The Crow and the Pitcher
A CROW, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it.
⦃Read⦄The Dog in the Manger
A dog looking out for its afternoon nap jumped into the manger of an ox and lay there cosily upon the straw.
⦃Read⦄The Fox Without a Tail
It happened that a FOX caught its tail in a trap, and in struggling to release himself lost all of it but the stump.
⦃Read⦄The Fox and the Grapes
FOX, very hungry, chanced to come into a vineyard, where hung branches of charming ripe grapes, but nailed up to trellis so high, that he leaped till he quite tired himself without being able to reach one of them.
⦃Read⦄The Ant and the Grasshopper
In a field one summer’s day, a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart’s content.
⦃Read⦄The Lions Share
THE Lion went once a-hunting along with the Fox, the Jackal, and the Wolf.
⦃Read⦄The Lion and the Mouse
ONCE when a Lion was asleep a little Mouse began running up and down upon him; this soon wakened the Lion, who placed his huge paw upon him, and opened his big jaws to swallow him.
⦃Read⦄The Shepherds Boy
There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest.
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