The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . If you will let me go, I will be forevergrateful. The Lion smiled, and let the Mouse long after, the Mouse had a chance torepay him, for the Lion was caught by some THE BOOK OF FABLES. 25 hunters, and bound with ropes to a Mouse heard him roar and groan, andran and gnawed the ropes, so that the Liongot free. Then the Mouse said : â You laughed at me once, Lion, as if youcould get nothing in return for your kind-ness to me, but now it is you who owe yourlife to me. This fable teaches that there may comesudden changes of fortune, when the
The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . If you will let me go, I will be forevergrateful. The Lion smiled, and let the Mouse long after, the Mouse had a chance torepay him, for the Lion was caught by some THE BOOK OF FABLES. 25 hunters, and bound with ropes to a Mouse heard him roar and groan, andran and gnawed the ropes, so that the Liongot free. Then the Mouse said : â You laughed at me once, Lion, as if youcould get nothing in return for your kind-ness to me, but now it is you who owe yourlife to me. This fable teaches that there may comesudden changes of fortune, when the strongwill owe everything to the weak. FLIES AND THE POT OF HONEY. A Pot of Honey was upset in the pantry,and the Flies crowded about to eat of it. Itwas so sticky that they could not get away;their feet were held fast, so that they couldnot fly, and they began to choke to death. What wretches we are, they cried, todie just for a moment of pleasure ! So it is that greediness is the cause ofmany evils. 26 THE BOOK OF LION AND THE BEAR. A Lion and a Bear chanced to fall upon aFawn at the same time, and they began tofight for it. They fought so fiercely thatat length they fell down, entirely worn outand almost dead. A Fox, passing that way, saw themstretched out, and the Fawn dead betweenthem. He stole in slyly, seized the Fawn,and ran away with it for his own they saw this, they could not stir,but they cried out: â THE BOOK OF FABLES. 27 What wretches we are to take all thistrouble for the Fox ! This fable teaches that when two peoplefall to fighting for something, a third per-son is apt to get it. FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTERS. There was a man who had two daughters,and he married one to a Gardener, the otherto a Potter. After some time he came tothe Gardeners wife, and asked her how shedid, and if all went well with her. All things go well but one, she said. We want rain te make the plants grow. Not long after he came to the Potterswife
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