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diff --git a/24108.txt b/24108.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..db147c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/24108.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1145 @@ +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 *** + + + + + + + + + + +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. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks, by +Jean de La Fontaine + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FABLES IN RHYME FOR LITTLE FOLKS *** + +***** This file should be named 24108.txt or 24108.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/4/1/0/24108/ + + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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