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The document contains summaries of four Aesop's fables: 1) The Wolf and the Lamb story tells of a wolf making up an excuse to eat a lamb by accusing the lamb of muddying its water despite the lamb being only six months old. 2) The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse tale compares a country mouse's simple life to a visit with its cousin in town, where they encounter dogs after enjoying a feast. 3) The Wolf and the Kid fable describes a kid taunting a wolf from a roof but being warned that it is easy to be brave from a distance. 4) The Man and the Serpent parable tells of a farmer losing cattle to a

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Fables

The document contains summaries of four Aesop's fables: 1) The Wolf and the Lamb story tells of a wolf making up an excuse to eat a lamb by accusing the lamb of muddying its water despite the lamb being only six months old. 2) The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse tale compares a country mouse's simple life to a visit with its cousin in town, where they encounter dogs after enjoying a feast. 3) The Wolf and the Kid fable describes a kid taunting a wolf from a roof but being warned that it is easy to be brave from a distance. 4) The Man and the Serpent parable tells of a farmer losing cattle to a

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Aesop's Fables:

The Wolf and the Lamb


Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. "There's my supper," thought he, "if only I can find some excuse to seize it." Then he called out to the Lamb, "How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking?"

"Nay, master, nay," said Lambikin; "if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me."

"Well, then," said the Wolf, "why did you call me bad names this time last year?"

"That

cannot

be,"

said

the

Lamb;

"I

am

only

six

months

old."

"I don't care," snarled the Wolf; "if it was not you it was your father;" and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out:

"Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse


Now you must know that a Town Mouse once upon a time went on a visit to his cousin in the country. He was rough and ready, this cousin, but he loved his town friend and made him heartily welcome. Beans and bacon, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely.

The Town Mouse rather turned up his long nose at this country fare, and said: "I cannot understand, Cousin, how you can put up with such poor food as this, but of course you cannot expect anything better in the country; come you with me and I will show you how to live. When you have been in town a week you will wonder how you could ever have stood a country life."

No sooner said than done: the two mice set off for the town and arrived at the Town Mouse's residence late at night. "You will want some refreshment after our long journey," said the polite Town Mouse, and took his friend into the grand dining-room. There they found the remains of a fine feast, and soon the two mice were eating up jellies and cakes and all that was nice.

Suddenly they heard growling and barking. "What is that?" said the Country Mouse. "It is only the dogs of the house," answered the other. "Only!" said the Country Mouse. "I do not like that music at my dinner." Just at that moment the door flew open, in came two huge mastiffs, and the two mice had to scamper down and run off. "Good-bye, Cousin," said the Country Mouse, "What! going so soon?" said the other. "Yes," he replied;

"Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear."

The Wolf and the Kid


A Kid was perched up on the top of a house, and looking down saw a Wolf passing under him. Immediately he began to revile and attack his enemy. "Murderer and thief," he cried, "what do you here near honest folks' houses? How dare you make an appearance where your vile deeds are known?"

"Curse

away,

my

young

friend,"

said

the

Wolf.

"It is easy to be brave from a safe distance."

The Man and the Serpent


A Countryman's son by accident trod upon a Serpent's tail, which turned and bit him so that he died. The father in a rage got his axe, and pursuing the Serpent, cut off part of its tail. So the Serpent in revenge began stinging several of the Farmer's cattle and caused him severe loss. Well, the Farmer thought it best to make it up with the Serpent, and brought food and honey to the mouth of its lair, and said to it: "Let's forget and forgive; perhaps you were right to punish my son, and take vengeance on my cattle, but surely I was right in trying to revenge him; now that we are both satisfied why should not we be friends again?"

"No, no," said the Serpent; "take away your gifts; you can never forget the death of your son, nor I the loss of my tail."

Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.

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