marched in front with a strut and a stalk;<br>
+Yet the people who passed them continued to talk.<br>
+<br>
+Said one to another: "Look there, if you please,<br>
+How they wear out their shoes, while their Ass takes his ease.<br>
+Were there ever, d'ye think, three such asses as these?"<br>
+Said the Miller: "You're right. I'm an Ass! It is true.<br>
+Too long have I listened to people like you.<br>
+But now I am done with the whole kit and crew.<br>
+<br>
+"Let them blame me or praise me, keep silent or yell,<br>
+My goings and comings they cannot compel.<br>
+I will do as I please!"...So he did--and did well.<br>
+<img src="images/18-3.jpg" alt="18-3">
+<br>
+<hr class="narrow">
+<br>
+&nbsp;
+&nbsp;
+<hr class="full" noshade>
+</center>
+<p>***END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks***<br></p>
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+Project Gutenberg's Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, by Jean de La Fontaine
+
+This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
+almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or
+re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
+with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
+
+
+Title: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
+       From the French of La Fontaine
+
+Author: Jean de La Fontaine
+
+Illustrator: John Rae
+
+Translator: W.T. (William Trowbridge) Larned
+
+Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24108]
+
+Language: English
+
+Character set encoding: ASCII
+
+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FABLES IN RHYME FOR LITTLE FOLKS ***
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+FABLES IN RHYME FOR LITTLE FOLKS,
+
+Adapted from the French of La Fontaine.
+
+Written by,
+W. T. Larned
+
+Illustrated by,
+John Rae.
+
+E-Book Created by Tyler Anderson,
+as a birthday present to little
+Johnny James Webb, on his first Birthday.
+I've arranged the images so they fit the story.
+
+To All Little Americans
+With The Hope That
+They May Become Better Acquainted
+With
+Our Friends, The French.
+
+
+
+A Preface For Parents
+
+La Fontaine composed the most entertaining Fables ever
+written in any language, and made them a model of literary
+perfection; yet our translators and compilers have somehow
+neglected him. His Fables are lyric poetry of a high order,
+and this alone has doubtless been a barrier to a better
+acquaintance with his work when transferred to our own
+tongue. Done into prose, the Fables are no longer
+La Fontaine, but take their place with the many
+respectable, dull translations which English readers try to
+admire because they are classics--though the soul that
+made them such has been separated from the dead body.
+
+It has seemed to me that while the full enjoyment of
+La Fontaine must always be reserved for those who can
+read him in French, it might be possible at least to convey
+something of his originality and blithe spirit through the
+medium of light verse. In making the attempt I am fully
+aware of my temerity, and the criticism it will invite. To
+excuse the one and to meet the other I have taken refuge
+in the term "adaptation"--even though the word applies
+only in part to my paraphrases. Some of the Fables in
+this book are translations in a true sense, and keep
+closely to the text. From others I have erased such
+political, mythological and literary allusions (in which
+La Fontaine abounds) as are either obsolete or
+unintelligible to a child.
+
+But my chief literary sin--if sin it be--is twofold. In the first
+place I have departed wholly from the metrical arrangements
+of the originals--substituting therefore a variety of forms in
+line and stanza that more accord with the modern and
+American ear. In the second place I have had the
+hardihood--as in "The Lion and The Gnat"--to modify the
+elegance of the original with phrases more appropriate to
+our contemporary beasts. Animal talk, I feel sure, has lost
+something of its stateliness since the days when our
+French author overheard it. The Owl is no less pedantic
+perhaps, but the Lion certainly has declined in
+majesty--along with our human kings.
+
+For these offenses, La Fontaine--who forgave everyone--is
+bound to forgive me. The most good-humored Frenchmen,
+he could condone all faults but dullness. That offense
+against French fundamental principles invariably put him
+to sleep--whether the bore who button-holed him was a
+savant of the Sorbonne or just an ordinary ass.
+
+One thing more. This little collection from his 240 Fables is
+meant, first of all, for children. In assembling it no Fable
+was admitted that has not been approved by generations
+of the young and old. No apologue addressed to the
+mature intelligence alone, or framed to fit the society
+of his day, is here included.
+
+Many books which men have agreed to call classics are
+seldom taken down from the shelves. It is otherwise with
+La Fontaine. His Fables were eagerly read by the great
+men and women of his time, and are still read and
+enjoyed all the world over.
+
+The causes of this lasting popularity are not obscure. From
+the earliest period--whether in India, Greece, Arabia or
+Rome--the Fable has pleased and instructed mankind. It
+told important truths, easily perceived, in an entertaining
+way; and often said more in a few words than could be
+said through any other kind of writing. Now, no one person
+is the author of the Fables we know so well. Aesop did not
+write the Fables bearing his name. There is even reason to
+believe that Aesop is himself a Fable. At any rate, the
+things ascribed to him are the work of many hands, and
+have undergone many changes. These old stories of
+animals began to be written so long ago, and the history
+of them is so vague and confusing, that only in recent
+years have scholars at last been able to trace them, and
+to fix their authorship.
+
+The significant thing to keep in mind is that, for twentieth
+century readers, the best Fables are not merely the best
+ones ever written, but the best ones re-written. In other
+words, the Fable was for centuries an old story in a rough
+state, and the writers who have made it most interesting
+are the writers who told it over again in a manner that
+makes it Art. A Greek named Babrius, of whom almost
+nothing is known, is remembered because he collected
+and versified some of the so-called Fables of Aesop. A
+Roman slave named Phaedrus also put these Fables
+into Latin verse; and his work to-day is a text book in
+our colleges.
+
+Among modern writers, it was reserved for La Fontaine to
+take these ancient themes and make them his own--just
+as Moliere, "taking his own wherever he found it," borrowed
+freely from the classics for his greatest plays; just as
+Shakespeare re-formed forgotten tales with the glow and
+splendor of surpassing genius, so La Fontaine turned to
+India, Greece, Italy, and furnishing the old Fables and
+facetious tales, refreshed them with his originality. Some
+of them were his own inventions, but for the most part
+they were "Aesop" and Phaedrus, made over by poetic
+art and vivified with a wit and humor characteristically
+French.
+
+But if La Fontaine's fame endures, it is not alone that he
+was the greatest lyric poet of a great literary period.
+Apart from the wit and fancy of his creations--apart from
+the philosophy, wisdom, and knowledge of human nature
+that so delighted Moliere, Boileau and Racine--his Fables
+disclose the goodness and simplicity of one who lived
+much with Nature, and cared nothing for the false
+splendors of the court. Living most of his life in the
+country, the woods, and streams and fields had been a
+constant source of inspiration. He saw animals through
+the eyes of a naturalist and poet; and when he came to
+make them talk, the little fishes "talked like little
+fishes--not like whales". With Shakespeare's banished
+Frenchman in the Forest of Arden, he
+Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
+Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
+
+An anecdote often told of him aptly illustrates his habit
+of mind. He was late in coming to a fashionable dinner,
+and his excuse was this:
+"I hope you will pardon me," he said. "I was detained at
+the funeral of an ant, and I could not come until the
+ceremony was over."
+
+This was not a pleasantry, but the truth. He had been
+watching an ant-hill, and was so absorbed in observing
+a dead ant carried off by the living colonists for burial
+that he had forgotten his engagement.
+
+The first six volumes of the Fables--published in 1668,
+when he was 47, and in Paris--were an immediate and
+brilliant success, at a time when French genius was in
+full flower. But the literary men of that golden age got
+their pecuniary reward not from the public, but from
+patrons. Later in life, when La Fontaine at last was
+graciously recognized by the grand monarch, he
+appeared before the royal presence to receive his due.
+Even then, with his usual absentmindedness, he forgot
+to bring the book he was to present, and left behind him
+in the carriage the purse of gold the King bestowed
+upon him.
+
+However, the Fables brought him much in fame and
+friendship. Everybody loved La Fontaine. Favorite of great
+lords and ladies, the court of Louis XIV could not make
+him otherwise than natural. Poor and improvident, poverty
+had no pangs for him. No sorrow ever gave him a
+sleepless hour. To the last he lived up to his
+nickname--Bon-homme. And it is the gentle and good
+man who is always looking out at us at us from the
+fables he refashioned for all time.
+
+William Trowbridge Larned.
+New York, July 1918.
+
+
+
+This book contains the following Fables
+from the French of La Fontaine:
+
+The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.
+The Grasshopper And The Ant.
+The Cat And The Fox.
+The Hen With The Golden Eggs.
+The Dog And His Image.
+The Acorn And The Pumpkin.
+The Raven And The Fox.
+The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.
+The Lion And The Gnat.
+The Dove And The Ant.
+The Fox And The Grapes.
+The Ass In The Lion's Skin.
+The Fox And The Stork.
+The Monkey And The Cat.
+The Hare And The Tortoise.
+The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.
+The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.
+The Miller, His Son And The Ass.
+
+
+
+The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.
+
+There was a little Fog
+Whose home was in a bog,
+And he worried 'cause he wasn't big enough.
+He sees an ox and cries:
+"That's just about my size,
+If I stretch myself--Say Sister, see me puff!"
+
+So he blew, blew, blew,
+Saying: "Sister, will that do?"
+But she shook her head. And then he lost his wits.
+For he stretched and puffed again
+Till he cracked beneath the strain,
+And burst, and flew about in little bits.
+
+
+
+The Grasshopper And The Ant.
+
+The Grasshopper, singing
+All summer long,
+Now found winter stinging,
+And ceased in his song.
+Not a morsel or crumb in his cupboard--
+So he shivered, and ceased in his song.
+
+Miss Ant was his neighbor;
+To her he went:
+"O, you're rich from labor,
+And I've not a cent.
+Lend me food, and I vow I'll return it,
+Though at present I have not a cent."
+
+The Ant's not a lender,
+I must confess.
+Her heart's far from tender
+To one in distress.
+So she said: "Pray, how passed you the summer,
+That in winter you come to distress?"
+
+"I sang through the summer,"
+Grasshopper said.
+"But now I am glummer
+Because I've no bread."
+"So you sang!" sneered the Ant. "That relieves me.
+Now it's winter--go dance for your bread!"
+
+
+
+The Cat And The Fox.
+
+The Cat and the Fox once took a walk together,
+Sharpening their wits with talk about the weather
+And as their walking sharpened appetite, too;
+They also took some things they had no right to.
+Cream, that is so delicious when it thickens,
+Pleased the Cat best. The Fox liked little chickens.
+
+With stomachs filled, they presently grew prouder,
+And each began to try to talk the louder--
+Bragging about his skill, and strength, and cunning.
+"Pooh!" said the Fox. "You ought to see me running.
+Besides, I have a hundred tricks. You Cat, you!
+What can you do when Mr. Dog comes at you?"
+"To tell the truth," the Cat said, "though it grieve me
+I've but one trick. Yet that's enough--believe me!"
+
+There came a pack of fox-hounds--yelping, baying.
+"Pardon me", said the Cat. "I can't be staying.
+This is my trick." And up a tree he scurried,
+Leaving the Fox below a trifle worried.
+
+In vain he tried his hundred tricks and ruses
+(The sort of thing that Mr. Dog confuses)--
+Doubling, and seeking one hole, then another--
+Smoked out of each until he thought he'd smother.
+At last as he once more came out of cover,
+Two nimble dogs pounced on him--All was over!
+
+
+
+The Hen With The Golden Eggs.
+
+To this lesson in greed,
+Pray, little ones, heed:
+
+Each day, we are told,
+A most wonderful Hen
+Laid an egg made of gold
+For this meanest of men.
+
+So greedy was he,
+He was not satisfied.
+"What is one egg to me?
+I want all that' inside!"
+
+He cut off her head,
+And began to explore.
+But the poor hen was dead.
+And could lay eggs no more.
+
+
+
+The Dog And His Image.
+
+A foolish Dog, who carried in his jaw
+A juicy bone,
+Looked down into a stream, and there he saw
+Another one,
+Splash! In he plunged.. The image disappeared--
+The meat he had was gone.
+Indeed, he nearly sank,
+And barely reached the bank.
+
+
+
+The Acorn and the Pumpkin.
+
+Once there was a country bumpkin
+Who observed a great big pumpkin
+To a slender stem attached;
+While upon an oak tree nourished,
+Little acorns grew and flourished.
+"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."
+
+"If, despite my humble station,
+I'd a hand in this Creation,
+Pumpkins on the oaks would be;
+And the acorn, light and little,
+On this pumpkin stem so brittle
+Would be placed by clever Me."
+
+Then, fatigued with so much thought, he
+Rest beneath the oak tree sought. He
+Soon in slumber found repose
+But, alas! An acorn, falling
+On the spot where he lay sprawling,
+Hit him--plump!--Upon the nose.
+
+Up he jumped--a wiser bumpkin.
+"Gosh!" he said. "Suppose a pumpkin
+Came a-fallin' on my face!
+After all, if I had made things,
+I'll allow that I'm afraid things
+Might be some what out of place."
+
+
+
+The Raven And The Fox.
+
+Mr. Raven was perched upon a limb,
+And Reynard the Fox looked up at him;
+For the Raven held in his great big beak
+A morsel the Fox would go far to seek.
+
+Said the Fox, in admiring tones: "My word!
+Sir Raven, you are a handsome bird.
+Such feathers! If you would only sing,
+The birds of these woods would call you King."
+
+The Raven, who did not see the joke,
+Forgot that his voice was just a croak.
+He opened his beak, in his foolish pride--
+And down fell the morsel the Fox had spied.
+
+"Ha-ha!" said the Fox. "And now you see
+You should not listen to flattery.
+Vanity, Sir is a horrid vice--
+I'm sure the lesson is worth the price."
+
+
+
+The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.
+
+A City Mouse, with ways polite,
+A Country Mouse invited
+To sup with him and spend the night.
+Said Country Mouse: "De--lighted!"
+In truth it proved a royal treat,
+With everything that's good to eat.
+
+Alas! When they had just begun
+To gobble their dinner,
+A knock was heard that made them run.
+The City Mouse seemed thinner.
+And as they scampered and turned tail,
+He saw the Country Mouse grow pale.
+
+The knocking ceased. A false alarm!
+The City Mouse grew braver.
+"Come back!" he cried. "No, no! The farm,
+Where I'll not quake or quaver,
+Suits me," replied the Country Mouse.
+"You're welcome to your city house."
+
+
+
+The Lion And The Gnat.
+
+
+The Lion once said to the Gnat: "You brat,
+Clear out just as quick as you can, now--s'cat!
+If you meddle with me
+I will not guarantee
+That you won't be slammed perfectly flat--
+D'ye see?"
+
+Said the Gnat: "Because you're called King--you
+thing!--
+You fancy that you will make me take wing.
+Why, an ox weighs much more,
+Yet I drive him before
+When I get good and ready to sting.
+Now, roar!"
+
+Then loudly his trumpet he blew. And--whew!
+How fiercely and fast at his foe he flew.
+From the tail to the toes
+He draws blood as he goes.
+Then he starts in to sting and to chew
+His nose.
+
+Sir Lion was mad with the pain. In vain
+He roared and he foamed and he shook his mane.
+All the beasts that were nigh
+Fled in fear from his cry.
+But the Gnat only stung him again--
+In the eye.
+
+He looked and laughed as he saw--Haw, Haw!--
+The Lion self-torn by his tooth and claw,
+So His Majesty's hide
+With his own blood was dyed.
+Said the Gnat: "Shall I serve you up raw--
+Or fried?"
+
+It's finished. The Lion's loud roar is o'er.
+He's bitten and beaten, he's sick and sore.
+But a spider's web spread
+Trapped the Gnat as he sped
+With the news...He will never fight more--
+He's dead!
+
+
+
+The Dove And The Ant.
+
+An Ant who in a brook would drink
+Fell off the bank. He tried
+To swim, and felt his courage sink--
+This ocean seemed so wide.
+But for a dove who flew above
+He would have drowned and died.
+
+The friendly Dove within her beak
+A bridge of grass-stem bore:
+On this the Ant, though worn and weak.
+Contrived to reach the shore
+Said he: "The tact of this kind act
+I'll cherish evermore."
+
+Behold! A barefoot wretch went by
+With slingshot in his hand.
+Said he: "You'll make a pigeon pie
+That will be kind of grand."
+He meant to murder the gentle bird--
+Who did not understand.
+
+The Ant then stung him on the heel
+(So quick to see the sling).
+He turned his head, and missed a meal:
+The pigeon pie took wing.
+And so the Dove lived on to love--
+Beloved by everything.
+
+
+
+The Fox And The Grapes.
+
+Rosy and ripe, and ready to box,
+The grapes hang high o'er the hungry Fox.--
+He pricks up his ears, and his eye he cocks.
+
+Ripe and rosy, yet so high!--
+He gazes at them with a greedy eye,
+And knows he must eat and drink--or die.
+
+When the jump proves to be beyond his power--
+"Pooh!" says the Fox. "Let the pigs devour
+Fruit of that sort. Those grapes are sour!"
+
+
+
+The Ass In The Lion's Skin.
+
+An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed
+Made everybody fear.
+And this was queer,
+Because he was himself afraid.
+Yet everywhere he strayed
+The people ran like deer.
+
+Ah, ah! He is betrayed:
+No lion has that long and hairy ears.
+
+Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk
+Who are not in the secret of the joke,
+With open mouths and eyes
+Stare at old Martin's prize--
+A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.
+
+
+
+The Fox And The Stork.
+
+Old Father Fox, who was known to be mean,
+Invited Dame Stork in to dinner.
+There was nothing but soup that could scarcely be seen:--
+Soup never was served any thinner.
+And the worst of it was, as I'm bound to relate,
+Father Fox dished it up on a flat china plate.
+
+Dame Stork, as you know, has a very long beak:
+Not a crumb or drop could she gather
+Had she pecked at the plate every day in the week.
+But as for the Fox--sly old Father:
+With his tongue lapping soup at a scandalous rate,
+He licked up the last bit and polished the plate.
+
+Pretty soon Mistress Stork spread a feast of her own;
+Father Fox was invited to share it.
+He came, and he saw, and he gave a great groan:
+The stork had known how to prepare it.
+She had meant to get even, and now was her turn:
+Father Fox was invited to eat from an urn.
+
+The urn's mouth was small, and it had a long neck;
+The food in it smelled most delightful.
+Dame Stork, with her beak in, proceeded to peck;
+But the Fox found that fasting is frightful.
+Home he sneaked. On his way there he felt his ears burn
+When he thought of the Stork and her tall, tricky urn.
+
+
+
+The Monkey And The Cat.
+
+Jocko the Monkey, Mouser--his chum, the Cat,
+Had the same master. Both were sleek and fat,
+And mischievous. If anything went wrong,
+The neighbors where not blamed. Be sure of that.
+
+Jocko, 'tis said was something of a thief;
+Mouser, if truth be told, would just as lief
+Much stolen cheese as chase the midnight mouse.
+The praise bestowed on either must be brief.
+
+One day these rogues, stretched flat before the fire,
+Saw chestnuts roassting. "Ah! Could we conspire
+To jerk them out," said Jocko, "from the coals,
+We'd smash the shells and have our heart's desire.
+
+"Come, Brother Mouser! This day 'tis your turn
+To do some bold and desperate thing to earn
+A reputation. You, who are so quick,
+Snatch out the nuts before they start to burn.
+
+"Alas! That I, a Monkey, was not made
+To play with fire. But you are not afraid."
+So Mouser--pleased, like many a cat or man,
+With pretty words--sly Jocko's wish obeyed.
+
+Into the fire he put a practiced paw:
+Out came a chestnut clinging to his claw--
+Another and another. As they dropped
+Jocko devoured them, whether roast or raw.
+
+A servant enters. Off the robbers run.
+Jocko, you may be sure, enjoyed the fun.
+But Mouser's paw is sadly singed--for what?
+Just to get nuts for Jocko. He got none.
+
+
+
+The Hare And The Tortoise.
+
+Said the Tortoise one day to the Hare:
+"I'll run you a race if you dare.
+I'll bet you cannot
+Arrive at that spot
+As quickly as I can get there."
+
+Quoth the Hare: "You are surely insane.
+Pray, what has affected your brain?
+You seem pretty sick.
+Call a doctor in--quick,
+And let him prescribe for your pain."
+
+"Never mind," said the Tortoise. "Let's run!
+Will you bet me?" "Why, certainly." "Done!"
+While the slow Tortoise creeps
+Mr. Hare makes four leaps,
+And then loafs around in the sun.
+
+It seemed such a one-sided race,
+To win was almost a disgrace.
+So he frolicked about
+Then at last he set out--
+As the Tortoise was as nearing the place.
+
+Too late! Though he sped like a dart,
+The Tortoise was first. She was smart:
+"You can surely run fast,"
+She remarked. "Yet you're last.
+It is better to get a good start."
+
+
+
+The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.
+
+A long-legged Heron, with long neck and beak,
+Set out for a stroll by the bank of a creek.
+So clear was the water that if you looked sharp
+You could see the pike caper around with the carp.
+The Heron might quickly have speared enough fish
+To make for his dinner a capital dish.
+But he was a very particular bird:
+His food fixed "just so," at the hours he preferred.
+And hence he decided 'twas better to wait,
+Since his appetite grew when he supped rather late.
+Pretty soon he was hungry, and stalked to the bank.
+Where some pondfish were leaping--a fish of low rank.
+"Bah, Bah!" said the Bird. "Sup on these? No--not I.
+I'm known as a Heron: as such I live high."
+Then some gudgeon swam past that were tempting to see,
+But the Heron said hautily: "No--not for me.
+For those I'd not bother to open my beak,
+If I had to hang 'round come next Friday a week."
+Thus bragged the big Bird. But he's bound to confess
+That he opened his elegant beak for much less.
+Not another fish came. When he found all else fail,
+He was happy to happen upon a fat snail.
+
+
+
+The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.
+
+An Eagle swooped from out the sky,
+And carried off a sheep.
+A Raven seeing him, said: "I
+Could do that too if I should try.
+His meal comes mighty cheap."
+
+Of all that well-fed flock was one
+As fat as fat could be.
+The Raven rose, and lit upon
+Her back. She seemed to weigh a ton--
+So very fat was she.
+
+And, oh! Her wool was wondrous thick:
+It would have made a mat.
+The Raven's claws are caught, and stick!
+He's played himself a pretty trick--
+To fly with one so fat.
+
+"Ba, ba!" "Caw, caw!" cry bird and beast.
+The shepherd comes at last:
+Sir Raven who would find a feast
+Is from the woolly one released,
+And in a cage kept fast.
+
+
+
+The Miller, His Son And The Ass.
+
+A Miller and Son once set out for the fair,
+To sell a fine ass they had brought up with care;
+And the way that they started made everyone stare.
+
+To keep the Ass fresh, so the beast would sell dear
+On a pole they slung him. It surely seemed queer:
+He looked, with heels up, like some huge chandelier.
+
+One person who passed them cried out in great glee.
+"Was there anything ever so silly?" said he.
+"Can you guess who the greatest Ass is of those three?"
+
+The Miller at once put the brute on the ground;
+And the Ass, who had liked to ride t'other way round,
+Complained in language of curious sound.
+
+No matter. The Miller now made his Son ride,
+While he followed after or walked alongside.
+Then up came three merchants. The eldest one cried;
+
+"Get down there, young fellow! I never did see
+Such manners:--a gray-beard walks where you should be.
+He should ride, you should follow. Just take that from me!"
+
+"Dear Sirs," quoth the Miller, "I'd see you content."
+He climbed to the saddle; on foot the boy went...
+Three girls passed. Said one: "Do you see that old Gent?
+There he sits, like a bishop. I say it's a shame,
+While that boy trudging after seems more than half lame."
+"Little girl," said the Miller, "go back whence you came."
+
+Yet this young creature so worked on his mind
+That he wanted no woman to call him unkind:
+And he said to his Son: "Seat yourself here--behind."
+
+With the Ass bearing double they jogged on again,
+And once more met a critic, who said: "It is plain
+Only dunces would give their poor donkey such pain.
+He will die with their weight: it's a shame and a sin.
+For their faithful servant they care not a pin.
+They'll have nothing to sell at the fair but his skin."
+
+"Dear me!" said the Miller, "what am I to do?
+Must I suit the whole world and the world's father, too?
+Yet it must end some time--so I'll see the thing through."
+
+Both Father and Son now decided to walk,
+While the Ass marched in front with a strut and a stalk;
+Yet the people who passed them continued to talk.
+
+Said one to another: "Look there, if you please,
+How they wear out their shoes, while their Ass takes his ease.
+Were there ever, d'ye think, three such asses as these?"
+Said the Miller: "You're right. I'm an Ass! It is true.
+Too long have I listened to people like you.
+But now I am done with the whole kit and crew.
+
+"Let them blame me or praise me, keep silent or yell,
+My goings and comings they cannot compel.
+I will do as I please!"...So he did--and did well.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Project Gutenberg's Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, by Jean de La Fontaine
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+Title: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
+       From the French of La Fontaine
+
+Author: Jean de La Fontaine
+
+Illustrator: John Rae
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+Translator: W.T. (William Trowbridge) Larned
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+Release Date: January 1, 2008 [EBook #24108]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FABLES IN RHYME FOR LITTLE FOLKS ***
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+FABLES IN RHYME FOR LITTLE FOLKS,
+
+Adapted from the French of La Fontaine.
+
+Written by,
+W. T. Larned
+
+Illustrated by,
+John Rae.
+
+E-Book Created by Tyler Anderson,
+as a birthday present to little
+Johnny James Webb, on his first Birthday.
+I've arranged the images so they fit the story.
+
+To All Little Americans
+With The Hope That
+They May Become Better Acquainted
+With
+Our Friends, The French.
+
+
+
+A Preface For Parents
+
+La Fontaine composed the most entertaining Fables ever
+written in any language, and made them a model of literary
+perfection; yet our translators and compilers have somehow
+neglected him. His Fables are lyric poetry of a high order,
+and this alone has doubtless been a barrier to a better
+acquaintance with his work when transferred to our own
+tongue. Done into prose, the Fables are no longer
+La Fontaine, but take their place with the many
+respectable, dull translations which English readers try to
+admire because they are classics--though the soul that
+made them such has been separated from the dead body.
+
+It has seemed to me that while the full enjoyment of
+La Fontaine must always be reserved for those who can
+read him in French, it might be possible at least to convey
+something of his originality and blithe spirit through the
+medium of light verse. In making the attempt I am fully
+aware of my temerity, and the criticism it will invite. To
+excuse the one and to meet the other I have taken refuge
+in the term "adaptation"--even though the word applies
+only in part to my paraphrases. Some of the Fables in
+this book are translations in a true sense, and keep
+closely to the text. From others I have erased such
+political, mythological and literary allusions (in which
+La Fontaine abounds) as are either obsolete or
+unintelligible to a child.
+
+But my chief literary sin--if sin it be--is twofold. In the first
+place I have departed wholly from the metrical arrangements
+of the originals--substituting therefore a variety of forms in
+line and stanza that more accord with the modern and
+American ear. In the second place I have had the
+hardihood--as in "The Lion and The Gnat"--to modify the
+elegance of the original with phrases more appropriate to
+our contemporary beasts. Animal talk, I feel sure, has lost
+something of its stateliness since the days when our
+French author overheard it. The Owl is no less pedantic
+perhaps, but the Lion certainly has declined in
+majesty--along with our human kings.
+
+For these offenses, La Fontaine--who forgave everyone--is
+bound to forgive me. The most good-humored Frenchmen,
+he could condone all faults but dullness. That offense
+against French fundamental principles invariably put him
+to sleep--whether the bore who button-holed him was a
+savant of the Sorbonne or just an ordinary ass.
+
+One thing more. This little collection from his 240 Fables is
+meant, first of all, for children. In assembling it no Fable
+was admitted that has not been approved by generations
+of the young and old. No apologue addressed to the
+mature intelligence alone, or framed to fit the society
+of his day, is here included.
+
+Many books which men have agreed to call classics are
+seldom taken down from the shelves. It is otherwise with
+La Fontaine. His Fables were eagerly read by the great
+men and women of his time, and are still read and
+enjoyed all the world over.
+
+The causes of this lasting popularity are not obscure. From
+the earliest period--whether in India, Greece, Arabia or
+Rome--the Fable has pleased and instructed mankind. It
+told important truths, easily perceived, in an entertaining
+way; and often said more in a few words than could be
+said through any other kind of writing. Now, no one person
+is the author of the Fables we know so well. Aesop did not
+write the Fables bearing his name. There is even reason to
+believe that Aesop is himself a Fable. At any rate, the
+things ascribed to him are the work of many hands, and
+have undergone many changes. These old stories of
+animals began to be written so long ago, and the history
+of them is so vague and confusing, that only in recent
+years have scholars at last been able to trace them, and
+to fix their authorship.
+
+The significant thing to keep in mind is that, for twentieth
+century readers, the best Fables are not merely the best
+ones ever written, but the best ones re-written. In other
+words, the Fable was for centuries an old story in a rough
+state, and the writers who have made it most interesting
+are the writers who told it over again in a manner that
+makes it Art. A Greek named Babrius, of whom almost
+nothing is known, is remembered because he collected
+and versified some of the so-called Fables of Aesop. A
+Roman slave named Phaedrus also put these Fables
+into Latin verse; and his work to-day is a text book in
+our colleges.
+
+Among modern writers, it was reserved for La Fontaine to
+take these ancient themes and make them his own--just
+as Moliere, "taking his own wherever he found it," borrowed
+freely from the classics for his greatest plays; just as
+Shakespeare re-formed forgotten tales with the glow and
+splendor of surpassing genius, so La Fontaine turned to
+India, Greece, Italy, and furnishing the old Fables and
+facetious tales, refreshed them with his originality. Some
+of them were his own inventions, but for the most part
+they were "Aesop" and Phaedrus, made over by poetic
+art and vivified with a wit and humor characteristically
+French.
+
+But if La Fontaine's fame endures, it is not alone that he
+was the greatest lyric poet of a great literary period.
+Apart from the wit and fancy of his creations--apart from
+the philosophy, wisdom, and knowledge of human nature
+that so delighted Moliere, Boileau and Racine--his Fables
+disclose the goodness and simplicity of one who lived
+much with Nature, and cared nothing for the false
+splendors of the court. Living most of his life in the
+country, the woods, and streams and fields had been a
+constant source of inspiration. He saw animals through
+the eyes of a naturalist and poet; and when he came to
+make them talk, the little fishes "talked like little
+fishes--not like whales". With Shakespeare's banished
+Frenchman in the Forest of Arden, he
+Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
+Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
+
+An anecdote often told of him aptly illustrates his habit
+of mind. He was late in coming to a fashionable dinner,
+and his excuse was this:
+"I hope you will pardon me," he said. "I was detained at
+the funeral of an ant, and I could not come until the
+ceremony was over."
+
+This was not a pleasantry, but the truth. He had been
+watching an ant-hill, and was so absorbed in observing
+a dead ant carried off by the living colonists for burial
+that he had forgotten his engagement.
+
+The first six volumes of the Fables--published in 1668,
+when he was 47, and in Paris--were an immediate and
+brilliant success, at a time when French genius was in
+full flower. But the literary men of that golden age got
+their pecuniary reward not from the public, but from
+patrons. Later in life, when La Fontaine at last was
+graciously recognized by the grand monarch, he
+appeared before the royal presence to receive his due.
+Even then, with his usual absentmindedness, he forgot
+to bring the book he was to present, and left behind him
+in the carriage the purse of gold the King bestowed
+upon him.
+
+However, the Fables brought him much in fame and
+friendship. Everybody loved La Fontaine. Favorite of great
+lords and ladies, the court of Louis XIV could not make
+him otherwise than natural. Poor and improvident, poverty
+had no pangs for him. No sorrow ever gave him a
+sleepless hour. To the last he lived up to his
+nickname--Bon-homme. And it is the gentle and good
+man who is always looking out at us at us from the
+fables he refashioned for all time.
+
+William Trowbridge Larned.
+New York, July 1918.
+
+
+
+This book contains the following Fables
+from the French of La Fontaine:
+
+The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.
+The Grasshopper And The Ant.
+The Cat And The Fox.
+The Hen With The Golden Eggs.
+The Dog And His Image.
+The Acorn And The Pumpkin.
+The Raven And The Fox.
+The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.
+The Lion And The Gnat.
+The Dove And The Ant.
+The Fox And The Grapes.
+The Ass In The Lion's Skin.
+The Fox And The Stork.
+The Monkey And The Cat.
+The Hare And The Tortoise.
+The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.
+The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.
+The Miller, His Son And The Ass.
+
+
+
+The Frog Who Wished To Be As Big As The Ox.
+
+There was a little Fog
+Whose home was in a bog,
+And he worried 'cause he wasn't big enough.
+He sees an ox and cries:
+"That's just about my size,
+If I stretch myself--Say Sister, see me puff!"
+
+So he blew, blew, blew,
+Saying: "Sister, will that do?"
+But she shook her head. And then he lost his wits.
+For he stretched and puffed again
+Till he cracked beneath the strain,
+And burst, and flew about in little bits.
+
+
+
+The Grasshopper And The Ant.
+
+The Grasshopper, singing
+All summer long,
+Now found winter stinging,
+And ceased in his song.
+Not a morsel or crumb in his cupboard--
+So he shivered, and ceased in his song.
+
+Miss Ant was his neighbor;
+To her he went:
+"O, you're rich from labor,
+And I've not a cent.
+Lend me food, and I vow I'll return it,
+Though at present I have not a cent."
+
+The Ant's not a lender,
+I must confess.
+Her heart's far from tender
+To one in distress.
+So she said: "Pray, how passed you the summer,
+That in winter you come to distress?"
+
+"I sang through the summer,"
+Grasshopper said.
+"But now I am glummer
+Because I've no bread."
+"So you sang!" sneered the Ant. "That relieves me.
+Now it's winter--go dance for your bread!"
+
+
+
+The Cat And The Fox.
+
+The Cat and the Fox once took a walk together,
+Sharpening their wits with talk about the weather
+And as their walking sharpened appetite, too;
+They also took some things they had no right to.
+Cream, that is so delicious when it thickens,
+Pleased the Cat best. The Fox liked little chickens.
+
+With stomachs filled, they presently grew prouder,
+And each began to try to talk the louder--
+Bragging about his skill, and strength, and cunning.
+"Pooh!" said the Fox. "You ought to see me running.
+Besides, I have a hundred tricks. You Cat, you!
+What can you do when Mr. Dog comes at you?"
+"To tell the truth," the Cat said, "though it grieve me
+I've but one trick. Yet that's enough--believe me!"
+
+There came a pack of fox-hounds--yelping, baying.
+"Pardon me", said the Cat. "I can't be staying.
+This is my trick." And up a tree he scurried,
+Leaving the Fox below a trifle worried.
+
+In vain he tried his hundred tricks and ruses
+(The sort of thing that Mr. Dog confuses)--
+Doubling, and seeking one hole, then another--
+Smoked out of each until he thought he'd smother.
+At last as he once more came out of cover,
+Two nimble dogs pounced on him--All was over!
+
+
+
+The Hen With The Golden Eggs.
+
+To this lesson in greed,
+Pray, little ones, heed:
+
+Each day, we are told,
+A most wonderful Hen
+Laid an egg made of gold
+For this meanest of men.
+
+So greedy was he,
+He was not satisfied.
+"What is one egg to me?
+I want all that' inside!"
+
+He cut off her head,
+And began to explore.
+But the poor hen was dead.
+And could lay eggs no more.
+
+
+
+The Dog And His Image.
+
+A foolish Dog, who carried in his jaw
+A juicy bone,
+Looked down into a stream, and there he saw
+Another one,
+Splash! In he plunged.. The image disappeared--
+The meat he had was gone.
+Indeed, he nearly sank,
+And barely reached the bank.
+
+
+
+The Acorn and the Pumpkin.
+
+Once there was a country bumpkin
+Who observed a great big pumpkin
+To a slender stem attached;
+While upon an oak tree nourished,
+Little acorns grew and flourished.
+"Bah!" said he. "That's badly matched."
+
+"If, despite my humble station,
+I'd a hand in this Creation,
+Pumpkins on the oaks would be;
+And the acorn, light and little,
+On this pumpkin stem so brittle
+Would be placed by clever Me."
+
+Then, fatigued with so much thought, he
+Rest beneath the oak tree sought. He
+Soon in slumber found repose
+But, alas! An acorn, falling
+On the spot where he lay sprawling,
+Hit him--plump!--Upon the nose.
+
+Up he jumped--a wiser bumpkin.
+"Gosh!" he said. "Suppose a pumpkin
+Came a-fallin' on my face!
+After all, if I had made things,
+I'll allow that I'm afraid things
+Might be some what out of place."
+
+
+
+The Raven And The Fox.
+
+Mr. Raven was perched upon a limb,
+And Reynard the Fox looked up at him;
+For the Raven held in his great big beak
+A morsel the Fox would go far to seek.
+
+Said the Fox, in admiring tones: "My word!
+Sir Raven, you are a handsome bird.
+Such feathers! If you would only sing,
+The birds of these woods would call you King."
+
+The Raven, who did not see the joke,
+Forgot that his voice was just a croak.
+He opened his beak, in his foolish pride--
+And down fell the morsel the Fox had spied.
+
+"Ha-ha!" said the Fox. "And now you see
+You should not listen to flattery.
+Vanity, Sir is a horrid vice--
+I'm sure the lesson is worth the price."
+
+
+
+The City Mouse And The Country Mouse.
+
+A City Mouse, with ways polite,
+A Country Mouse invited
+To sup with him and spend the night.
+Said Country Mouse: "De--lighted!"
+In truth it proved a royal treat,
+With everything that's good to eat.
+
+Alas! When they had just begun
+To gobble their dinner,
+A knock was heard that made them run.
+The City Mouse seemed thinner.
+And as they scampered and turned tail,
+He saw the Country Mouse grow pale.
+
+The knocking ceased. A false alarm!
+The City Mouse grew braver.
+"Come back!" he cried. "No, no! The farm,
+Where I'll not quake or quaver,
+Suits me," replied the Country Mouse.
+"You're welcome to your city house."
+
+
+
+The Lion And The Gnat.
+
+
+The Lion once said to the Gnat: "You brat,
+Clear out just as quick as you can, now--s'cat!
+If you meddle with me
+I will not guarantee
+That you won't be slammed perfectly flat--
+D'ye see?"
+
+Said the Gnat: "Because you're called King--you
+thing!--
+You fancy that you will make me take wing.
+Why, an ox weighs much more,
+Yet I drive him before
+When I get good and ready to sting.
+Now, roar!"
+
+Then loudly his trumpet he blew. And--whew!
+How fiercely and fast at his foe he flew.
+From the tail to the toes
+He draws blood as he goes.
+Then he starts in to sting and to chew
+His nose.
+
+Sir Lion was mad with the pain. In vain
+He roared and he foamed and he shook his mane.
+All the beasts that were nigh
+Fled in fear from his cry.
+But the Gnat only stung him again--
+In the eye.
+
+He looked and laughed as he saw--Haw, Haw!--
+The Lion self-torn by his tooth and claw,
+So His Majesty's hide
+With his own blood was dyed.
+Said the Gnat: "Shall I serve you up raw--
+Or fried?"
+
+It's finished. The Lion's loud roar is o'er.
+He's bitten and beaten, he's sick and sore.
+But a spider's web spread
+Trapped the Gnat as he sped
+With the news...He will never fight more--
+He's dead!
+
+
+
+The Dove And The Ant.
+
+An Ant who in a brook would drink
+Fell off the bank. He tried
+To swim, and felt his courage sink--
+This ocean seemed so wide.
+But for a dove who flew above
+He would have drowned and died.
+
+The friendly Dove within her beak
+A bridge of grass-stem bore:
+On this the Ant, though worn and weak.
+Contrived to reach the shore
+Said he: "The tact of this kind act
+I'll cherish evermore."
+
+Behold! A barefoot wretch went by
+With slingshot in his hand.
+Said he: "You'll make a pigeon pie
+That will be kind of grand."
+He meant to murder the gentle bird--
+Who did not understand.
+
+The Ant then stung him on the heel
+(So quick to see the sling).
+He turned his head, and missed a meal:
+The pigeon pie took wing.
+And so the Dove lived on to love--
+Beloved by everything.
+
+
+
+The Fox And The Grapes.
+
+Rosy and ripe, and ready to box,
+The grapes hang high o'er the hungry Fox.--
+He pricks up his ears, and his eye he cocks.
+
+Ripe and rosy, yet so high!--
+He gazes at them with a greedy eye,
+And knows he must eat and drink--or die.
+
+When the jump proves to be beyond his power--
+"Pooh!" says the Fox. "Let the pigs devour
+Fruit of that sort. Those grapes are sour!"
+
+
+
+The Ass In The Lion's Skin.
+
+An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed
+Made everybody fear.
+And this was queer,
+Because he was himself afraid.
+Yet everywhere he strayed
+The people ran like deer.
+
+Ah, ah! He is betrayed:
+No lion has that long and hairy ears.
+
+Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk
+Who are not in the secret of the joke,
+With open mouths and eyes
+Stare at old Martin's prize--
+A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.
+
+
+
+The Fox And The Stork.
+
+Old Father Fox, who was known to be mean,
+Invited Dame Stork in to dinner.
+There was nothing but soup that could scarcely be seen:--
+Soup never was served any thinner.
+And the worst of it was, as I'm bound to relate,
+Father Fox dished it up on a flat china plate.
+
+Dame Stork, as you know, has a very long beak:
+Not a crumb or drop could she gather
+Had she pecked at the plate every day in the week.
+But as for the Fox--sly old Father:
+With his tongue lapping soup at a scandalous rate,
+He licked up the last bit and polished the plate.
+
+Pretty soon Mistress Stork spread a feast of her own;
+Father Fox was invited to share it.
+He came, and he saw, and he gave a great groan:
+The stork had known how to prepare it.
+She had meant to get even, and now was her turn:
+Father Fox was invited to eat from an urn.
+
+The urn's mouth was small, and it had a long neck;
+The food in it smelled most delightful.
+Dame Stork, with her beak in, proceeded to peck;
+But the Fox found that fasting is frightful.
+Home he sneaked. On his way there he felt his ears burn
+When he thought of the Stork and her tall, tricky urn.
+
+
+
+The Monkey And The Cat.
+
+Jocko the Monkey, Mouser--his chum, the Cat,
+Had the same master. Both were sleek and fat,
+And mischievous. If anything went wrong,
+The neighbors where not blamed. Be sure of that.
+
+Jocko, 'tis said was something of a thief;
+Mouser, if truth be told, would just as lief
+Much stolen cheese as chase the midnight mouse.
+The praise bestowed on either must be brief.
+
+One day these rogues, stretched flat before the fire,
+Saw chestnuts roassting. "Ah! Could we conspire
+To jerk them out," said Jocko, "from the coals,
+We'd smash the shells and have our heart's desire.
+
+"Come, Brother Mouser! This day 'tis your turn
+To do some bold and desperate thing to earn
+A reputation. You, who are so quick,
+Snatch out the nuts before they start to burn.
+
+"Alas! That I, a Monkey, was not made
+To play with fire. But you are not afraid."
+So Mouser--pleased, like many a cat or man,
+With pretty words--sly Jocko's wish obeyed.
+
+Into the fire he put a practiced paw:
+Out came a chestnut clinging to his claw--
+Another and another. As they dropped
+Jocko devoured them, whether roast or raw.
+
+A servant enters. Off the robbers run.
+Jocko, you may be sure, enjoyed the fun.
+But Mouser's paw is sadly singed--for what?
+Just to get nuts for Jocko. He got none.
+
+
+
+The Hare And The Tortoise.
+
+Said the Tortoise one day to the Hare:
+"I'll run you a race if you dare.
+I'll bet you cannot
+Arrive at that spot
+As quickly as I can get there."
+
+Quoth the Hare: "You are surely insane.
+Pray, what has affected your brain?
+You seem pretty sick.
+Call a doctor in--quick,
+And let him prescribe for your pain."
+
+"Never mind," said the Tortoise. "Let's run!
+Will you bet me?" "Why, certainly." "Done!"
+While the slow Tortoise creeps
+Mr. Hare makes four leaps,
+And then loafs around in the sun.
+
+It seemed such a one-sided race,
+To win was almost a disgrace.
+So he frolicked about
+Then at last he set out--
+As the Tortoise was as nearing the place.
+
+Too late! Though he sped like a dart,
+The Tortoise was first. She was smart:
+"You can surely run fast,"
+She remarked. "Yet you're last.
+It is better to get a good start."
+
+
+
+The Heron Who Was Hard To Please.
+
+A long-legged Heron, with long neck and beak,
+Set out for a stroll by the bank of a creek.
+So clear was the water that if you looked sharp
+You could see the pike caper around with the carp.
+The Heron might quickly have speared enough fish
+To make for his dinner a capital dish.
+But he was a very particular bird:
+His food fixed "just so," at the hours he preferred.
+And hence he decided 'twas better to wait,
+Since his appetite grew when he supped rather late.
+Pretty soon he was hungry, and stalked to the bank.
+Where some pondfish were leaping--a fish of low rank.
+"Bah, Bah!" said the Bird. "Sup on these? No--not I.
+I'm known as a Heron: as such I live high."
+Then some gudgeon swam past that were tempting to see,
+But the Heron said hautily: "No--not for me.
+For those I'd not bother to open my beak,
+If I had to hang 'round come next Friday a week."
+Thus bragged the big Bird. But he's bound to confess
+That he opened his elegant beak for much less.
+Not another fish came. When he found all else fail,
+He was happy to happen upon a fat snail.
+
+
+
+The Raven Who Would Rival The Eagle.
+
+An Eagle swooped from out the sky,
+And carried off a sheep.
+A Raven seeing him, said: "I
+Could do that too if I should try.
+His meal comes mighty cheap."
+
+Of all that well-fed flock was one
+As fat as fat could be.
+The Raven rose, and lit upon
+Her back. She seemed to weigh a ton--
+So very fat was she.
+
+And, oh! Her wool was wondrous thick:
+It would have made a mat.
+The Raven's claws are caught, and stick!
+He's played himself a pretty trick--
+To fly with one so fat.
+
+"Ba, ba!" "Caw, caw!" cry bird and beast.
+The shepherd comes at last:
+Sir Raven who would find a feast
+Is from the woolly one released,
+And in a cage kept fast.
+
+
+
+The Miller, His Son And The Ass.
+
+A Miller and Son once set out for the fair,
+To sell a fine ass they had brought up with care;
+And the way that they started made everyone stare.
+
+To keep the Ass fresh, so the beast would sell dear
+On a pole they slung him. It surely seemed queer:
+He looked, with heels up, like some huge chandelier.
+
+One person who passed them cried out in great glee.
+"Was there anything ever so silly?" said he.
+"Can you guess who the greatest Ass is of those three?"
+
+The Miller at once put the brute on the ground;
+And the Ass, who had liked to ride t'other way round,
+Complained in language of curious sound.
+
+No matter. The Miller now made his Son ride,
+While he followed after or walked alongside.
+Then up came three merchants. The eldest one cried;
+
+"Get down there, young fellow! I never did see
+Such manners:--a gray-beard walks where you should be.
+He should ride, you should follow. Just take that from me!"
+
+"Dear Sirs," quoth the Miller, "I'd see you content."
+He climbed to the saddle; on foot the boy went...
+Three girls passed. Said one: "Do you see that old Gent?
+There he sits, like a bishop. I say it's a shame,
+While that boy trudging after seems more than half lame."
+"Little girl," said the Miller, "go back whence you came."
+
+Yet this young creature so worked on his mind
+That he wanted no woman to call him unkind:
+And he said to his Son: "Seat yourself here--behind."
+
+With the Ass bearing double they jogged on again,
+And once more met a critic, who said: "It is plain
+Only dunces would give their poor donkey such pain.
+He will die with their weight: it's a shame and a sin.
+For their faithful servant they care not a pin.
+They'll have nothing to sell at the fair but his skin."
+
+"Dear me!" said the Miller, "what am I to do?
+Must I suit the whole world and the world's father, too?
+Yet it must end some time--so I'll see the thing through."
+
+Both Father and Son now decided to walk,
+While the Ass marched in front with a strut and a stalk;
+Yet the people who passed them continued to talk.
+
+Said one to another: "Look there, if you please,
+How they wear out their shoes, while their Ass takes his ease.
+Were there ever, d'ye think, three such asses as these?"
+Said the Miller: "You're right. I'm an Ass! It is true.
+Too long have I listened to people like you.
+But now I am done with the whole kit and crew.
+
+"Let them blame me or praise me, keep silent or yell,
+My goings and comings they cannot compel.
+I will do as I please!"...So he did--and did well.
+
+
+
+
+
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