Identifier: aesopsfables00aeso (find matches)
Title: Aesop's fables
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fables
Publisher: London : Heinemann New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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t he was a learned physician, skilled in drugs and ableto cure all diseases. Among the crowd was a Fox, whocalled out, You a doctor ! Why, how can you set upto heal others when you cannot even cure your own lamelegs and blotched and wrinkled skin ? Physician, heal thyself. THE SWOLLEN FOX A HUNGRY Fox found in a hollow tree a quantity^^~^ of bread and meat, which some shepherds hadplaced there against their return. Delighted with hisfind he slipped in through the narrow aperture and greedilydevoured it all. But when he tried to get out again hefound himself so swollen after his big meal that hecould not squeeze through the hole, and fell to whiningand groaning over his misfortune. Another Fox, hap-pening to pass that way, came and asked him what thematter was ; and, on learning the state of the case, said, Well, my friend, I see nothing for it but for you tostay where you are till you shrink to your former size ;youll get out then easily enough. 56 THE QUACK FROG OOHl y\jf\:ji^f :iiii
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THE MOUSE, THE FROG, AND THE HAWK A MOUSE and a Frog struck up a friendship; theywere not well mated, for the Mouse lived entirelyon land, while the Frog was equally at home on landor in the water. In order that they might never beseparated, the Frog tied himself and the Mouse togetherby the leg with a piece of thread. As long as they kepton dry land all went fairly well; but, coming to the edgeof a pool, the Frog jumped in, taking the Mouse with him,and began swimming about and croaking with pleasure.The unhappy Mouse, however, was soon drowned, andfloated about on the surface in the wake of the Frog.There he was spied by a Hawk, who pounced down onhim and seized him in his talons. The Frog was unableto loose the knot which bound him to the Mouse, and thuswas carried off along with him and eaten by the Hawk. THE BOY AND THE NETTLES A BOY was gathering berries from a hedge when hishand was stung by a Nettle. Smarting with thepain, he ran to tell his mother, and said to her betweenhis

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