WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.160 --> 00:00:06.080 The following are some of Esop's best loved fables. The 2 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:10.759 goose with the golden eggs. A certain man had the 3 00:00:10.759 --> 00:00:13.640 good fortune to possess a goose that laid him a 4 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:19.039 golden egg every day. But dissatisfied with so slow an income, 5 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.000 and thinking to seize the whole treasure at once, he 6 00:00:23.079 --> 00:00:26.480 killed the goose, and cutting her open, found her just 7 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:31.199 what any other goose would be. Much wants more and 8 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:38.000 loses all. The town mouse and the country mouse. A 9 00:00:38.079 --> 00:00:42.320 country mouse invited a town mouse, an intimate friend, to 10 00:00:42.320 --> 00:00:44.960 pay him a visit and partake of his country fare. 11 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.759 As they were on the bare plowed lands, eating their 12 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:52.280 wheat stalks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, the 13 00:00:52.320 --> 00:00:55.359 town mouse said to his friend, you live here the 14 00:00:55.399 --> 00:00:58.359 life of the ants, while in my house is the 15 00:00:58.439 --> 00:01:02.679 horn of plenty. I am surrounded with every luxury, and 16 00:01:02.719 --> 00:01:05.239 if you will come with me, as I much wish 17 00:01:05.400 --> 00:01:09.040 you would, you shall have an ample share of my dainties. 18 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.480 The country mouse was easily persuaded and returned to town with 19 00:01:13.560 --> 00:01:17.200 his friend. On his arrival, the town mouse placed before 20 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:23.040 him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and last 21 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.840 of all brought a dainty piece of cheese from the basket. 22 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:30.680 The country mouse, being much delighted at the sight of 23 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:35.519 such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms, and 24 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:40.120 lamented his own hard fate. Just as they were beginning 25 00:01:40.159 --> 00:01:43.120 to eat, some one opened the door, and they both 26 00:01:43.280 --> 00:01:46.280 ran off, squeaking as fast as they could, to a 27 00:01:46.359 --> 00:01:49.159 hole so narrow that two could only find room in 28 00:01:49.239 --> 00:01:53.560 it by squeezing. They had scarcely again begun their repast 29 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:56.719 when some one entered to take something out of a cupboard, 30 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:00.599 on which the two mice, more frightened than before, ran 31 00:02:00.680 --> 00:02:06.000 away and hid themselves at last. The country mouse, almost famished, 32 00:02:06.480 --> 00:02:10.560 thus addressed his friend, although you have prepared for me 33 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:14.319 so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy 34 00:02:14.360 --> 00:02:18.520 it by yourself. It is surrounded by too many dangers 35 00:02:18.520 --> 00:02:23.520 to please me. Better a little in safety than an 36 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:29.759 abundance surrounded by danger. The milk maid and her pot 37 00:02:29.919 --> 00:02:34.000 of milk. A maid was carrying her pail of milk 38 00:02:34.039 --> 00:02:38.159 to the farmhouse when she fell amusing. The money for 39 00:02:38.280 --> 00:02:41.719 which this milk will be sold will buy at least 40 00:02:41.800 --> 00:02:46.439 three hundred eggs. The eggs allowing for all mishaps will 41 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:50.560 produce two hundred and fifty chickens. The chickens will become 42 00:02:50.599 --> 00:02:54.120 ready for market when poultry will fetch the highest price, 43 00:02:54.680 --> 00:02:57.240 so that by the end of the year I shall 44 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:00.560 have money enough to buy a new gown. In this distress, 45 00:03:00.719 --> 00:03:03.879 I will go to the Christmas junketings, when all the 46 00:03:03.960 --> 00:03:07.439 young fellows will propose to me, but I will toss 47 00:03:07.520 --> 00:03:11.879 my head and refuse them every one. At this moment, 48 00:03:12.360 --> 00:03:15.560 she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts. When 49 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.680 down fell the milk pot to the ground and broke 50 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:22.919 into a hundred pieces, and all her fine schemes perished 51 00:03:23.159 --> 00:03:27.960 in a moment. Count not your chickens before they are hatched. 52 00:03:30.080 --> 00:03:34.479 The Man and the satyr. A man and a satyr 53 00:03:34.560 --> 00:03:39.000 once formed a bond of alliance one very cold wintry day. 54 00:03:39.120 --> 00:03:42.000 As they talked together, the man put his fingers in 55 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.280 his mouth and blew on them on the satyr, inquiring 56 00:03:45.319 --> 00:03:47.759 the reason, he told him that he did it to 57 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:51.000 warm his hands. Later on in the day they sat 58 00:03:51.080 --> 00:03:55.560 down to eat the food prepared. Being quite scalding, the 59 00:03:55.639 --> 00:03:58.560 man raised one of his dishes towards his mouth and 60 00:03:58.639 --> 00:04:02.520 blew in it on the satyr, again, inquiring the reason, 61 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:05.080 he said that he did it to cool the meat. 62 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:09.520 I can no longer consider you as a friend, said 63 00:04:09.520 --> 00:04:13.120 the satan. A fellow who, with the same breath blows 64 00:04:13.199 --> 00:04:18.439 hot and cold I could never trust. A man who 65 00:04:18.480 --> 00:04:22.480 talks for both sides is not to be trusted by either. 66 00:04:24.879 --> 00:04:29.759 The mice in council, the mice summoned a council to 67 00:04:29.800 --> 00:04:33.319 decide how they might best devise means for obtaining notice 68 00:04:33.319 --> 00:04:37.439 of the approach of their great enemy, the cat. Among 69 00:04:37.480 --> 00:04:41.199 the many plans devised, the one that found most favor 70 00:04:41.680 --> 00:04:44.279 was the proposal to tie a bell to the neck 71 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.879 of the cat, that the mice, being warned by the 72 00:04:46.920 --> 00:04:50.319 sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide themselves 73 00:04:50.319 --> 00:04:54.040 in their holes at his approach. But when the mice 74 00:04:54.120 --> 00:04:57.800 further debated who among them should thus bell the cat, 75 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:02.439 there was no one found to it. Let those who 76 00:05:02.480 --> 00:05:08.920 propose be willing to perform. The fighting cocks and the eagle. 77 00:05:10.079 --> 00:05:13.800 Two game cocks were fiercely fighting for the mastery of 78 00:05:13.839 --> 00:05:17.399 the farmyard. One at last put the other to flight. 79 00:05:17.959 --> 00:05:21.040 The vanquished cock skulked away and hid himself in a 80 00:05:21.160 --> 00:05:25.160 quiet corner. The conqueror, flying up to a high wall, 81 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.839 flapped his wings and crowed exultingly with all his might. 82 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:34.360 An eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and 83 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:38.920 carried him off in his talons. The vanquished cock immediately 84 00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:43.279 came out of his corner and ruled henceforth with undisputed mastery. 85 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:52.000 Pride goes before destruction. The Lion and the Mouse. A 86 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:55.040 lion was awakened from sleep by a mouse running over 87 00:05:55.079 --> 00:05:58.639 his face. Rising up in anger, he caught him and 88 00:05:58.759 --> 00:06:02.480 was about to kill him, when the mouse piteously entreated, saying, 89 00:06:03.079 --> 00:06:05.759 if you would only spare my life, I would be 90 00:06:05.800 --> 00:06:09.279 sure to repay your kindness. The lion laughed and let 91 00:06:09.399 --> 00:06:13.439 him go. It happened shortly after that that the lion 92 00:06:13.839 --> 00:06:17.199 was caught by some hunters, who bound him by strong 93 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:21.680 ropes to the ground. The mouse, recognizing his roar, came 94 00:06:21.759 --> 00:06:24.439 up and gnawed the rope with his teeth, and setting 95 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:28.680 him free. Exclaimed, you ridicule the idea of my ever 96 00:06:28.759 --> 00:06:31.680 being able to help you, not expecting to receive from 97 00:06:31.680 --> 00:06:35.079 me any re payment for your favor. But now you 98 00:06:35.279 --> 00:06:38.800 know that it is possible for even a mouse to 99 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:43.319 confer benefits on a lion. No one is too weak 100 00:06:43.720 --> 00:06:49.800 to do good. The Crow and the pitcher. A crow 101 00:06:50.240 --> 00:06:54.199 perishing with thirst, saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water, 102 00:06:54.800 --> 00:06:57.920 flew to it with great delight. When he reached it, 103 00:06:58.000 --> 00:07:01.319 he discovered to his grief that it contained so little 104 00:07:01.360 --> 00:07:04.480 water that he could not possibly get at it. He 105 00:07:04.560 --> 00:07:06.920 tried everything he could think of to reach the water, 106 00:07:07.360 --> 00:07:11.399 but all his efforts were in vain. At last, he 107 00:07:11.439 --> 00:07:14.720 collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped 108 00:07:14.720 --> 00:07:17.879 them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, 109 00:07:18.360 --> 00:07:21.800 until he brought the water within his reach, and thus 110 00:07:22.000 --> 00:07:29.319 saved his life. Necessity is the mother of invention. The 111 00:07:29.360 --> 00:07:34.120 Fox and the crow. A crow, having stolen a bit 112 00:07:34.160 --> 00:07:36.759 of meat, perched in a tree and held it in 113 00:07:36.800 --> 00:07:41.240 her beak. A fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself 114 00:07:41.279 --> 00:07:45.879 of the meat, and by a wily stratagem, succeeded. How 115 00:07:46.120 --> 00:07:50.000 handsome is the crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of 116 00:07:50.000 --> 00:07:53.839 her shape and in the fairness of her complexion. Oh, 117 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:57.199 if her voice were only equal to her beauty, she 118 00:07:57.240 --> 00:08:02.240 would deservedly be considered the queen of birds. This, he said, deceitfully, 119 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.800 having greater admiration for the meat than for the crow. 120 00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:10.319 But the crow, all her vanity, aroused by the cunning flattery, 121 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:14.240 and anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, 122 00:08:14.839 --> 00:08:19.319 set up a loud caw and dropped the meat. The 123 00:08:19.360 --> 00:08:22.160 fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed the crow, 124 00:08:22.759 --> 00:08:26.319 My good crow, Your voice is right enough, but your 125 00:08:26.360 --> 00:08:31.800 wit is wanting. He who listens to flattery is not wise, 126 00:08:32.360 --> 00:08:38.559 for it has no good purpose. The shepherd's boy and Wolf. 127 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.720 A shepherd boy who watched a flock of sheep near 128 00:08:42.759 --> 00:08:46.720 a village, brought out the villagers three or four times 129 00:08:46.759 --> 00:08:50.679 by crying wolf, Wolf, and when his neighbors came to 130 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:55.080 help him, laughed at them for their pains. The wolf, however, 131 00:08:55.480 --> 00:09:00.720 did truly come. At last. The shepherd boy, now really alarmed, shouted, 132 00:09:00.759 --> 00:09:03.759 in an agony of terror, pray, do come and help me. 133 00:09:03.799 --> 00:09:07.000 The wolf is killing the sheep. But no one paid 134 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:11.320 any heed to his cries. There is no believing a 135 00:09:11.399 --> 00:09:17.159 liar even when he speaks the truth. The Fox and 136 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:21.559 the grapes. A famished fox saw some clusters of ripe 137 00:09:21.720 --> 00:09:25.919 black grapes hanging from a trellised vine. She resorted to 138 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:29.279 all her tricks to get at them. But wearied herself 139 00:09:29.320 --> 00:09:32.960 in vain, for she could not reach them. At last, 140 00:09:33.080 --> 00:09:37.000 she turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment, and saying, 141 00:09:37.440 --> 00:09:41.039 the grapes are sour and not ripe, as I thought, 142 00:09:41.879 --> 00:09:48.759 revile not things beyond your reach. The ants and the grasshopper. 143 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:53.480 The ants were employing a fine winter's day and drying 144 00:09:53.519 --> 00:09:58.279 grain collected in the summer time. A grasshopper, perishing with famine, 145 00:09:58.320 --> 00:10:01.440 passed by, and earnestly he begged for a little food. 146 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:05.799 The ants inquired of him, why do you not treasure 147 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:10.159 of food during the summer, He replied, I had not leisure. 148 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:14.559 I passed the days in singing. Then they said, if 149 00:10:14.600 --> 00:10:17.600 you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you 150 00:10:17.679 --> 00:10:25.480 must dance supperless to bed in the winter. Idleness brings want. 151 00:10:26.039 --> 00:10:30.600 The fox and the stark. The fox invited the stark 152 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:34.559 to dinner, and provided nothing but a soup in a wide, 153 00:10:34.799 --> 00:10:38.679 shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease. But 154 00:10:38.799 --> 00:10:41.559 the stark, who could but just dip in the point 155 00:10:41.559 --> 00:10:44.720 of his bill, was not a bit better. A few 156 00:10:44.799 --> 00:10:48.399 days after, he returned the compliment and invited the fox, 157 00:10:48.879 --> 00:10:51.679 but suffered nothing to be brought to the table, but 158 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:55.159 some minced meat in a glass jar, the neck of 159 00:10:55.240 --> 00:10:59.120 which was so deep and so narrow, that though the stark, 160 00:10:59.159 --> 00:11:02.200 with his long bill, could eat very well, all that 161 00:11:02.240 --> 00:11:06.120 the fox could do was to lick the brims. Reynard 162 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:09.799 was heartily vexed, but owned that he had been used 163 00:11:09.919 --> 00:11:15.559 as he deserved. Those who practiced cunning must expect to 164 00:11:15.720 --> 00:11:25.440 suffer by it. End of section zero, Section one. The 165 00:11:25.559 --> 00:11:31.039 wolf turned shepherd. A wolf, finding that the sheep were 166 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:33.759 so afraid of him that he could not get near them, 167 00:11:34.240 --> 00:11:37.960 disguised himself in the dress of a shepherd, and thus 168 00:11:38.000 --> 00:11:42.240 attired approached the flock. As he came near, he found 169 00:11:42.279 --> 00:11:46.559 the shepherd fast asleep. As the sheep did not run away, 170 00:11:47.320 --> 00:11:51.039 he resolved to imitate the voice of the shepherd. In 171 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:54.879 trying to do so, he only howled and awoke the shepherd. 172 00:11:55.440 --> 00:11:58.440 As he could not run away, he was soon killed. 173 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:04.000 Those who attempt to act in disguise are apt to 174 00:12:04.200 --> 00:12:12.840 overdo it. The stag at the pool. A stag saw 175 00:12:12.879 --> 00:12:15.919 his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the 176 00:12:15.960 --> 00:12:19.720 size of his horns, but felt angry with himself for 177 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:24.759 having such weak feet. While he was thus contemplating himself. 178 00:12:25.320 --> 00:12:29.120 A lion appeared at the pool. The stag betook himself 179 00:12:29.159 --> 00:12:32.399 to flight, and kept himself with ease at a safe 180 00:12:32.480 --> 00:12:35.960 distance from the lion, until he entered a wood and 181 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:40.720 became entangled with his horns. The lion quickly came up 182 00:12:40.720 --> 00:12:44.519 with him and caught him, when too late. He thus 183 00:12:44.600 --> 00:12:49.159 reproached himself, woe is me? How have I deceived myself? 184 00:12:49.679 --> 00:12:53.879 These feet which would have saved me? I despised, and 185 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:57.679 I gloried in these antlers which have proved my destruction. 186 00:12:58.720 --> 00:13:05.519 What is most truly valuable is often underrated. The Fox 187 00:13:05.759 --> 00:13:09.639 and the mask. A fox entered the house of an actor, 188 00:13:10.120 --> 00:13:14.000 and rummaging through all his properties, came upon a mask, 189 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:18.320 an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his 190 00:13:18.440 --> 00:13:23.120 paws on it and said, what a beautiful head. Yet 191 00:13:23.240 --> 00:13:27.600 it is of no value, as it entirely wants brains. 192 00:13:28.639 --> 00:13:33.200 A fair face is of little use without sense. The 193 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:37.679 Bear and the Fox. A boar boasted very much of 194 00:13:37.720 --> 00:13:41.919 his philanthropy, saying that of all the animals, he was 195 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:45.639 the most tender in his regard for man, for he 196 00:13:45.759 --> 00:13:48.200 had such respect for him that he would not even 197 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:52.799 touch his dead body. A fox, hearing these words, said 198 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:55.679 with a smile to the bear, oh, that you would 199 00:13:55.679 --> 00:13:59.360 eat the dead and not the living. We should not 200 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:03.759 wait till a person is dead to give him our respect. 201 00:14:04.399 --> 00:14:08.240 The wolf and the lamb. A wolf, meeting with the 202 00:14:08.360 --> 00:14:12.480 lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent 203 00:14:12.559 --> 00:14:16.240 hands on him, but to find some plea which should 204 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:19.600 justify to the lamb himself his right to eat him. 205 00:14:20.279 --> 00:14:26.159 He then addressed him, Sir, last year, you grossly insulted me. Indeed, 206 00:14:26.639 --> 00:14:29.759 pleaded the lamb in a mournful tone of voice. I 207 00:14:29.919 --> 00:14:34.440 was not then born, then, said the wolf. You feed 208 00:14:34.559 --> 00:14:39.480 in my pasture. No good, sir, replied the lamb. I 209 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:44.039 have not yet tasted grass. Again, said the wolf, you 210 00:14:44.360 --> 00:14:49.320 drink it? My will no, exclaimed the lamb. I never 211 00:14:49.399 --> 00:14:52.879 yet drank water, for as yet, my mother's milk is 212 00:14:52.919 --> 00:14:56.679 both food and drink to me. On which the wolf 213 00:14:56.840 --> 00:15:00.679 seized him and ate him up, saying, well, I won't 214 00:15:00.759 --> 00:15:05.399 remain supperless. Even though you refute every one of my imputations. 215 00:15:06.639 --> 00:15:10.759 The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny, 216 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:14.039 and it is useless for the innocent to try by 217 00:15:14.120 --> 00:15:18.440 reasoning to get justice when the oppressor intends to be unjust. 218 00:15:20.919 --> 00:15:25.919 The one eyed doe, a doe blind of an eye, 219 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:29.000 was accustomed to graze as near to the edge of 220 00:15:29.039 --> 00:15:32.720 the sea as she possibly could. To secure greater safety. 221 00:15:33.360 --> 00:15:35.759 She turned her eye toward the land that she might 222 00:15:35.799 --> 00:15:39.240 perceive the approach of a hunter or hound, and her 223 00:15:39.279 --> 00:15:43.159 injured eye toward the sea, from which she entertained no 224 00:15:43.399 --> 00:15:49.279 anticipation of danger. Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and, 225 00:15:49.440 --> 00:15:55.039 taking a successful aim, mortially wounded her. Said she, O 226 00:15:55.360 --> 00:15:59.080 wretched creature that I am to take such precaution against 227 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:03.240 the land, and after all, to find this seashore to 228 00:16:03.320 --> 00:16:07.879 which I had come for safety so much more perilous 229 00:16:08.559 --> 00:16:12.720 danger sometimes comes from a source that is least suspected. 230 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:19.120 The dog, Cock and fox. A dog and a cock 231 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:22.879 traveling together, took shelter at night in a thick wood. 232 00:16:23.559 --> 00:16:26.960 The cock perched himself on a high branch, while the 233 00:16:27.039 --> 00:16:30.200 dog found a bed at the foot of the tree. 234 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:34.399 When morning dawned, the cock, as usual, crowed very loudly. 235 00:16:35.000 --> 00:16:37.320 A fox, hearing the sound and wishing to make a 236 00:16:37.320 --> 00:16:41.720 breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying 237 00:16:41.799 --> 00:16:44.799 how earnestly. He desired to make the acquaintance of the 238 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:49.120 owner of so sweet a voice. If you will admit me, 239 00:16:49.759 --> 00:16:52.720 said he, I should very much like to spend the 240 00:16:52.799 --> 00:16:57.440 day with you. The cock said, sir, do me the 241 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:00.519 favor to go round and wake up my porter, that 242 00:17:00.639 --> 00:17:03.320 he may open the door and let you in. On 243 00:17:03.440 --> 00:17:06.880 the fox approaching the tree, the dog sprang out and 244 00:17:06.960 --> 00:17:11.160 caught him, and quickly tore him to pieces. Those who 245 00:17:11.240 --> 00:17:15.880 tried to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes. 246 00:17:18.000 --> 00:17:22.279 The mouse, the frog, and the hawk. A mouse, by 247 00:17:22.319 --> 00:17:26.319 an unlucky chance, formed an intimate acquaintance with a frog. 248 00:17:27.160 --> 00:17:30.599 The frog, one day, intent on mischief, bound the foot 249 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:34.160 of the mouse tightly to his own. Thus joined together, 250 00:17:34.640 --> 00:17:37.240 the frog led his friend toward the pool in which 251 00:17:37.279 --> 00:17:41.359 he lived, until he reached the very brink, when, suddenly, 252 00:17:41.440 --> 00:17:45.200 jumping in, he dragged the mouse in with him. The 253 00:17:45.279 --> 00:17:50.160 frog enjoyed the water amazingly and swam croaking about as 254 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.759 if he had done a meritorious action. The unhappy mouse 255 00:17:53.960 --> 00:17:57.799 was soon suffocated with the water, and his dead body 256 00:17:57.880 --> 00:18:00.799 floated about on the surface, tied to the foot of 257 00:18:00.839 --> 00:18:05.200 the frog. A hawk observed it and pouncing upon it, 258 00:18:05.319 --> 00:18:09.799 carried it up aloft. The frog, being still fastened to 259 00:18:09.960 --> 00:18:13.640 the leg of the mouse, was also carried off a prisoner, 260 00:18:14.119 --> 00:18:19.640 and was eaten by the hawk harm hatch harm catch. 261 00:18:22.079 --> 00:18:27.319 The dog and the oyster. A dog used to eating eggs, 262 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:32.400 saw an oyster, and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, 263 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:36.839 swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to 264 00:18:36.920 --> 00:18:41.200 be an egg. Soon afterwards, suffering great pain in his stomach, 265 00:18:41.279 --> 00:18:45.240 he said, I deserve all this torment for my folly 266 00:18:45.480 --> 00:18:49.200 in thinking that everything round must be an egg. Who 267 00:18:49.480 --> 00:18:56.279 acts in haste repents at leisure. The wolf and the 268 00:18:56.319 --> 00:19:00.559 shepherd's A wolf passing by saw some shepherds in a 269 00:19:00.640 --> 00:19:04.559 hut eating for their dinner a haunch of mutton. Approaching them, 270 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:07.880 he said, what a clamor you would raise if I 271 00:19:08.079 --> 00:19:12.039 were to do as you are doing. Men are too 272 00:19:12.119 --> 00:19:16.839 apt to condemn in others the very things they practice themselves, 273 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:23.799 the hares and the frogs. The hares, oppressed with a 274 00:19:23.880 --> 00:19:27.440 sense of their own exceeding timidity, and weary of the 275 00:19:27.559 --> 00:19:32.279 perpetual alarm to which they were exposed with one accord, 276 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:35.839 determined to put an end to themselves, and their troubles 277 00:19:36.200 --> 00:19:40.000 by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. 278 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:43.680 As they scampered off in a very numerous body to 279 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:47.200 carry out their resolve, the frogs lying on the banks 280 00:19:47.200 --> 00:19:50.160 of the lake heard the noise of their feet and 281 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.799 rushed helter skelter to the deep water for safety. On 282 00:19:54.039 --> 00:19:57.319 seeing the rapid disappearance of the frogs, one of the 283 00:19:57.359 --> 00:20:01.880 hares cried out to his companions, stay, my friends, do 284 00:20:02.039 --> 00:20:05.319 not do as you intended. For you now see that 285 00:20:05.440 --> 00:20:09.279 other creatures who yet live are more timorous than ourselves. 286 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:13.920 We are encouraged by seeing others that are worse off 287 00:20:14.039 --> 00:20:21.000 than ourselves. The lion and the boar, on a summer day, 288 00:20:21.039 --> 00:20:24.440 when the great heat induced a general thirst, a lion 289 00:20:24.519 --> 00:20:27.119 and a boar came at the same moment to a 290 00:20:27.160 --> 00:20:31.440 small well to drink. They fiercely disputed which of them 291 00:20:31.480 --> 00:20:35.519 should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies 292 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:39.200 of a mortal combat. On their stopping on a sudden 293 00:20:39.240 --> 00:20:41.880 to take breath for the fierce renewal of the strife, 294 00:20:42.440 --> 00:20:45.839 they saw some vultures waiting in the distance to feast 295 00:20:45.880 --> 00:20:49.200 on the one which should fall first. They at once 296 00:20:49.319 --> 00:20:52.359 made up their quarrel, saying it is better for us 297 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.000 to make friends than to become the food of crows 298 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:58.920 or vultures, as will certainly happen if we are disabled. 299 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:03.880 Those who strive are often watched by them who will 300 00:21:03.880 --> 00:21:09.839 take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves. The mischievous 301 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:13.880 dog a dog used to run up quietly to the 302 00:21:13.920 --> 00:21:17.559 heels of those he met, and to bite them without notice. 303 00:21:17.599 --> 00:21:21.440 His master sometimes suspended a bell about his neck that 304 00:21:21.519 --> 00:21:24.160 he might give notice of his presence wherever he went, 305 00:21:24.559 --> 00:21:27.680 and sometimes he fastened a chain about his neck, to 306 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:31.119 which was attached a heavy clog, so that he could 307 00:21:31.160 --> 00:21:35.000 not be so quick at biting people's heels. The dog 308 00:21:35.160 --> 00:21:38.599 grew proud of his bell and clog, and went with 309 00:21:38.640 --> 00:21:42.880 them all over the marketplace. An old hound said to him, 310 00:21:43.480 --> 00:21:47.079 why do you make such an exhibition of yourself that 311 00:21:47.200 --> 00:21:50.119 bell and clog that you carry, Or not believe me 312 00:21:50.839 --> 00:21:54.759 orders of merit, but on the contrary marks of disgrace, 313 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.519 a public notice to all men to avoid you as 314 00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:04.079 an ill mannered dog. Those who achieved notoriety often mistake 315 00:22:04.119 --> 00:22:11.119 it for fame. The quack frog a frog once made 316 00:22:11.200 --> 00:22:15.119 proclamation to all the beasts that he was a learned 317 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:19.799 physician and able to heal all diseases. A fox asked him, 318 00:22:20.599 --> 00:22:24.319 how can you pretend to prescribe for others and you 319 00:22:24.400 --> 00:22:27.599 are unable to heal your own lame gait and wrinkled skin. 320 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:32.519 Those who pretend that they can mend others should first 321 00:22:32.640 --> 00:22:36.200 mend themselves, and then they will be more readily believed. 322 00:22:38.079 --> 00:22:43.240 The ass, the fox and the lion. The ass and 323 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:47.279 the fox, having entered into a partnership, together, went out 324 00:22:47.359 --> 00:22:50.599 into the forest to hunt. They had not proceeded far 325 00:22:50.680 --> 00:22:53.920 when they met a lion. The fox approached the lion 326 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.720 and promised to contrive for him the capture of the 327 00:22:56.799 --> 00:23:00.160 ass if he would pledge his word that his own 328 00:23:00.200 --> 00:23:03.359 life should be spared on his assuring him that he 329 00:23:03.400 --> 00:23:06.440 would not injure him. The fox led the ass to 330 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:10.039 a deep pitt and contrived that he would fall into it. 331 00:23:10.599 --> 00:23:15.079 The lion, seeing that the ass was secured, immediately clutched 332 00:23:15.119 --> 00:23:18.359 the fox and then attacked the ass at his leisure. 333 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:27.039 Traitors must expect treachery. The wolf and the sheep. A wolf, 334 00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.880 being sick and maimed, called to a sheep who was 335 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:32.720 passing and asked him to fetch water from the stream. 336 00:23:33.400 --> 00:23:36.599 For he said, if you will bring me drink, I 337 00:23:36.680 --> 00:23:40.759 will find means to provide myself with meat. Yes, said 338 00:23:40.799 --> 00:23:44.160 the sheep. If I should bring you draft, you would 339 00:23:44.200 --> 00:23:49.079 doubtless make me provide the meat. Also, hypocritical speeches are 340 00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:56.519 easily seen through the cock and the jewel. A cock, 341 00:23:56.680 --> 00:23:59.799 scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a 342 00:24:00.039 --> 00:24:03.400 rush a stone on which he said, if thy owner 343 00:24:03.440 --> 00:24:06.440 had found thee and not I, he would have taken 344 00:24:06.480 --> 00:24:09.160 thee up and have set thee in the first estate. 345 00:24:09.720 --> 00:24:12.880 But I have found thee for no purpose. I would 346 00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:15.720 rather have one barley corn than all the jewels in 347 00:24:15.759 --> 00:24:23.279 the world. The raven and the swan. A raven saw 348 00:24:23.319 --> 00:24:26.480 a swan and desired to secure for himself a like 349 00:24:26.599 --> 00:24:31.440 beauty of plumage, supposing that his splendid white color arose 350 00:24:31.519 --> 00:24:33.839 from his washing in the water in which he swam. 351 00:24:34.720 --> 00:24:37.640 The raven left the altars in the neighborhood of which 352 00:24:37.640 --> 00:24:40.599 he picked up his living, and took up his abode 353 00:24:40.640 --> 00:24:44.359 in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his fellers as 354 00:24:44.480 --> 00:24:47.759 often as he would, he could not change their color, 355 00:24:48.319 --> 00:24:52.640 While through want of food, he perished. Change of habit 356 00:24:53.039 --> 00:25:00.519 cannot alter nature. The lioness. A controversy prevailed among the 357 00:25:00.559 --> 00:25:03.559 beasts of the field as to which of the animals 358 00:25:03.599 --> 00:25:06.799 deserved the most credit for producing the greatest number of 359 00:25:06.839 --> 00:25:10.759 whelps at a birth. They rushed clamorously into the presence 360 00:25:10.799 --> 00:25:14.119 of the lioness and demanded of her the settlement of 361 00:25:14.160 --> 00:25:18.519 the dispute. And you, they said, how many sons have 362 00:25:18.599 --> 00:25:22.720 you at a birth? The lioness laughed at them and said, why, 363 00:25:22.960 --> 00:25:26.960 I have only one, but that one is altogether a 364 00:25:27.119 --> 00:25:31.799 thorough bred lion. The value is in the worth, not 365 00:25:32.400 --> 00:25:37.640 in the number. End of Section one. The two pots. 366 00:25:38.599 --> 00:25:42.599 A river carried down in its stream two pots, one 367 00:25:42.720 --> 00:25:46.319 made of earthenware and the other of brass. As they 368 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:49.680 floated along on the surface of the stream, the earthen 369 00:25:49.720 --> 00:25:53.119 pot said to the brass pot, pray keep at a distance, 370 00:25:53.319 --> 00:25:55.960 and do not come near me, for if you touch 371 00:25:56.039 --> 00:25:59.640 me ever so slightly, I shall be broken in pieces. 372 00:26:00.160 --> 00:26:03.960 And besides, I by no means wish to come near you. 373 00:26:05.119 --> 00:26:11.039 Equals make the best friends. The gnat and the lion. 374 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:16.559 A gnat came and said to a lion, I do 375 00:26:16.680 --> 00:26:20.519 not the least fear you, Nor are you stronger than 376 00:26:20.559 --> 00:26:24.759 I am? For in what does your strength consists? You 377 00:26:24.880 --> 00:26:27.799 can scratch with your claws and fight with your teeth, 378 00:26:28.359 --> 00:26:32.440 so can a woman in her quarrels. I repeat that 379 00:26:32.559 --> 00:26:36.319 I am altogether more powerful than you, and if you 380 00:26:36.440 --> 00:26:39.839 doubt it, let us fight and see who will conquer. 381 00:26:40.720 --> 00:26:45.000 The net. Having sounded his horn, fastened itself upon the 382 00:26:45.039 --> 00:26:49.000 lion and stung him on the nostrils. The lion, trying 383 00:26:49.039 --> 00:26:52.440 to crush him, tore himself with his claws until he 384 00:26:52.519 --> 00:26:58.039 punished himself severely. The gnat thus prevailed over the lion, and, 385 00:26:58.279 --> 00:27:02.599 buzzing about in a song of triumph, flew away. But 386 00:27:02.960 --> 00:27:06.400 shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a 387 00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:11.519 cobweb and was eaten by a spider. He greatly lamented 388 00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:14.960 his fate, saying, woe is me that I, who can 389 00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:20.599 wage war successfully with the hugest beasts, should perish myself 390 00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:27.599 from this spider. The Widow and her little Maidens. A 391 00:27:27.640 --> 00:27:31.480 widow woman fond of cleaning, had two little maidens to 392 00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:34.440 wait on her. She was in the habit of waking 393 00:27:34.440 --> 00:27:38.559 them early in the morning at cockrow. The maidens, being 394 00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:42.920 aggrieved by such excessive labor, resolved to kill the cock 395 00:27:43.039 --> 00:27:46.799 who roused their mistress so early. When they had done this, 396 00:27:47.400 --> 00:27:51.759 they found that they had only prepared for themselves greater troubles. 397 00:27:52.440 --> 00:27:56.079 For their mistress, no longer hearing the cock, was unable 398 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.119 to tell the time, and so woke them up to 399 00:27:59.160 --> 00:28:03.160 their work in the middle of the night. Unlawful acts 400 00:28:03.200 --> 00:28:10.680 to escape trials only increase our troubles. The Fox and 401 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:14.960 the Lion. A fox who had never yet seen a lion, 402 00:28:15.119 --> 00:28:17.319 when he fell in with him by a certain chance 403 00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:20.640 for the first time in the forest, was so frightened 404 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.640 that he was near dying from fear. On his meeting 405 00:28:24.680 --> 00:28:28.160 with him for the second time, he was still much alarmed, 406 00:28:28.279 --> 00:28:31.599 but not to the same extent as at first. On 407 00:28:31.720 --> 00:28:35.079 seeing him the third time, he was so increased in 408 00:28:35.160 --> 00:28:38.319 boldness that he went up to him and commenced a 409 00:28:38.359 --> 00:28:46.680 familiar conversation with him. Acquaintance softens prejudices. The town mouse 410 00:28:47.000 --> 00:28:52.599 and the country mouse. A country mouse invited a town mouse, 411 00:28:52.799 --> 00:28:56.279 an intimate friend, to pay him a visit and partake 412 00:28:56.319 --> 00:29:00.000 of his country fair. As they were on the bare plots, 413 00:29:00.799 --> 00:29:04.119 eating their wheat, stalks and roots pulled up from the hedgerow, 414 00:29:04.720 --> 00:29:07.960 the town mouse said to his friend, you live here 415 00:29:08.079 --> 00:29:12.039 the life of the ants, while in my house is 416 00:29:12.079 --> 00:29:16.039 the horn of plenty. I am surrounded with every luxury, 417 00:29:16.559 --> 00:29:18.720 and if you will come with me, as I much 418 00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:22.000 wish you would, you shall have an ample share of 419 00:29:22.039 --> 00:29:27.240 my dainties. The country mouse was easily persuaded and returned 420 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:30.400 to town with his friend. On his arrival, the town 421 00:29:30.480 --> 00:29:37.319 mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey raisins, 422 00:29:37.759 --> 00:29:41.440 and last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese 423 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:46.000 from a basket. The country mouse, being much delighted at 424 00:29:46.039 --> 00:29:49.960 the sight of such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in 425 00:29:50.039 --> 00:29:54.960 warm terms and lamented his own hard fate. Just as 426 00:29:55.039 --> 00:29:59.000 they were beginning to eat, someone opened the door, and 427 00:29:59.160 --> 00:30:02.559 they both ran off, squeaking as fast as they could, 428 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:06.319 to a hole so narrow that two could only find 429 00:30:06.440 --> 00:30:11.039 room in it by squeezing. They had scarcely again begun 430 00:30:11.119 --> 00:30:14.759 their repast when someone else entered to take something out 431 00:30:14.799 --> 00:30:17.880 of a cupboard, on which the two mice, more frightened 432 00:30:17.920 --> 00:30:22.480 than before, ran away and hid themselves. At last. The 433 00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:28.279 country mouse, almost famished, thus addressed his friend, although you 434 00:30:28.480 --> 00:30:32.039 have prepared for me so dainty a feast, I must 435 00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:35.759 leave you to enjoy it by yourself. It is surrounded 436 00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:40.319 by too many dangers to please me. Better a little 437 00:30:40.400 --> 00:30:47.079 in safety than an abundance surrounded by danger. The Monkey 438 00:30:47.319 --> 00:30:51.759 and the Dolphin, a sailor bound on a long voyage 439 00:30:52.160 --> 00:30:55.279 took with him a monkey to amuse him while on shipboard. 440 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:59.000 As he sailed off the coast of Greece, a violent 441 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.680 tempest arobe in which the ship was wrecked, and he, 442 00:31:02.880 --> 00:31:06.400 his monkey, and all the crew were obliged to swim 443 00:31:06.440 --> 00:31:10.200 for their lives. A dolphin saw the monkey contending with 444 00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:14.000 the waves, and, supposing him to be a man whom 445 00:31:14.039 --> 00:31:17.720 he has always said to befriend, came and placed himself 446 00:31:17.880 --> 00:31:20.799 under him to convey him on his back in safety 447 00:31:20.880 --> 00:31:24.400 to the shore. When the dolphin arrived with his burden, 448 00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:28.240 in sight of land not far from Athens, he demanded 449 00:31:28.279 --> 00:31:31.519 of the monkey if he were an Athenian, who answered 450 00:31:31.519 --> 00:31:34.559 that he was, and that he was descended from one 451 00:31:34.599 --> 00:31:39.359 of the noblest families in that city. The dolphin then 452 00:31:39.519 --> 00:31:43.680 inquired if he knew Piraeus, the famous harbor of Athens. 453 00:31:43.839 --> 00:31:47.039 The monkey, supposing that a man was meant and being 454 00:31:47.119 --> 00:31:51.160 obliged to support his previous lie, answered that he knew 455 00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:54.279 him very well, and that he was an intimate friend 456 00:31:54.680 --> 00:31:57.079 who would no doubt be very glad to see him. 457 00:31:57.680 --> 00:32:02.480 The dolphin, indignant at the falsehoods, dipped the monkey under 458 00:32:02.519 --> 00:32:07.519 the water and drowned him. He who once begins to 459 00:32:07.559 --> 00:32:11.400 tell falsehoods is obliged to tell others to make them 460 00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:15.519 appear true, and sooner or later they will get him 461 00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:22.960 into trouble. The game cocks and the partridge. A man 462 00:32:23.000 --> 00:32:26.480 had two game cocks in his poultry yard. One day, 463 00:32:26.519 --> 00:32:30.839 by chance, he fell in with a tame partridge for sale. 464 00:32:30.920 --> 00:32:33.720 He purchased it and brought it home that it might 465 00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.039 be reared with his game cocks. On its being put 466 00:32:37.119 --> 00:32:40.480 into the poultry yard, they struck at it and followed 467 00:32:40.519 --> 00:32:44.519 it about, so that the partridge was grievously troubled in mind, 468 00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:48.240 and supposed that he was thus badly treated because he 469 00:32:48.359 --> 00:32:52.440 was a stranger. Not long afterwards, he saw the cocks 470 00:32:52.519 --> 00:32:56.400 fighting together, and not separating before one had well beaten 471 00:32:56.480 --> 00:32:59.960 the other. He then said to himself, I shall know 472 00:33:00.079 --> 00:33:03.119 no longer distress myself at being struck at by these 473 00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.720 game cocks, when I see that they cannot even refrain 474 00:33:06.880 --> 00:33:12.000 from quarreling with each other. Strangers should avoid those who 475 00:33:12.079 --> 00:33:19.480 quarrel among themselves. The Boy and the nettle. A boy 476 00:33:19.599 --> 00:33:22.599 was stung by a nettle. He ran home and told 477 00:33:22.599 --> 00:33:25.920 his mother, saying, although it pains me so much, I 478 00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:30.440 did but touch it ever so gently. That was just it, 479 00:33:30.599 --> 00:33:33.480 said his mother, which caused it to sting you. The 480 00:33:33.599 --> 00:33:37.759 next time you touch a nettle, grasp it boldly, and 481 00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:40.559 it will be soft to silk to your hand, and 482 00:33:40.640 --> 00:33:44.799 not in the least hurt you. Whatever you do, do 483 00:33:45.000 --> 00:33:53.119 with all your might. The trumpeter taken prisoner. A trumpeter, 484 00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:56.839 bravely leading on the soldiers, was captured by the enemy. 485 00:33:57.400 --> 00:34:00.680 He cried out to his captors, praise hear me, and 486 00:34:00.759 --> 00:34:03.480 do not take my life without cause or without injury. 487 00:34:04.039 --> 00:34:06.279 I have not slain a single man of your troop. 488 00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:09.800 I have no arms, and carry nothing but this one 489 00:34:10.039 --> 00:34:13.880 brass trumpet. That is the very reason for which you 490 00:34:14.039 --> 00:34:17.159 should be put to death. They said, For while you 491 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:21.039 do not fight yourself, your loud trumpet stirs up all 492 00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:25.760 the other soldiers to battle. He who incites strife is 493 00:34:25.800 --> 00:34:33.239 as guilty as they who strive. The fatal marriage. The lion, 494 00:34:33.480 --> 00:34:36.760 touched with gratitude by the noble procedure of a mouse, 495 00:34:37.320 --> 00:34:40.320 and resolving not to be outdone in generosity by any 496 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:45.239 wild beast whatsoever, desired his little deliverer to name his 497 00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:49.000 own terms, for that he might depend upon his complying 498 00:34:49.079 --> 00:34:52.840 with any proposal he should make. The mouse fired with 499 00:34:52.920 --> 00:34:57.400 ambition at this gracious offer, did not so much consider 500 00:34:57.480 --> 00:35:00.840 what was proper for him to ask what was in 501 00:35:00.880 --> 00:35:04.559 the powers of his prince to grant, and so demanded 502 00:35:04.719 --> 00:35:10.360 his princely daughter, the young Lioness, in marriage. The lion consented, 503 00:35:10.840 --> 00:35:13.639 but when he would have given the royal virgin into 504 00:35:13.679 --> 00:35:17.159 his possession, she like a giddy thing, as she was 505 00:35:17.880 --> 00:35:21.199 not minding how she walked, by chance set her paw 506 00:35:21.360 --> 00:35:24.440 upon her spouse, who was coming to meet her, and 507 00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:30.639 crushed him to pieces. Beware of unequal matches a lions, 508 00:35:30.639 --> 00:35:37.480 as prompted by ambition, often prove fatal. The ass and 509 00:35:37.639 --> 00:35:42.559 the charger as an ass congratulated a horse on being 510 00:35:42.639 --> 00:35:47.199 so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for, while he himself had 511 00:35:47.239 --> 00:35:51.079 scarcely enough to eat, nor even that without hard work. 512 00:35:51.719 --> 00:35:55.719 But when war broke out, the heavy armed soldier mounted 513 00:35:55.760 --> 00:35:58.960 the horse and rushed into the very midst of the enemy, 514 00:35:59.480 --> 00:36:03.280 and the horse, being wounded, fell dead on the battlefield. 515 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.320 Then the ass seeing all these things, changed his mind 516 00:36:07.840 --> 00:36:12.280 and commiserated the horse, saying, how much more fortunate am 517 00:36:12.320 --> 00:36:15.519 I than a charger. I can remain at home in 518 00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:20.039 safety while he is exposed to all the perils of war. 519 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:26.800 Be not hasty to envy the condition of others. The 520 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:32.840 vain jackdaw. Jupiter determined, it is said, to create a 521 00:36:32.920 --> 00:36:36.639 sovereign over the birds, and made a proclamation that on 522 00:36:36.760 --> 00:36:40.679 a certain day they should all present themselves before him, 523 00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:44.400 when he would choose the most beautiful among them to 524 00:36:44.480 --> 00:36:49.400 be king. The jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through 525 00:36:49.440 --> 00:36:52.480 the woods and fields and collected the feathers which had 526 00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:56.000 fallen from the wings of his companions, and struck them 527 00:36:56.039 --> 00:36:59.360 to all parts of his body. When the appointed day 528 00:36:59.440 --> 00:37:03.119 arrived and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the jackdaw 529 00:37:03.280 --> 00:37:08.480 also made his appearance in his many feathered finery, on Jupiter, 530 00:37:08.679 --> 00:37:11.639 proposing to make him king on account of the beauty 531 00:37:11.679 --> 00:37:16.719 of his plumage. The birds indignantly protested, and each plucking 532 00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:21.079 from him his own feathers. The jackdaw was again nothing 533 00:37:21.280 --> 00:37:26.840 but a jackdaw, hope not to succeed in borrowed plumes. 534 00:37:28.880 --> 00:37:33.639 The milk maid and her pot of milk. A maid 535 00:37:33.760 --> 00:37:36.400 was carrying her pail of milk to the farmhouse when 536 00:37:36.440 --> 00:37:39.960 she fell amusing. The money for which this milk will 537 00:37:40.000 --> 00:37:44.679 be sold will buy at least three hundred eggs. The eggs, 538 00:37:44.800 --> 00:37:49.840 allowing for all mishaps, will produce two hundred and fifty chickens. 539 00:37:50.559 --> 00:37:53.519 The chickens will become ready for market when poultry will 540 00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:56.559 fetch the highest price, so that by the end of 541 00:37:56.599 --> 00:37:59.719 the year I shall have money enough to buy a 542 00:37:59.719 --> 00:38:03.280 new gown. In this dress, I will go to the 543 00:38:03.360 --> 00:38:07.320 Christmas junketings when all the young fellows will propose to me, 544 00:38:07.599 --> 00:38:11.760 but I will toss my head and refuse them every one. 545 00:38:12.360 --> 00:38:14.920 At this moment, she tossed her head in unison with 546 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:17.840 her thoughts. When down fell the milk pot to the 547 00:38:17.840 --> 00:38:22.119 ground and broke into a hundred pieces, and all her 548 00:38:22.199 --> 00:38:27.239 fine schemes perished in a moment. Count not your chickens 549 00:38:27.280 --> 00:38:34.519 before they are hatched. The playful ass. An ass climbed 550 00:38:34.559 --> 00:38:37.159 up to the roof of a building and frisking about 551 00:38:37.199 --> 00:38:40.960 there broke in the tiling. The owner went up after 552 00:38:41.039 --> 00:38:44.719 him and quickly drove him down, beating him severely with 553 00:38:44.800 --> 00:38:49.280 a thick wooden cudgel. The ass said, why, I saw 554 00:38:49.280 --> 00:38:52.000 the monkey do this very thing yesterday, and you all 555 00:38:52.079 --> 00:38:55.280 laughed heartily, as if it afforded you very great amusement. 556 00:38:56.840 --> 00:38:59.800 Those who do not know their right place must be 557 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:06.559 taught it. The Man and the Satyr. A man and 558 00:39:06.679 --> 00:39:10.199 a satyr once formed a bond of alliance. On a 559 00:39:10.320 --> 00:39:13.960 very cold wintery day. As they talked together, the man 560 00:39:14.079 --> 00:39:16.679 put his fingers to his mouth and blew on them 561 00:39:17.159 --> 00:39:20.559 on the satyr. Inquiring the reason, he told him that 562 00:39:20.679 --> 00:39:23.920 he did it to warm his hands. Later on in 563 00:39:23.960 --> 00:39:27.320 the day they sat down to eat the food prepared, 564 00:39:27.440 --> 00:39:31.519 being quite scalding, the man raised one of his dishes 565 00:39:31.519 --> 00:39:35.000 towards his mouth and blewe in it on the satyr. Again, 566 00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:38.239 inquiring the reason, he said that he did it to 567 00:39:38.320 --> 00:39:42.960 cool the meat. I can no longer consider you as 568 00:39:43.000 --> 00:39:46.239 a friend, said the satan. A fellow who with the 569 00:39:46.280 --> 00:39:51.119 same breath blows hot and cold. I could never trust. 570 00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:55.440 A man who talks for both sides is not to 571 00:39:55.480 --> 00:40:02.800 be trusted by either the oak and the reeds. A 572 00:40:02.960 --> 00:40:05.920 very large oak was uprooted by the wind and thrown 573 00:40:05.960 --> 00:40:09.760 across a stream. It fell among some reeds, which it 574 00:40:09.840 --> 00:40:13.760 thus addressed. I wonder how you, who are so light 575 00:40:13.840 --> 00:40:17.559 and weak, are not entirely crushed by these strong winds. 576 00:40:18.559 --> 00:40:22.760 They replied, You fight and contend with the wind, and 577 00:40:22.920 --> 00:40:27.840 consequently you are destroyed, while we, on the contrary, bend 578 00:40:28.039 --> 00:40:32.000 before the least breath of air, and therefore remain unbroken. 579 00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:41.159 Stoop to conquer the huntsmen and the fisherman. A huntsman, 580 00:40:41.480 --> 00:40:44.559 returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by 581 00:40:44.639 --> 00:40:48.119 chance with the fishermen, bringing home a basket laden with fish. 582 00:40:48.920 --> 00:40:51.599 The huntsmen wished to have the fish, and their owner 583 00:40:51.719 --> 00:40:55.039 expressed an equal longing for the contents of the game bag. 584 00:40:55.760 --> 00:40:59.679 They quickly agreed to exchange the produce of their day's sport. 585 00:41:00.280 --> 00:41:03.519 Each was so well pleased with this bargain that they 586 00:41:03.639 --> 00:41:07.679 made for some time the same exchange day after day. 587 00:41:08.360 --> 00:41:11.320 A neighbor said to them, if you go on in 588 00:41:11.400 --> 00:41:15.760 this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the 589 00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.239 pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to 590 00:41:19.280 --> 00:41:23.800 retain the fruits of his own sport. Pleasures are heightened 591 00:41:23.960 --> 00:41:32.039 by abstinence. The mother and the Wolf. A famished wolf 592 00:41:32.360 --> 00:41:35.079 was prowling about in the morning in search of food. 593 00:41:35.679 --> 00:41:37.599 As he passed the door of a cottage built in 594 00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:40.559 the forest, he heard a mother say to her child, 595 00:41:41.079 --> 00:41:44.079 be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, 596 00:41:44.159 --> 00:41:48.280 and the wolf shall eat you. The wolf sat all 597 00:41:48.400 --> 00:41:51.719 day waiting at the door. In the evening, he heard 598 00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:55.360 the same woman fondling her child and saying, he is 599 00:41:55.519 --> 00:41:58.400 quiet now, and if the wolf should come, we will 600 00:41:58.519 --> 00:42:02.960 kill him. The wolf, hearing these words, went home, gaping 601 00:42:03.079 --> 00:42:07.760 with cold and hunger. Be not in haste to believe 602 00:42:07.880 --> 00:42:13.639 what is said in anger or thoughtlessness. The shepherd and 603 00:42:13.840 --> 00:42:17.599 the Wolf. A shepherd once found a young wolf and 604 00:42:17.679 --> 00:42:20.440 brought it up, and after a while taught it to 605 00:42:20.480 --> 00:42:24.400 steal lambs from the neighboring flocks. The wolf, having shown 606 00:42:24.480 --> 00:42:28.559 himself an apt pupil, said to the shepherd, since you 607 00:42:28.719 --> 00:42:32.079 have taught me to steal, you must keep a sharp lookout, 608 00:42:32.519 --> 00:42:36.480 or you will lose some of your own flock. The 609 00:42:36.599 --> 00:42:42.880 vices we teach may be practiced against us. The dove 610 00:42:43.239 --> 00:42:47.440 and the crow. A dove shut up in a cage 611 00:42:47.800 --> 00:42:50.440 was boasting of a large number of the young ones 612 00:42:50.480 --> 00:42:53.960 which she had hatched a crow. Hearing her, said, my 613 00:42:54.119 --> 00:42:59.320 good friend, cease from this unreasonable boasting. The larger the 614 00:42:59.400 --> 00:43:02.760 number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, 615 00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:07.760 and seeing them shut up in this prison house to 616 00:43:07.960 --> 00:43:13.199 enjoy our blessings, we must have freedom. End of Section two. 617 00:43:13.800 --> 00:43:18.000 The old man and the three young men. As an 618 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:21.239 old man was planting a tree, three young men came 619 00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:24.280 along and began to make sport of him, saying, it 620 00:43:24.400 --> 00:43:28.039 shows your foolishness to be planting a tree at your age. 621 00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:31.400 The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while you 622 00:43:31.480 --> 00:43:34.440 must very soon die. What is the use of your 623 00:43:34.519 --> 00:43:37.840 wasting your time in providing pleasure for others to share 624 00:43:38.159 --> 00:43:41.880 long after you are dead. The old man stopped in 625 00:43:41.960 --> 00:43:47.239 his labor and replied, others before me provided for my happiness, 626 00:43:47.639 --> 00:43:50.280 and it is my duty to provide for those who 627 00:43:50.320 --> 00:43:53.920 shall come after me. As for life, who is sure 628 00:43:53.960 --> 00:43:57.000 of it? For a day you may all die before me. 629 00:43:57.880 --> 00:44:00.719 The old man's words came true. One of the young 630 00:44:00.800 --> 00:44:03.719 men went on a voyage at sea and was drowned, 631 00:44:04.239 --> 00:44:07.119 another went to war and was shot, and the third 632 00:44:07.280 --> 00:44:11.239 fell from a tree and broke his neck. We should 633 00:44:11.239 --> 00:44:14.840 not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember that 634 00:44:14.880 --> 00:44:22.920 life is uncertain. The lion and the Fox. A fox 635 00:44:23.159 --> 00:44:26.320 entered into partnership with the lion on the pretense of 636 00:44:26.360 --> 00:44:30.840 becoming his servant. Each undertook his proper duty in accordance 637 00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:34.519 with his own nature and powers. The fox discovered and 638 00:44:34.639 --> 00:44:37.960 pointed out the prey. The lion sprang on it and 639 00:44:38.079 --> 00:44:41.639 seized it. The fox soon became jealous of the lion, 640 00:44:41.800 --> 00:44:45.159 carrying off the lion's share, and said that he would 641 00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:48.679 no longer find out the prey, but would capture it 642 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:53.039 on his own account. The next day, he attempted to 643 00:44:53.039 --> 00:44:56.599 snatch a lamb from the fold, but fell himself a 644 00:44:56.719 --> 00:45:01.239 prey to the huntsman and his hounds, Keep to your 645 00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:07.360 place if you would succeed. The horse and the stag. 646 00:45:09.119 --> 00:45:13.599 The horse had the plane entirely to himself. A stag 647 00:45:13.719 --> 00:45:17.679 intruded into his domain and shared his pasture. The horse, 648 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:22.119 desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, requested a man 649 00:45:22.239 --> 00:45:25.239 if he were willing to help him in punishing the stag. 650 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:28.280 The man replied that if the horse would receive a 651 00:45:28.360 --> 00:45:31.519 bit in his mouth and agree to carry him, he 652 00:45:31.559 --> 00:45:36.280 would contrive very effectual weapons against the stag. The horse 653 00:45:36.400 --> 00:45:40.880 consented and allowed the man to mount him. From that hour, 654 00:45:41.559 --> 00:45:45.159 he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the stag, 655 00:45:45.639 --> 00:45:50.199 he had enslaved himself to the service of man. He 656 00:45:50.280 --> 00:45:56.440 who seeks to injure others, often injures only himself. The 657 00:45:56.519 --> 00:46:00.920 Lion and the Dolphin. A lion doming by the sea 658 00:46:00.960 --> 00:46:03.880 shore saw a dolphin lift up his head out of 659 00:46:03.880 --> 00:46:07.559 the waves and asked him to contract an alliance with him, 660 00:46:08.119 --> 00:46:10.440 saying that of all the animals they ought to be 661 00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:13.519 best friends, since the one was the king of beasts 662 00:46:13.519 --> 00:46:16.840 on the earth and the other was the sovereign ruler 663 00:46:16.920 --> 00:46:20.840 of all the inhabitants of the ocean. The dolphin gladly 664 00:46:20.920 --> 00:46:25.880 consented to this request. Not long afterwards, the lion had 665 00:46:25.880 --> 00:46:28.800 a combat with a wild bull and called on the 666 00:46:28.840 --> 00:46:32.519 dolphin to help him. The dolphin, though quite willing to 667 00:46:32.519 --> 00:46:36.119 give him assistance, was unable to do so as he 668 00:46:36.119 --> 00:46:39.719 could not by any means reach the land. The lion 669 00:46:39.880 --> 00:46:45.320 abused him as a traitor. The dolphin replied, nay, my friend, 670 00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:50.440 blame not me, but nature, which, while giving me sovereignty 671 00:46:50.480 --> 00:46:53.679 of the sea, has quite denied me the power of 672 00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:58.239 living upon the land. Let every one stick to his 673 00:46:58.519 --> 00:47:06.639 own element. The mice in council. The mice summoned a 674 00:47:06.719 --> 00:47:10.360 council to decide how they might best devise means for 675 00:47:10.559 --> 00:47:14.920 obtaining notice of the approach of their great enemy, the cat. 676 00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:18.840 Among the many plans devised, the one that found most 677 00:47:18.920 --> 00:47:22.559 favor was the proposal to tie a bell to the 678 00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:25.760 neck of the cat, that the mice, being warned by 679 00:47:25.800 --> 00:47:28.960 the sound of the tinkling, might run away and hide 680 00:47:28.960 --> 00:47:32.679 themselves in their holes at his approach. But when the 681 00:47:32.719 --> 00:47:36.679 mice further debated who among them should thus bell the cat, 682 00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:41.679 there was no one found to do it. Let those 683 00:47:41.719 --> 00:47:48.599 who propose be willing to perform. The camel and the 684 00:47:48.719 --> 00:47:56.760 a rab an Arab camel driver, having completed the lading 685 00:47:56.840 --> 00:47:59.800 of his camel, asked him which he would like best 686 00:48:00.239 --> 00:48:04.239 to go up hill or down hill? The poor beast replied, 687 00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:08.239 not without a touch of reason. Why do you ask me, 688 00:48:09.199 --> 00:48:12.159 is it that the level way through the desert is closed? 689 00:48:14.639 --> 00:48:19.800 The fighting cocks and the eagle. Two game cocks were 690 00:48:19.920 --> 00:48:24.000 fiercely fighting for the mastery of the farmyard. One at 691 00:48:24.119 --> 00:48:28.280 last put the other to flight. The vanquished cock skulked 692 00:48:28.320 --> 00:48:32.079 away and hid himself in a quiet corner. The conqueror, 693 00:48:32.320 --> 00:48:35.599 flying up to a high wall, flapped his wings and 694 00:48:35.840 --> 00:48:40.639 crowed exultingly with all his might. An eagle sailing through 695 00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:44.239 the air pounced upon him and carried him off in 696 00:48:44.320 --> 00:48:48.519 his talons. The vanquished cock immediately came out of his 697 00:48:48.599 --> 00:48:55.320 corner and ruled his forth with undisputed mastery. Pride goes 698 00:48:55.440 --> 00:49:03.280 before destruction. The Boys and the frogs. Some boys playing 699 00:49:03.360 --> 00:49:06.239 near a pond saw a number of frogs in the 700 00:49:06.280 --> 00:49:09.800 water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed 701 00:49:09.960 --> 00:49:13.320 several of them, when one of the frogs, lifting his 702 00:49:13.440 --> 00:49:16.679 head out of the water, cried out, pray, stop, my boys. 703 00:49:17.119 --> 00:49:21.440 What is sport to you is death to us. What 704 00:49:21.559 --> 00:49:25.079 we do in sport often makes great trouble for others. 705 00:49:27.320 --> 00:49:32.440 The crab and its mother. A crab said to her son, 706 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:36.760 why do you walk so one sided? My child? It 707 00:49:36.840 --> 00:49:40.199 is far more becoming to go straight forward. The young 708 00:49:40.280 --> 00:49:44.559 crab replied, quite true, dear mother, and if you will 709 00:49:44.639 --> 00:49:47.840 show me the straight way, I will promise to walk 710 00:49:47.840 --> 00:49:52.400 in it. The mother tried in vain and submitted, without 711 00:49:52.480 --> 00:49:57.280 remonstrance to the reproof of her child example is more 712 00:49:57.320 --> 00:50:04.679 powerful than precept. The wolf and the shepherd. A wolf 713 00:50:04.800 --> 00:50:07.880 followed a flock of sheep for a long time and 714 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:11.119 did not attempt to injure one of them. The shepherd 715 00:50:11.119 --> 00:50:14.199 at first stood on his guard against him as against 716 00:50:14.280 --> 00:50:17.960 an enemy, and kept a strict watch over his movements. 717 00:50:18.519 --> 00:50:21.800 But when the wolf, day after day kept in the 718 00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:24.639 company of the sheep and did not make the slightest 719 00:50:24.679 --> 00:50:27.920 effort to seize them, the shepherd began to look upon 720 00:50:28.000 --> 00:50:30.760 him as a guardian of his flock rather than as 721 00:50:30.800 --> 00:50:34.199 a plotter of evil against it, And when the occasion 722 00:50:34.320 --> 00:50:36.880 called him one day into the city, he left the 723 00:50:36.920 --> 00:50:40.880 sheep entirely in his charge. The wolf, now that he 724 00:50:40.920 --> 00:50:44.840 had the opportunity, fell upon the sheep and destroyed the 725 00:50:44.880 --> 00:50:48.199 greater part of the flock. The shepherd, on his return, 726 00:50:48.719 --> 00:50:53.400 finding his flock destroyed, exclaimed, I have been rightly served. 727 00:50:53.960 --> 00:50:58.360 Why did I trust my sheep to a wolf? An 728 00:50:58.400 --> 00:51:03.360 evil mind will show in evil action sooner or later. 729 00:51:05.239 --> 00:51:09.320 The Man and the Lion. A man and a lion 730 00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:12.719 traveled together through the forest. They soon began to boast 731 00:51:12.840 --> 00:51:16.599 their respective superiority to each other in strength and prowess, 732 00:51:17.480 --> 00:51:20.400 as they were disputing, they passed a statue carved in 733 00:51:20.519 --> 00:51:26.000 stone which represented a lion strangled by a man. The 734 00:51:26.079 --> 00:51:30.159 traveler pointed to it and said, see there, how strong 735 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:33.280 we are, and how we prevail over even the king 736 00:51:33.320 --> 00:51:38.239 of beasts. The lion replied, this statue was made by 737 00:51:38.239 --> 00:51:41.199 one of you men. If we lions knew how to 738 00:51:41.280 --> 00:51:44.519 erect statues, you will see the man placed under the 739 00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:49.280 paw of the lion. One story is good till another 740 00:51:49.559 --> 00:51:56.159 is told. The Ox and the Frog. An ox, drinking 741 00:51:56.159 --> 00:51:59.360 at a pool, trod on a brood of young frogs 742 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.480 and crushed one of them to death. The mother, coming 743 00:52:02.559 --> 00:52:06.039 up and missing one of her sons, inquired of his brothers, 744 00:52:06.079 --> 00:52:09.000 what had become of him? He is dead, dear mother, 745 00:52:09.480 --> 00:52:13.199 For just now a very huge beast with four great 746 00:52:13.239 --> 00:52:16.159 feet came to the pool and crushed him to death 747 00:52:16.280 --> 00:52:20.480 with his cloven heel. The frog, puffing herself out, inquired 748 00:52:20.519 --> 00:52:23.360 if the beast was as big as that in size? 749 00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:27.119 Cease mother to puff yourself out, said her son. And 750 00:52:27.320 --> 00:52:30.440 do not be angry for you, would, I assure you 751 00:52:30.639 --> 00:52:35.199 sooner burst than successfully imitate the hugeness of that monster. 752 00:52:36.800 --> 00:52:41.039 Impossible things we cannot hope to attain, and it is 753 00:52:41.079 --> 00:52:47.320 of no use to try. The birds, the beasts and 754 00:52:47.440 --> 00:52:51.800 the bat. The birds waged war with the beasts, and 755 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:55.880 each party were, by turns the conquerors. A bat, fearing 756 00:52:55.920 --> 00:52:59.760 the uncertain issues of the fight, always betook himself to 757 00:52:59.800 --> 00:53:04.239 the side which was the strongest. When peace was proclaimed, 758 00:53:04.800 --> 00:53:09.239 his deceitful conduct was apparent to both the combatants. He 759 00:53:09.360 --> 00:53:12.599 was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth 760 00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:17.360 concealed himself in dark hiding places, flying always alone and 761 00:53:17.679 --> 00:53:23.320 at night. Those who practice deceit must expect to be shunned. 762 00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:31.119 The charcoal burner and the fuller. A charcoal burner carried 763 00:53:31.159 --> 00:53:34.679 on his trade in his own house. One day he 764 00:53:34.760 --> 00:53:37.920 met a friend, a fuller, and entreated him to come 765 00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:40.719 and live with him, saying that they should be far 766 00:53:40.840 --> 00:53:44.880 better neighbors, and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened. 767 00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:50.000 The fuller replied, the arrangement is impossible as far as 768 00:53:50.039 --> 00:53:54.199 I am concerned. For whatever I should whiten, you would 769 00:53:54.239 --> 00:53:59.800 immediately blacken again with your charcoal, like will draw, like 770 00:54:02.360 --> 00:54:06.920 the bull and the goat. A bull escaping from a 771 00:54:06.960 --> 00:54:10.639 lion entered a cave which some shepherds had lately occupied. 772 00:54:11.199 --> 00:54:14.079 A he goat was left in it, who sharply attacked 773 00:54:14.119 --> 00:54:18.360 him with his horns. The bull quietly addressed him, but 774 00:54:18.639 --> 00:54:21.800 away as much as you will. I have no fear 775 00:54:21.840 --> 00:54:25.679 of you, but of the lion. Let that monster once go, 776 00:54:25.800 --> 00:54:28.000 and I will soon let you know what is the 777 00:54:28.039 --> 00:54:32.440 respective streadth of a goat and a bull. It shows 778 00:54:32.480 --> 00:54:36.800 an evil disposition to take advantage of a friend in distress. 779 00:54:38.360 --> 00:54:43.400 The lion and the mouse. A lion was awakened from 780 00:54:43.440 --> 00:54:46.920 sleep by a mouse running over his face. Rising up 781 00:54:46.960 --> 00:54:49.440 in anger, he caught him and was about to kill him, 782 00:54:49.880 --> 00:54:53.480 when the mouse piteously entreated, saying, if you would only 783 00:54:53.519 --> 00:54:56.760 spare my life, I would be sure to repay your kindness. 784 00:54:57.519 --> 00:55:01.519 A lion laughed and let him go. It happened shortly 785 00:55:01.559 --> 00:55:04.719 after this that the lion was caught by some hunters, 786 00:55:05.199 --> 00:55:09.320 who bound him by strong ropes to the ground. The mouse, 787 00:55:09.400 --> 00:55:12.679 recognizing his rouer, came up and gnawed the rope with 788 00:55:12.719 --> 00:55:17.559 his teeth, and setting him free. Exclaimed, you ridiculed the 789 00:55:17.599 --> 00:55:21.119 idea of my being able to help you, not expecting 790 00:55:21.159 --> 00:55:23.840 to receive from me in every payment of your favor. 791 00:55:24.360 --> 00:55:27.840 But now you know that it is possible for even 792 00:55:27.920 --> 00:55:32.480 a mouse to confer benefits on a lion. No one 793 00:55:32.599 --> 00:55:38.199 is too weak to do good. The horse and the ass. 794 00:55:39.320 --> 00:55:43.079 A horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an ass 795 00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:47.519 on the highway. The ass, being heavily ladened, moved slowly 796 00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:51.079 out of the way, hardly said the horse, can I 797 00:55:51.199 --> 00:55:55.320 resist kicking you with my heels? The ass held his 798 00:55:55.440 --> 00:55:59.280 peace and made only a silent appeal to the justice 799 00:55:59.320 --> 00:56:03.760 of the gods. Not long afterward, the horse, having become 800 00:56:03.800 --> 00:56:07.320 broken winded, was sent by his owner to the farm. 801 00:56:07.639 --> 00:56:13.719 The ass, seeing him drawing a dung cart, thus derided him, where, o, boaster, 802 00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:18.159 are now all thy gay trappings, thou, who art thyself 803 00:56:18.199 --> 00:56:23.079 reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt. 804 00:56:24.079 --> 00:56:28.840 The old hound, a hound who in the days of 805 00:56:28.880 --> 00:56:32.360 his youth and strength had never yielded to any beast 806 00:56:32.400 --> 00:56:36.000 of the forest, encountered in his old age a boar 807 00:56:36.119 --> 00:56:39.639 in the chase. He seized him boldly by the ear, 808 00:56:40.119 --> 00:56:43.239 but could not retain his hold because of the decay 809 00:56:43.280 --> 00:56:47.480 of his teeth, so that the boar escaped. His master, quickly, 810 00:56:47.480 --> 00:56:52.159 coming up, was very much disappointed and fiercely abused the dog. 811 00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:56.719 The hound looked up and said, it is not my fault. Master. 812 00:56:57.119 --> 00:56:59.920 My spirit was as good as ever, but I could 813 00:57:00.119 --> 00:57:04.119 not help mine infirmities. I rather deserve to be praised 814 00:57:04.280 --> 00:57:06.840 for what I have been than to be blamed for 815 00:57:06.880 --> 00:57:11.840 what I am. No one should be blamed for his infirmities. 816 00:57:14.280 --> 00:57:18.840 The Crow and the pitcher. A crow perishing with thirst, 817 00:57:19.280 --> 00:57:22.800 saw a pitcher, and, hoping to find water, flew to 818 00:57:22.920 --> 00:57:26.519 it with great delight. When he reached it, he discovered, 819 00:57:26.519 --> 00:57:29.920 to his grief that it contained so little water that 820 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:33.159 he could not possibly get at it. He tried everything 821 00:57:33.199 --> 00:57:35.599 he could think of to reach the water, but all 822 00:57:35.639 --> 00:57:39.800 his efforts were in vain. At last, he collected as 823 00:57:39.840 --> 00:57:42.840 many stones as he could carry and dropped them one 824 00:57:42.920 --> 00:57:46.280 by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he 825 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:51.519 brought the water within his reach, and thus saved his life. 826 00:57:51.920 --> 00:58:00.000 Necessity is the mother of invention. The ass eating thistles 827 00:57:59.760 --> 00:58:03.920 and ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, 828 00:58:04.000 --> 00:58:06.800 in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field 829 00:58:06.840 --> 00:58:10.599 for his master and the reapers to dine upon. By 830 00:58:10.639 --> 00:58:13.360 the way, he met with a fine, large thistle, and, 831 00:58:13.480 --> 00:58:17.400 being very hungry, began to mumble it and While he 832 00:58:17.480 --> 00:58:21.119 was doing so, he entered into this reflection, how many 833 00:58:21.239 --> 00:58:26.079 greedy epicures would think themselves happy amidst such delicate viands 834 00:58:26.119 --> 00:58:30.440 as I now carry. But to me, this bitter, prickly 835 00:58:30.519 --> 00:58:34.960 thistle is more savory and relishing than the most exquisite 836 00:58:35.039 --> 00:58:39.679 and sumptuous banquet. Let others choose what they may for food, 837 00:58:40.239 --> 00:58:45.039 but give me, above everything, a fine juicy thistle like this, 838 00:58:45.559 --> 00:58:50.320 and I will be content. Everyone to his taste. One 839 00:58:50.400 --> 00:58:54.360 man's meat is another man's poison, and one man's poison 840 00:58:54.639 --> 00:58:58.239 is another man's meat. What is rejected by one person 841 00:58:58.400 --> 00:59:04.559 may be valued very by another. End of Section three, 842 00:59:05.079 --> 00:59:10.559 The Wolf and the Lion, a wolf, having stolen a 843 00:59:10.639 --> 00:59:14.159 lamb from a fold, was carrying him off to his lair. 844 00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:17.880 A lion met him in the path, and, seizing the lamb, 845 00:59:18.239 --> 00:59:22.519 took it from him. The wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed, 846 00:59:23.280 --> 00:59:27.360 you have unrighteously taken from me that which was mine. 847 00:59:28.199 --> 00:59:33.880 The lion, jeeringly replied, it was righteously yours. A was 848 00:59:33.880 --> 00:59:36.400 it the gift of a friend or did you get 849 00:59:36.440 --> 00:59:39.400 it by purchase? If you did not get it in 850 00:59:39.480 --> 00:59:42.320 one way or the other, how then did you come 851 00:59:42.360 --> 00:59:49.039 by it, one thief is no better than another. The 852 00:59:49.159 --> 00:59:55.000 king's son and the painted lion. A king who had 853 00:59:55.079 --> 00:59:59.840 only one son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream 854 01:00:00.119 --> 01:00:02.840 which he was warned that his son would be killed 855 01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:07.079 by a lion. Afraid lest the dream should prove true, 856 01:00:07.639 --> 01:00:11.079 he built for his son a pleasant palace and darned 857 01:00:11.079 --> 01:00:14.360 its walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals 858 01:00:14.400 --> 01:00:17.800 of the size of life, among which was the picture 859 01:00:17.880 --> 01:00:21.159 of a lion. When the young prince saw this, his 860 01:00:21.280 --> 01:00:26.199 grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and standing 861 01:00:26.239 --> 01:00:31.320 near the lion, he thus spoke, O you, most detestable 862 01:00:31.320 --> 01:00:35.920 of animals, through a lying dream of my father's which 863 01:00:35.960 --> 01:00:39.039 he saw in his sleep, I am shut up on 864 01:00:39.159 --> 01:00:41.440 your account in this palace, as if I had been 865 01:00:41.480 --> 01:00:45.800 a girl. What shall I now do to you? With 866 01:00:45.960 --> 01:00:50.719 these words? He stretched out his hands toward a thorn tree, 867 01:00:50.719 --> 01:00:53.199 meaning to cut a stick from its branches that he 868 01:00:53.280 --> 01:00:56.920 might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles 869 01:00:56.960 --> 01:01:01.400 pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so 870 01:01:01.440 --> 01:01:04.280 that the young prince fell down in a fainting fit. 871 01:01:04.960 --> 01:01:08.280 A violent fever suddenly set in from which he died 872 01:01:08.639 --> 01:01:13.079 not many days later. We had better bear our troubles 873 01:01:13.119 --> 01:01:20.360 bravely than try to escape them. The trees and the Axe. 874 01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:24.199 A man came into a forest and made a petition 875 01:01:24.320 --> 01:01:27.440 to the trees to provide him a handle for his axe. 876 01:01:27.960 --> 01:01:30.880 The trees consented to his request and gave him a 877 01:01:30.920 --> 01:01:34.719 young ash tree. No sooner had the man fitted from 878 01:01:34.800 --> 01:01:37.800 it a new handle to his axe, than he began 879 01:01:37.880 --> 01:01:41.159 to use it, and quickly felled with his strokes the 880 01:01:41.199 --> 01:01:45.880 noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when 881 01:01:45.920 --> 01:01:49.400 too late the destruction of his companions, said to a 882 01:01:49.440 --> 01:01:54.800 neighboring cedar, the first step has lost us all. If 883 01:01:54.840 --> 01:01:57.280 we had not given up the rights of the ash, 884 01:01:57.880 --> 01:02:01.360 we might yet have retained our own privileges, and have 885 01:02:01.480 --> 01:02:06.519 stood for ages. In yielding the rights of others, we 886 01:02:06.639 --> 01:02:15.320 may endanger our own. The seaside travelers. Some travelers journeying 887 01:02:15.360 --> 01:02:19.639 along the seashore climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and, 888 01:02:19.760 --> 01:02:23.000 from thence, looking over the sea, saw in the distance 889 01:02:23.000 --> 01:02:26.119 what they thought was a large ship, and waited in 890 01:02:26.159 --> 01:02:28.840 the hope of seeing it enter the harbor. But as 891 01:02:28.880 --> 01:02:31.599 the object on which they looked was driven by the wind. 892 01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.800 Nearer to the shore, they found that it could be 893 01:02:34.840 --> 01:02:38.480 at most a small boat, and not a ship. When, however, 894 01:02:38.559 --> 01:02:41.920 it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only 895 01:02:42.000 --> 01:02:45.280 a large fagot of sticks. And one of them said 896 01:02:45.280 --> 01:02:48.920 to his companions, we have waited for no purpose, for 897 01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.480 after all there was nothing to see but a fagot. 898 01:02:54.039 --> 01:03:01.199 Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. The seagull 899 01:03:01.400 --> 01:03:05.760 and the kite. A seagull, who was born at home 900 01:03:05.840 --> 01:03:09.119 swimming on the sea than walking on the land, was 901 01:03:09.159 --> 01:03:11.880 in the habit of catching live fish for its food. 902 01:03:12.679 --> 01:03:16.440 One day, having bolted down too large a fish, it 903 01:03:16.559 --> 01:03:19.559 burst its deep gullic bag and lay down on the 904 01:03:19.599 --> 01:03:23.599 shore to die. A kite, seeing him, and thinking him 905 01:03:23.599 --> 01:03:27.760 a land bird like itself, exclaimed, you richly deserve your fate, 906 01:03:28.519 --> 01:03:31.000 for a bird of the air has no business to 907 01:03:31.039 --> 01:03:35.280 seek its food from the sea. Every man should be 908 01:03:35.320 --> 01:03:41.960 content to mind his own business. The monkey and the camel, 909 01:03:43.760 --> 01:03:47.159 the beasts of the forest gave a splendid entertainment at 910 01:03:47.159 --> 01:03:51.039 which the monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighted 911 01:03:51.039 --> 01:03:56.039 the assembly, he sat down amidst universal applause. The camel, 912 01:03:56.519 --> 01:04:00.400 envious of the praises bestowed upon the monkey and thes miers, 913 01:04:00.480 --> 01:04:04.280 to divert to himself the favor of the guests, proposed 914 01:04:04.360 --> 01:04:08.000 to stand up in his turn and dance for their amusement. 915 01:04:08.119 --> 01:04:11.840 He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner that 916 01:04:11.920 --> 01:04:15.679 the beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him 917 01:04:15.679 --> 01:04:20.000 with clubs and drove him out of the assembly. It 918 01:04:20.199 --> 01:04:27.199 is absurd to ape our betters. The rat and the elephant. 919 01:04:28.400 --> 01:04:32.159 A rat traveling on the highway met a huge elephant 920 01:04:32.440 --> 01:04:36.119 bearing his royal master and his suite, and also his 921 01:04:36.199 --> 01:04:39.559 favorite cat and dog, and parrot and monkey. The great 922 01:04:39.679 --> 01:04:43.679 beast and his attendants were followed by an admiring crowd, 923 01:04:43.840 --> 01:04:47.400 taking up all of the road. What fools you are, 924 01:04:47.880 --> 01:04:50.039 said the rat to the people, to make such a 925 01:04:50.159 --> 01:04:53.800 hubbub over an elephant. Is it his great bulk that 926 01:04:53.880 --> 01:04:58.039 you so much admire? It can only frighten little boys 927 01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:01.360 and girls. And I can do that as well. I 928 01:05:01.400 --> 01:05:03.320 am a beast as well as he, and have as 929 01:05:03.360 --> 01:05:07.639 many legs and ears and eyes. He has no right 930 01:05:07.800 --> 01:05:10.679 to take up all the highway, which belongs as much 931 01:05:10.760 --> 01:05:14.119 to me as to him. At this moment the cat 932 01:05:14.239 --> 01:05:18.000 spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced 933 01:05:18.039 --> 01:05:22.480 him that he was not an elephant. Because we are 934 01:05:22.679 --> 01:05:25.440 like the great in one respect, we must not think 935 01:05:25.519 --> 01:05:31.519 we are like them in all. The Fisherman piping, a 936 01:05:31.599 --> 01:05:35.079 fisherman skilled in music, took his flute and his nets 937 01:05:35.199 --> 01:05:39.000 to the sea shore. Standing on a projecting rock, he 938 01:05:39.119 --> 01:05:42.320 played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted 939 01:05:42.360 --> 01:05:46.360 by his melody would, of their own accord, dance into 940 01:05:46.400 --> 01:05:50.320 his net, which he had placed below. At last, having 941 01:05:50.519 --> 01:05:54.559 long waited in vain, he laid aside his flute, and, 942 01:05:55.079 --> 01:05:58.800 casting his net into the sea, made an excellent hall. 943 01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:06.440 The Wolf and the house Dog. A wolf meeting with 944 01:06:06.519 --> 01:06:10.119 a big, well fed mastiff, having a wooden collar about 945 01:06:10.119 --> 01:06:13.199 his neck, inquired of him who it was that fed 946 01:06:13.280 --> 01:06:16.000 him so well, and yet compelled him to drag that 947 01:06:16.079 --> 01:06:20.559 heavy log about wherever he went. The master, he replied, 948 01:06:21.199 --> 01:06:24.800 then said the wolf, may no friend of mine ever 949 01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:27.360 be in such a plight, for the weight of this 950 01:06:27.599 --> 01:06:32.320 chain is enough to spoil the appetite. Nothing can compensate 951 01:06:32.480 --> 01:06:37.440 us for the loss of our liberty. The Eagle and 952 01:06:37.599 --> 01:06:42.440 the kite an eagle overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the 953 01:06:42.440 --> 01:06:45.840 branches of a tree in company with the kite. Why, 954 01:06:46.400 --> 01:06:49.039 said the kite, do I see you with such a 955 01:06:49.239 --> 01:06:54.480 rueful look? I seek, she replied, for a mate suitable 956 01:06:54.519 --> 01:06:58.119 for me, and am not able to find one. Take me, 957 01:06:58.639 --> 01:07:01.480 returned the kite. I am much stronger than you are. 958 01:07:02.239 --> 01:07:04.760 Why are you able to secure the means of living 959 01:07:04.800 --> 01:07:08.880 by your plunder? Well? I have often caught and carried 960 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:13.880 away an ostrich in my talons. The eagle, persuaded by 961 01:07:13.920 --> 01:07:18.719 these words, accepted him as her mate. Shortly after the nuptials, 962 01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:21.719 the eagle said, fly off and bring me back the 963 01:07:21.760 --> 01:07:25.760 ostriche you promised me. The kight, soaring aloft into the air, 964 01:07:26.239 --> 01:07:31.480 brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. Is this, said the eagle, 965 01:07:32.079 --> 01:07:36.000 the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me? The kit 966 01:07:36.159 --> 01:07:40.400 replied that I might attain to your royal hand, and 967 01:07:40.480 --> 01:07:43.519 there is nothing that I would not have promised. However 968 01:07:43.639 --> 01:07:46.360 much I knew that I must fail in the performance. 969 01:07:47.639 --> 01:07:53.719 Promises of a suitor must be taken with caution. The 970 01:07:53.880 --> 01:07:58.840 dogs and the hides. Some dogs, famished with hunger, saw 971 01:07:58.880 --> 01:08:02.480 some cow hides steeping in the river, not being able 972 01:08:02.519 --> 01:08:05.440 to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river, 973 01:08:05.920 --> 01:08:08.760 but it fell out that they burst themselves with drinking 974 01:08:09.000 --> 01:08:17.279 long before they reached the hides. Attempt not impossibilities. The 975 01:08:17.439 --> 01:08:22.399 fisherman and the little fish. A fisherman who lived on 976 01:08:22.439 --> 01:08:25.520 the produce of his nets, one day caught a single 977 01:08:25.680 --> 01:08:29.640 small fish as the results of his day's labor. The fish, 978 01:08:29.800 --> 01:08:35.159 panting convulsively, thus entreated for his life. Oh sir, what 979 01:08:35.319 --> 01:08:38.159 good can I be to you? And how little am 980 01:08:38.159 --> 01:08:42.239 I worth? I am not yet come to my full size. Pray, 981 01:08:42.560 --> 01:08:45.000 spare my life and put me back into the sea. 982 01:08:45.399 --> 01:08:48.520 I shall soon become a large fish, fit for the 983 01:08:48.520 --> 01:08:51.600 tables of the rich, and then you can catch me 984 01:08:51.720 --> 01:08:56.600 again and make a handsome profit of me. The fisherman replied, 985 01:08:57.560 --> 01:09:00.520 I should be a very simple fellow if I were 986 01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:06.520 to forego by certain gain for an uncertain prophet. The 987 01:09:06.880 --> 01:09:12.279 ass and his purchaser. A man wished to purchase an ass, 988 01:09:12.399 --> 01:09:15.239 and agreed with its owner that he should try him 989 01:09:15.319 --> 01:09:18.359 before he bought him. He took the ass home and 990 01:09:18.520 --> 01:09:21.239 put him in the straw yard with his other asses, 991 01:09:21.760 --> 01:09:24.720 upon which he left all the others and joined himself 992 01:09:24.760 --> 01:09:28.800 at once to the most idle and the greediest eater 993 01:09:28.920 --> 01:09:32.079 of them all. The man put a halter on him 994 01:09:32.119 --> 01:09:35.560 and led him back to his owner, saying, I do 995 01:09:35.640 --> 01:09:38.840 not need a trial. I know that he will be 996 01:09:39.159 --> 01:09:41.880 just such another as the one whom he chose for 997 01:09:41.960 --> 01:09:48.239 his companion. A man is known by the company he keeps, 998 01:09:49.399 --> 01:09:54.239 the shepherd and the sheep. A shepherd, driving his sheep 999 01:09:54.279 --> 01:09:57.920 to a wood, saw an oak of unusual size full 1000 01:09:57.960 --> 01:10:02.359 of acorns, and spread his cloak under the branches. He 1001 01:10:02.479 --> 01:10:05.720 climbed up into the tree and shook down the acorns. 1002 01:10:06.600 --> 01:10:10.439 The sheep, eating the acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. 1003 01:10:11.039 --> 01:10:14.399 The shepherd, coming down, and seeing what they had done, said, O, 1004 01:10:14.720 --> 01:10:19.159 you most ungrateful creatures. You provide wool to make garments 1005 01:10:19.199 --> 01:10:22.439 for all other men, but you destroy the clothes of 1006 01:10:22.520 --> 01:10:27.319 him who feed you. The basest ingratitude is that which 1007 01:10:27.359 --> 01:10:33.319 injures those who serve us. The fox and the crow. 1008 01:10:35.039 --> 01:10:38.399 A crow, having stolen a bit of meat, perched in 1009 01:10:38.479 --> 01:10:41.239 a tree and held it in her beak. A fox, 1010 01:10:41.359 --> 01:10:45.239 seeing her, longed to possess himself of the meat, and 1011 01:10:45.399 --> 01:10:50.439 by a wily stratagem, succeeded. How handsome is the crow, 1012 01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:54.359 he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape, and in 1013 01:10:54.439 --> 01:10:57.880 the fairness of her complexion. Oh, if her voice were 1014 01:10:58.000 --> 01:11:02.279 only equal to her beauty, she would deservedly be considered 1015 01:11:02.319 --> 01:11:07.840 the queen of birds. This he said, deceitfully, having greater 1016 01:11:08.000 --> 01:11:11.800 admiration for the meat than for the crow. But the crow, 1017 01:11:12.039 --> 01:11:16.239 all her vanity, aroused by the cunning flattery, and anxious 1018 01:11:16.279 --> 01:11:19.840 to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up 1019 01:11:19.880 --> 01:11:24.720 a loud caw and dropped the meat. The fox quickly 1020 01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:28.359 picked it up, and thus addressed the crow, My good crow, 1021 01:11:29.000 --> 01:11:32.720 Your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting. 1022 01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:38.079 He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it 1023 01:11:38.159 --> 01:11:44.960 has no good purpose. The swallow and the crow. The 1024 01:11:45.119 --> 01:11:48.520 swallow and the crow had a contention about their plumage. 1025 01:11:49.000 --> 01:11:52.119 The crow put an end to the dispute by saying, 1026 01:11:52.800 --> 01:11:55.600 your feathers are all very well in the spring, but 1027 01:11:55.880 --> 01:12:00.319 mine protect me against the winter. Fine weather, friends are 1028 01:12:00.399 --> 01:12:07.119 not worth much. The hen and the golden eggs. A 1029 01:12:07.239 --> 01:12:10.720 cottager and his wife had a hen which laid every 1030 01:12:10.840 --> 01:12:15.600 day a golden egg. They supposed that it must contain 1031 01:12:15.640 --> 01:12:19.039 a great lump of gold in its inside, and killed 1032 01:12:19.079 --> 01:12:21.960 it in order that they might get it, when to 1033 01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:24.880 their surprise they found that the hen differed in no 1034 01:12:25.119 --> 01:12:30.039 respect from their other hens. The foolish pair, thus hoping 1035 01:12:30.079 --> 01:12:33.800 to become rich, all at once deprived themselves of the 1036 01:12:33.840 --> 01:12:38.880 gain of which they were day by day assured. The 1037 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:43.800 old man and death. An old man was employed in 1038 01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:47.239 cutting wood in the forest and in carrying the faggots 1039 01:12:47.279 --> 01:12:51.119 into the city for sale. One day, being very wearied 1040 01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:54.640 with his long journey, he sat down by the wayside, and, 1041 01:12:54.920 --> 01:13:00.319 throwing down his load, besought death to come. Death immediately 1042 01:13:00.359 --> 01:13:03.760 appeared in answer to his summons, and asked for what 1043 01:13:03.960 --> 01:13:07.960 reason he had called him. The old man replied, that, 1044 01:13:08.239 --> 01:13:11.479 lifting up the load, you may place it again upon 1045 01:13:11.520 --> 01:13:16.119 my shoulders. We do not always like to be taken 1046 01:13:16.319 --> 01:13:22.920 at our word. The fox and the leopard. The fox 1047 01:13:22.960 --> 01:13:25.880 and the leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of 1048 01:13:25.880 --> 01:13:30.079 the two. The leopard exhibited one by one the various 1049 01:13:30.119 --> 01:13:34.600 spots which decorated his skin. The fox, interrupting him, said, 1050 01:13:35.159 --> 01:13:38.439 and how much more beautiful than you am, I, who 1051 01:13:38.520 --> 01:13:43.279 am decorated not in body but in mind. People are 1052 01:13:43.279 --> 01:13:47.960 not to be judged by their coats. The mountain in 1053 01:13:48.159 --> 01:13:54.680 labor a mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and 1054 01:13:54.800 --> 01:13:58.359 noises were heard, and crowds of people came from all 1055 01:13:58.439 --> 01:14:01.640 parts to see what was the matter. While they were 1056 01:14:01.680 --> 01:14:06.800 assembled in anxious expectation of some terrible calamity, out came 1057 01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:14.439 a mouse. Don't make much ado about nothing. End of 1058 01:14:14.520 --> 01:14:19.359 Section four. The Bear and the two travelers. Two men 1059 01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:22.159 were traveling together when a bear suddenly met them on 1060 01:14:22.199 --> 01:14:25.239 their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a 1061 01:14:25.279 --> 01:14:29.960 tree and concealed himself in the branches. The other, seeing 1062 01:14:30.000 --> 01:14:33.319 that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, 1063 01:14:33.359 --> 01:14:35.840 And when the bear came up and felt him with 1064 01:14:35.920 --> 01:14:39.479 his snout and smelt him all over, he held his 1065 01:14:39.600 --> 01:14:43.439 breath and feigned the appearance of death as much as 1066 01:14:43.479 --> 01:14:47.520 he could. The bear soon left him, for it is 1067 01:14:47.560 --> 01:14:50.840 said he will not touch a dead body. When he 1068 01:14:50.920 --> 01:14:54.239 was quite gone, the other traveler descended from the tree, and, 1069 01:14:54.479 --> 01:14:59.319 accosting his friend, jocularly inquired what it was the bear 1070 01:14:59.359 --> 01:15:03.479 had whispered in his ear. His friend replied, he gave 1071 01:15:03.560 --> 01:15:07.439 me this advice. Never travel with a friend who deserts 1072 01:15:07.439 --> 01:15:12.159 you at the approach of danger. Misfortune tests the sincerity 1073 01:15:12.199 --> 01:15:18.640 of friends. The sick kite. A kite sick unto death 1074 01:15:18.760 --> 01:15:22.479 said to his mother, O, mother, do not mourn, but 1075 01:15:22.600 --> 01:15:25.920 at once invoked the gods that my life may be prolonged. 1076 01:15:26.720 --> 01:15:30.600 She replied, alas, my son, which of the gods do 1077 01:15:30.680 --> 01:15:34.039 you think will pity you? Is there one whom you 1078 01:15:34.359 --> 01:15:38.520 have not outraged by filching from their very altars a 1079 01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:42.039 part of the sacrifice which had been offered up to them. 1080 01:15:42.640 --> 01:15:46.159 We must make friends in prosperity, if we would have 1081 01:15:46.239 --> 01:15:53.760 their help in adversity. The wolf and the crane. A wolf, 1082 01:15:53.880 --> 01:15:57.359 having a bone stuck in his throat, hired a crane 1083 01:15:57.399 --> 01:16:00.720 for a large sum to put her head into his 1084 01:16:00.840 --> 01:16:03.960 throat and draw out the bone. When the crane had 1085 01:16:04.000 --> 01:16:07.720 extracted the bone and demanded the promised payment, the wolf, 1086 01:16:07.840 --> 01:16:12.319 grinning and grinding his teeth, exclaimed, why you have surely 1087 01:16:12.439 --> 01:16:16.520 already a sufficient recompense in having been permitted to draw 1088 01:16:16.600 --> 01:16:19.359 out your head in safety from the mouth and jaws 1089 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:24.760 of a wolf. In serving the wicked, expect no reward, 1090 01:16:25.439 --> 01:16:28.720 and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains. 1091 01:16:31.199 --> 01:16:36.199 The cat and the cock. A cat caught a cock 1092 01:16:36.479 --> 01:16:39.600 and took counsel with himself. How he might find a 1093 01:16:39.800 --> 01:16:43.720 reasonable excuse for eating him. He accused him of being 1094 01:16:43.760 --> 01:16:46.880 a nuisance to men by crowing in the night time 1095 01:16:47.359 --> 01:16:51.159 and not permitting them to sleep. The cock defended himself 1096 01:16:51.199 --> 01:16:53.720 by saying that he did this for the benefit of men, 1097 01:16:54.279 --> 01:16:58.600 that they might rise betimes for their labors. The cat replied, 1098 01:16:59.279 --> 01:17:05.079 although you abound in specious apologies, I shall not remain supperless, 1099 01:17:05.640 --> 01:17:09.479 and he made a meal of him. It does no 1100 01:17:09.640 --> 01:17:15.520 good to deny those who make false accusations knowingly. The 1101 01:17:15.600 --> 01:17:19.800 wolf and the horse. A wolf coming out of a 1102 01:17:19.840 --> 01:17:23.479 field of oats, met with the horse, and thus addressed him. 1103 01:17:24.079 --> 01:17:27.479 I would advise you to go into that field. It 1104 01:17:27.560 --> 01:17:31.479 is full of capital oats, which I have left untouched 1105 01:17:31.520 --> 01:17:34.720 for you, as you are a friend, the very sound 1106 01:17:34.720 --> 01:17:37.159 of whose teeth it would be a pleasure to me 1107 01:17:37.479 --> 01:17:41.600 to hear. The horse replied, if oats had been the 1108 01:17:41.640 --> 01:17:45.680 food for wolves, you would never have indulged your ears 1109 01:17:45.720 --> 01:17:50.039 at the cost of your belly. Men of evil reputation, 1110 01:17:50.359 --> 01:17:53.560 when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit 1111 01:17:53.640 --> 01:17:59.479 for it. The two soldiers and the robber. Two soldiers 1112 01:17:59.560 --> 01:18:03.520 traveling together were set upon by a robber. The one 1113 01:18:03.640 --> 01:18:07.520 fled away, the other stood his ground and defended himself 1114 01:18:07.560 --> 01:18:11.880 with his stout right hand. The robber being slain, the 1115 01:18:12.079 --> 01:18:15.600 timid companion runs up and draws his sword, and then, 1116 01:18:15.840 --> 01:18:19.520 throwing back his traveling cloak, says, I'll be at him, 1117 01:18:19.520 --> 01:18:22.039 and I'll take care he shall learn whom he has 1118 01:18:22.079 --> 01:18:26.399 attacked on this He who had fought with the robber 1119 01:18:26.479 --> 01:18:29.640 made answer, I only wish that you had helped me 1120 01:18:29.880 --> 01:18:33.399 just now, even if it had only been with those words, 1121 01:18:33.960 --> 01:18:37.399 for I should have been the more encouraged, believing them 1122 01:18:37.399 --> 01:18:40.840 to be true. But now put up your sword in 1123 01:18:40.880 --> 01:18:45.319 its sheath and hold your equally useless tongue till you 1124 01:18:45.399 --> 01:18:49.159 can deceive. Others who do not know you. I indeed, 1125 01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:53.560 who have experienced with what speed you ran away, know 1126 01:18:53.880 --> 01:18:57.680 right well that no dependence can be placed on your valor. 1127 01:18:59.039 --> 01:19:02.560 When a coward is once found out, his pretensions of 1128 01:19:02.680 --> 01:19:09.840 valor are useless. The monkey and the cat a monkey 1129 01:19:09.880 --> 01:19:12.760 and a cat lived in the same family, and it 1130 01:19:12.840 --> 01:19:16.560 was hard to tell which was the greatest thief. One day, 1131 01:19:16.640 --> 01:19:20.359 as they were roaming about together, they spied some chestnuts 1132 01:19:20.479 --> 01:19:24.479 roasting in the ashes. Come, said the cunning monkey, we 1133 01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:28.159 shall not go without our dinner to day your claws 1134 01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:31.039 are better than mine. For the purpose you pulled them 1135 01:19:31.079 --> 01:19:33.720 out of the hot ashes, and you shall have half 1136 01:19:34.520 --> 01:19:37.720 pussy pulled them out one by one, burning her claws 1137 01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:41.279 very much in doing so. When she had stolen them all, 1138 01:19:41.760 --> 01:19:46.479 she found that the monkey had eaten every one. A 1139 01:19:46.560 --> 01:19:52.560 thief cannot be trusted even by another thief. The two 1140 01:19:52.640 --> 01:19:57.880 frogs two frogs dwelt in the same pool, the pool 1141 01:19:57.960 --> 01:20:00.720 being dried up under the summer's heat, they left it 1142 01:20:00.800 --> 01:20:04.479 and set out together for another home. As they went along, 1143 01:20:04.600 --> 01:20:08.680 they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water. 1144 01:20:09.199 --> 01:20:11.560 On seeing which one of the frogs said to the other, 1145 01:20:12.239 --> 01:20:14.920 let us descend and make our boat in this well. 1146 01:20:15.520 --> 01:20:19.520 The other replied with greater caution. But suppose the water 1147 01:20:19.600 --> 01:20:22.439 should fail us, how can we get out again from 1148 01:20:22.479 --> 01:20:27.039 so great a depth? Do nothing without a regard to 1149 01:20:27.079 --> 01:20:34.239 the consequences. The vine and the goat. A vine was 1150 01:20:34.399 --> 01:20:37.640 luxuriant in the time of vintage, with leaves and grapes. 1151 01:20:38.159 --> 01:20:42.039 A goat passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves. 1152 01:20:42.640 --> 01:20:45.680 The vine said, why do you thus injure me and 1153 01:20:45.800 --> 01:20:49.800 crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But 1154 01:20:49.920 --> 01:20:52.840 I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge. 1155 01:20:53.319 --> 01:20:56.199 For if you now crop my leaves and cut me 1156 01:20:56.279 --> 01:20:59.479 down to my root, I shall provide the wine to 1157 01:20:59.560 --> 01:21:02.199 pour over you when you were led as a victim 1158 01:21:02.319 --> 01:21:09.159 to the sacrifice. Retribution is certain. The mouse and the 1159 01:21:09.199 --> 01:21:13.520 boasting rat. A mouse lived in a granary which became, 1160 01:21:13.680 --> 01:21:17.399 after a while, the frequent resort of a cat. The 1161 01:21:17.479 --> 01:21:19.560 mouse was in great fear and did not know what 1162 01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:23.359 to do. In her strait. She bethought herself of a 1163 01:21:23.520 --> 01:21:27.199 rat who lived not far away, and who had said 1164 01:21:27.199 --> 01:21:30.079 in her hearing a hundred times that he was not 1165 01:21:30.159 --> 01:21:34.000 afraid of any cat living. She resolved to visit the 1166 01:21:34.039 --> 01:21:36.960 bold rat and ask him to drive the cat away. 1167 01:21:37.800 --> 01:21:41.319 She found the rat in his hold, and, relating her story, 1168 01:21:41.399 --> 01:21:45.239 besought his help. Pooh, said the rat, you should be 1169 01:21:45.319 --> 01:21:48.760 bold as I am. Go straight about your affairs, and 1170 01:21:48.880 --> 01:21:52.319 do not mind the cat. I will soon follow you 1171 01:21:52.680 --> 01:21:56.000 and drive him away. He thought, now he must do 1172 01:21:56.119 --> 01:21:59.239 something to make good his boast, so he collected all 1173 01:21:59.279 --> 01:22:02.720 the rats in the neighborhood resolved to frighten the cat 1174 01:22:02.800 --> 01:22:06.439 by numbers. But when they all came to the granary, 1175 01:22:06.880 --> 01:22:10.479 they found that the cat had already caught the foolish mouse, 1176 01:22:11.079 --> 01:22:15.119 and a single growl from him sent them all scampering 1177 01:22:15.159 --> 01:22:21.680 to their holes. Do not rely on a boaster. The 1178 01:22:21.800 --> 01:22:26.079 dogs and the fox. Some dogs, finding the skin of 1179 01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:29.319 a lion, began to tear it in pieces with their teeth. 1180 01:22:29.840 --> 01:22:34.000 A fox, seeing them, said, if this lion were alive, 1181 01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:37.439 you would soon find out that his claws were stronger 1182 01:22:37.479 --> 01:22:41.159 than your teeth. It is easy to kick a man 1183 01:22:41.319 --> 01:22:47.600 that is down. The thief and the house dog. A 1184 01:22:47.680 --> 01:22:50.359 thief came in the night to break into a house. 1185 01:22:50.920 --> 01:22:53.760 He brought with him several slices of meat that he 1186 01:22:53.880 --> 01:22:56.680 might pacify the house dog, so that he should not 1187 01:22:56.760 --> 01:23:01.159 alarm his master by barking. As through the pieces of meat, 1188 01:23:01.560 --> 01:23:05.359 the dog said, if you think to stop my mouth, 1189 01:23:05.520 --> 01:23:09.000 to relax my vigilance, or even to gain my regard 1190 01:23:09.119 --> 01:23:13.920 by these gifts, you are greatly mistaken. This sudden kindness 1191 01:23:13.920 --> 01:23:17.600 at your hands will only make me more watchful, lest 1192 01:23:17.680 --> 01:23:21.000 under these unexpected favors to myself, you have some private 1193 01:23:21.199 --> 01:23:24.279 ends to accomplish for your own benefit and for my 1194 01:23:24.399 --> 01:23:28.399 master's injury. Besides, this is not the time that I 1195 01:23:28.439 --> 01:23:32.520 am usually fed, which makes me all the more suspicious 1196 01:23:32.560 --> 01:23:38.319 of your intentions. He who offers bribes needs watching, for 1197 01:23:38.439 --> 01:23:46.479 his intentions are not honest. The sick Stag a six 1198 01:23:46.520 --> 01:23:50.279 stag lay down in a quiet corner of his pasture ground. 1199 01:23:50.840 --> 01:23:54.479 His companions came in great numbers to inquire after his health, 1200 01:23:54.840 --> 01:23:57.800 and each one helped himself to a share of the 1201 01:23:57.840 --> 01:24:00.920 food which had been placed for his youth use, so 1202 01:24:00.960 --> 01:24:04.640 that he died not from his sickness, but from the 1203 01:24:04.680 --> 01:24:09.720 failure of the means of living. Evil companions bring more 1204 01:24:09.800 --> 01:24:16.479 hurt than profit. The Fowler and the ring Dove. A 1205 01:24:16.560 --> 01:24:19.319 fowler took his gun and went into the woods a shooting. 1206 01:24:19.800 --> 01:24:22.560 He spied a ringdove among the branches of an oak, 1207 01:24:22.960 --> 01:24:26.159 and intended to kill it. He clapped the piece to 1208 01:24:26.239 --> 01:24:30.039 his shoulder and took his aim accordingly. But just as 1209 01:24:30.079 --> 01:24:32.960 he was going to pull the trigger, an adder which 1210 01:24:33.000 --> 01:24:36.359 he had trod upon under the grass, stung him so 1211 01:24:36.560 --> 01:24:39.239 painfully in the leg that he was forced to quit 1212 01:24:39.239 --> 01:24:42.520 his design and threw his gun down in a passion. 1213 01:24:43.199 --> 01:24:47.239 The poison immediately infected his blood, and his whole body 1214 01:24:47.319 --> 01:24:51.439 began to mortify, which when he perceived, he could not help, 1215 01:24:51.520 --> 01:24:55.560 owning it to be just fate. Said, he has brought 1216 01:24:55.600 --> 01:24:59.880 destruction upon me while I was contriving the death of another. 1217 01:25:01.159 --> 01:25:06.239 Men often fall into the trap which they prepare for others. 1218 01:25:07.199 --> 01:25:12.239 The Kid and the Wolf. A kid returning without protection 1219 01:25:12.359 --> 01:25:16.000 from the pasture, was pursued by a wolf. He turned 1220 01:25:16.079 --> 01:25:19.239 round and said to the wolf, I know, friend, wolf, 1221 01:25:19.319 --> 01:25:22.479 that I must be your prey. But before I die, 1222 01:25:22.600 --> 01:25:25.880 I would ask of you one favor, that you will 1223 01:25:25.920 --> 01:25:28.960 play me a tune to which I can dance. The 1224 01:25:29.000 --> 01:25:32.680 wolf complied, and while he was piping and the kid 1225 01:25:32.720 --> 01:25:36.079 was dancing, the hounds, hearing the sound, came up and 1226 01:25:36.199 --> 01:25:39.840 gave chase to the wolf. The wolf, turning to the kid, said, 1227 01:25:40.439 --> 01:25:43.880 it is just what I deserve for I, who am 1228 01:25:43.960 --> 01:25:47.600 only a butcher, should not have turned piper to please you. 1229 01:25:49.199 --> 01:25:55.319 Every One should keep his own colors. The blind man 1230 01:25:55.479 --> 01:26:00.479 and the whelp. A blind man was accustomed to distinguishing 1231 01:26:00.560 --> 01:26:03.880 different animals by touching them with his hands. The whelp 1232 01:26:03.960 --> 01:26:06.640 of a wolf was brought him with a request that 1233 01:26:06.680 --> 01:26:09.279 he would feel it and say what it was. He 1234 01:26:09.359 --> 01:26:12.920 felt it, and, being in doubt, said, I do not 1235 01:26:13.079 --> 01:26:15.880 quite know whether it is the cub of a fox 1236 01:26:16.000 --> 01:26:18.520 or the whelp of a wolf, but this, I know 1237 01:26:18.720 --> 01:26:21.479 full well that it would not be safe to admit 1238 01:26:21.600 --> 01:26:28.520 him to the sheepfold. Evil tendencies are shown early in life. 1239 01:26:29.159 --> 01:26:33.640 The geese and the cranes. The geese and the cranes 1240 01:26:33.760 --> 01:26:37.039 fed in the same meadow. A bird capture came to 1241 01:26:37.239 --> 01:26:40.920 ensnare them in his nets. The cranes, being light of wing, 1242 01:26:41.479 --> 01:26:44.720 fled away at his approach, while the geese, being slower 1243 01:26:44.720 --> 01:26:49.119 of flight and heavier in their bodies, were captured. Those 1244 01:26:49.159 --> 01:26:53.520 who were caught are not always the most guilty. The 1245 01:26:53.640 --> 01:26:58.119 north wind and the Sun. The north wind and the 1246 01:26:58.119 --> 01:27:02.119 Sun disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that 1247 01:27:02.279 --> 01:27:05.560 he should be declared the victor who could first strip 1248 01:27:05.680 --> 01:27:09.600 a wayfaring man of his clothes. The north wind first 1249 01:27:09.680 --> 01:27:13.159 tried his power and blew with all his might, but 1250 01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:17.319 the keener became his blasts the closer the traveler wrapped 1251 01:27:17.359 --> 01:27:21.079 his cloak around him, till at last, resigning all hope 1252 01:27:21.079 --> 01:27:23.720 of victory, he called upon the sun to see what 1253 01:27:23.800 --> 01:27:27.479 he could do. The Sun suddenly shone out with all 1254 01:27:27.600 --> 01:27:31.840 his warmth. The traveler no sooner felt his genial rays 1255 01:27:32.399 --> 01:27:35.399 than he took off one garment after another, and at 1256 01:27:35.479 --> 01:27:39.640 last fairly overcome with heat, undressed, and bathed in a 1257 01:27:39.680 --> 01:27:45.159 stream that lay in his path. Persuasion is better than force. 1258 01:27:47.279 --> 01:27:53.159 End of Section five. The laborer and the snake. A snake, 1259 01:27:53.479 --> 01:27:56.359 having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, 1260 01:27:56.840 --> 01:28:00.159 inflicted a severe bite on the cottager's infant son, of 1261 01:28:00.199 --> 01:28:03.359 which he died, to the great grief of his parents. 1262 01:28:04.039 --> 01:28:07.520 The father resolved to kill the snake, and the next day, 1263 01:28:07.600 --> 01:28:10.439 on its coming out of its hole for food, took 1264 01:28:10.520 --> 01:28:13.359 up his axe, but making too much haste to hit 1265 01:28:13.439 --> 01:28:17.000 him as he wriggled away, missed his head and cut 1266 01:28:17.039 --> 01:28:20.279 off only the end of his tail. After some time, 1267 01:28:20.439 --> 01:28:23.359 the cottager, afraid lest the snake should bite him, also 1268 01:28:24.039 --> 01:28:27.560 endeavored to make peace, and placed some bread and salt 1269 01:28:27.600 --> 01:28:31.880 in his hole. The snake said, there can henceforth be 1270 01:28:32.119 --> 01:28:36.000 no peace between us, for whenever I see you, I 1271 01:28:36.239 --> 01:28:39.399 shall remember the loss of my tale, and whenever you 1272 01:28:39.479 --> 01:28:42.439 see me, you will be thinking of the death of 1273 01:28:42.479 --> 01:28:46.560 your son. It is hard to forget injuries in the 1274 01:28:46.600 --> 01:28:51.960 presence of him who caused the injury. The Bull and 1275 01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:56.279 the calf. A bull was striving with all his might 1276 01:28:56.319 --> 01:28:59.800 to squeeze himself through a narrow passage, which led to 1277 01:28:59.840 --> 01:29:03.600 him stall. A young calf came up and offered to 1278 01:29:03.600 --> 01:29:05.920 go before and show him the way by which he 1279 01:29:05.920 --> 01:29:10.479 could manage to pass. Save yourself the trouble, said the bull. 1280 01:29:11.079 --> 01:29:15.840 I knew that way long before you were born. Do 1281 01:29:15.960 --> 01:29:22.399 not presume to teach your elders. The goat and the ass. 1282 01:29:23.600 --> 01:29:27.319 A man once kept a goat and an ass. The goat, 1283 01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:30.159 in being the ass, on account of his greater abundance 1284 01:29:30.199 --> 01:29:34.359 of food, said how shamefully you are treated, at one 1285 01:29:34.399 --> 01:29:38.640 time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy burdens. 1286 01:29:39.159 --> 01:29:42.479 And he further advised him that he should pretend to 1287 01:29:42.520 --> 01:29:46.079 be epileptic and fall into a deep ditch, and so 1288 01:29:46.439 --> 01:29:50.840 obtain rest. The ass gave credence to his words, and, 1289 01:29:51.039 --> 01:29:55.239 falling into a ditch, was very much bruised. His master, 1290 01:29:55.399 --> 01:29:58.960 sending for a leech, asked his advice. He bade him 1291 01:29:58.960 --> 01:30:02.079 pour upon the wound the blood of a goat. They 1292 01:30:02.119 --> 01:30:05.840 at once killed the goat, and so healed the ass. 1293 01:30:07.199 --> 01:30:11.159 In injuring others, we are apt to receive a greater injury. 1294 01:30:13.479 --> 01:30:18.520 The boasting traveler, a man who had traveled in foreign lands, 1295 01:30:19.000 --> 01:30:22.359 boasted very much on returning to his own country, of 1296 01:30:22.439 --> 01:30:26.000 the many wonderful and heroic things he had done in 1297 01:30:26.079 --> 01:30:30.119 the different places he had visited. Among other things, he 1298 01:30:30.199 --> 01:30:33.239 said that when he was at Rhodes, he had leaped 1299 01:30:33.319 --> 01:30:36.239 to such a distance that no man of his day 1300 01:30:36.279 --> 01:30:40.039 could leap anywhere near him. And as to that, there 1301 01:30:40.079 --> 01:30:42.680 were in roads many persons who saw him do it, 1302 01:30:43.039 --> 01:30:47.239 and whom he could call as witnesses. One of the bystanders, 1303 01:30:47.239 --> 01:30:51.640 interrupting him, said, now, my good man, if this be 1304 01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:56.199 all true, there is no need of witnesses. Suppose this 1305 01:30:56.399 --> 01:31:00.720 to be roads, And now for your leap, cure a 1306 01:31:00.800 --> 01:31:06.239 boaster by putting his words to the test. The ass, 1307 01:31:06.399 --> 01:31:11.079 the cock, and the lion. An ass and a cock 1308 01:31:11.159 --> 01:31:15.439 were together when a lion, desperate from hunger approached. He 1309 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:18.800 was about to spring upon the ass, when the cock, 1310 01:31:19.239 --> 01:31:21.640 to the sound of whose voice the lion, it is said, 1311 01:31:21.720 --> 01:31:26.520 has a singular aversion, crowed loudly, and the lion fled away. 1312 01:31:28.000 --> 01:31:31.039 The ass, observing his trepidation at the mere crowing of 1313 01:31:31.079 --> 01:31:35.119 a cock, summoned courage to attack him, and galloped after 1314 01:31:35.239 --> 01:31:39.199 him for that purpose. He had run no long distance 1315 01:31:39.640 --> 01:31:43.319 when the lion, turning about, seized him and tore him 1316 01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:51.239 to pieces. False confidence often leads into danger. The Stag 1317 01:31:51.479 --> 01:31:57.399 and the fawn. A stag, grown old and mischievous, was, 1318 01:31:57.439 --> 01:32:01.359 according to custom, stamping with his foot, making offers with 1319 01:32:01.439 --> 01:32:05.520 his head, and bellowing so terribly that the whole herd 1320 01:32:05.680 --> 01:32:08.680 quaked for fear of him. When one of the little 1321 01:32:08.720 --> 01:32:12.880 fawns coming up, I dressed him. Thus, pray, what is 1322 01:32:12.920 --> 01:32:16.239 the reason that you, who are so formidable at all 1323 01:32:16.279 --> 01:32:19.279 other times, if you do but hear the cry of 1324 01:32:19.319 --> 01:32:22.079 the hounds, are ready to fly out of your skin 1325 01:32:22.159 --> 01:32:27.000 for fear. What you observe is true, replied the stag, 1326 01:32:27.600 --> 01:32:30.439 Though I know not how to account for it. I 1327 01:32:30.479 --> 01:32:34.880 am indeed vigorous and able, and often resolved that nothing 1328 01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:39.800 shall ever dismay my courage. But alas I no sooner 1329 01:32:39.840 --> 01:32:43.159 hear the voice of a hound, but my spirits fail me, 1330 01:32:43.680 --> 01:32:46.439 and I cannot help making off as fast as my 1331 01:32:46.600 --> 01:32:54.159 legs can carry me. The greatest braggards are the greatest cowards. 1332 01:32:54.560 --> 01:32:59.560 The partridge and the fowler. A fowler caught a partridge 1333 01:32:59.600 --> 01:33:03.239 and was to kill him. The partridge earnestly besought him 1334 01:33:03.279 --> 01:33:07.000 to spare his life, saying, pray, master, permit me to live, 1335 01:33:07.399 --> 01:33:10.960 and I will entice many partridges to you in recompense 1336 01:33:11.000 --> 01:33:16.079 for your mercy to me. The fowler replied, I shall, now, 1337 01:33:16.199 --> 01:33:19.880 with the less scruble, take your life, because you are 1338 01:33:19.960 --> 01:33:22.960 willing to save it at the cost of betraying your 1339 01:33:22.960 --> 01:33:27.479 friends and relations. And without more ado, he twisted his 1340 01:33:27.640 --> 01:33:30.039 neck and put him in his bag with his other game. 1341 01:33:31.439 --> 01:33:34.720 Those who had sacrificed their friends to save themselves from 1342 01:33:34.760 --> 01:33:42.439 horm are not entitled to mercy. The farmer and the stark. 1343 01:33:42.840 --> 01:33:46.079 A farmer placed his nets on his newly sown plow 1344 01:33:46.159 --> 01:33:49.760 lands and caught a quantity of cranes which came to 1345 01:33:49.800 --> 01:33:54.159 pick up his seed. With them, he trapped a stark also. 1346 01:33:54.399 --> 01:33:58.279 The stark, having his leg fractured by the net, earnestly, 1347 01:33:58.319 --> 01:34:02.000 besought the farmer to spare his life. Pray save me, master, 1348 01:34:02.399 --> 01:34:05.359 he said, and let me go free. This once, my 1349 01:34:05.600 --> 01:34:09.720 broken limbs should excite your pity. Besides, I am no crane. 1350 01:34:10.000 --> 01:34:13.600 I am a stark, a bird of excellent character. And 1351 01:34:13.760 --> 01:34:16.800 see how I love and slave from my father and mother. 1352 01:34:17.600 --> 01:34:20.479 Look to it, my feathers, they are not the least 1353 01:34:20.720 --> 01:34:24.479 like to those of a crane. The farmer laughed, aloud 1354 01:34:24.520 --> 01:34:28.039 and said, it may be all as you say. I 1355 01:34:28.119 --> 01:34:32.439 only know this. I have taken you with these robbers 1356 01:34:32.520 --> 01:34:37.640 the cranes, and you must die in their company. Birds 1357 01:34:37.640 --> 01:34:43.439 of a feather flock together. The ass and his driver. 1358 01:34:44.960 --> 01:34:49.079 An ass being driven along the high road, suddenly started 1359 01:34:49.079 --> 01:34:51.720 off and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice. 1360 01:34:52.439 --> 01:34:55.000 When he was in the act of throwing himself over, 1361 01:34:55.520 --> 01:34:58.720 his owner seized him by the tail endeavoring to pull 1362 01:34:58.800 --> 01:35:02.560 him back. The ass persisted in his effort. The man 1363 01:35:02.680 --> 01:35:07.199 let him go and said, conquer, but conquer to your cost. 1364 01:35:08.039 --> 01:35:15.960 The perverse generally come to harm. The hare and the hound. 1365 01:35:17.399 --> 01:35:21.000 A hound, having started a hare from his form, after 1366 01:35:21.039 --> 01:35:24.600 a long run, gave up the chase. A goatherd, seeing 1367 01:35:24.680 --> 01:35:28.920 him stop, mocked him, saying, the little one is the 1368 01:35:28.960 --> 01:35:32.960 best runner of the two. The hound replied, you do 1369 01:35:33.039 --> 01:35:36.760 not see the difference between us. I was only running 1370 01:35:36.840 --> 01:35:43.920 for a dinner, but he for his life. Incentive spurs effort. 1371 01:35:45.520 --> 01:35:49.960 The kites and the swans. The kites of old time 1372 01:35:50.039 --> 01:35:53.960 had equally with the swans the privilege of song, But 1373 01:35:54.159 --> 01:35:57.319 having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so 1374 01:35:57.560 --> 01:36:00.720 enchanted with the sound that they tried to imitate it, 1375 01:36:01.159 --> 01:36:04.880 and in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing. 1376 01:36:06.399 --> 01:36:10.760 The desire for imaginary benefits often involves the loss of 1377 01:36:10.840 --> 01:36:17.439 present blessings. The Dog in the manger. A dog lay 1378 01:36:17.520 --> 01:36:22.000 in a manger, and by his growling and snapping, prevented 1379 01:36:22.039 --> 01:36:24.439 the oxen from eating the hay which had been placed 1380 01:36:24.439 --> 01:36:27.880 for them. What a selfish dog, said one of them 1381 01:36:27.880 --> 01:36:31.399 to his companions. He cannot eat the hay himself, and 1382 01:36:31.560 --> 01:36:34.520 yet he refuses to allow those to eat who can. 1383 01:36:35.840 --> 01:36:39.199 We should not deprive others of blessings because we cannot 1384 01:36:39.279 --> 01:36:45.600 enjoy them ourselves. The Crow and the serpent. A crow, 1385 01:36:45.960 --> 01:36:49.319 in great want of food, saw a serpent asleep in 1386 01:36:49.399 --> 01:36:54.920 a sunny nook, and, flying down, greedily seized him. The serpent, 1387 01:36:55.039 --> 01:36:58.920 turning about, bit the crow with a mortal wound. The crow, 1388 01:36:59.000 --> 01:37:03.880 in the agony of exclaimed, Oh, unhappy me, who were 1389 01:37:03.960 --> 01:37:06.800 found in that which I deemed a most happy windfall, 1390 01:37:07.319 --> 01:37:11.920 the source of my certain destruction? What seemed to be 1391 01:37:12.039 --> 01:37:18.279 blessings are not always so. The Cat and the Fox. 1392 01:37:19.600 --> 01:37:22.239 As the cat and the fox were talking politics together, 1393 01:37:22.760 --> 01:37:26.840 Reynard said, let things turn out ever so bad. He 1394 01:37:26.880 --> 01:37:30.239 did not care for he had a thousand tricks for 1395 01:37:30.319 --> 01:37:33.800 them yet before they should hurt him. But pray, says 1396 01:37:33.840 --> 01:37:38.159 he Mistress Puss, suppose there should be an invasion, what 1397 01:37:38.279 --> 01:37:41.880 course do you design to take? Nay, says the cat. 1398 01:37:42.239 --> 01:37:44.640 I have but one shift for it, and if that 1399 01:37:44.720 --> 01:37:48.359 won't do, I am undone. I am sorry for you, 1400 01:37:48.680 --> 01:37:52.720 replies Reynard, with all my heart, and would gladly help you. 1401 01:37:52.880 --> 01:37:56.479 But indeed, neighbor, as times go, it is not good 1402 01:37:56.600 --> 01:37:59.880 to trust. We must even be every one for himself, 1403 01:38:00.079 --> 01:38:04.000 as the saying is. These words were scarcely out of 1404 01:38:04.039 --> 01:38:06.880 his mouth when they were alarmed with a pack of 1405 01:38:06.960 --> 01:38:11.399 hounds that came upon them in full cry. The cat, 1406 01:38:11.680 --> 01:38:14.479 by the help of her single shift, ran up a 1407 01:38:14.479 --> 01:38:18.319 tree and sat securely among the top branches. From whence 1408 01:38:18.520 --> 01:38:21.680 she beheld Reynard, who had not been able to get 1409 01:38:21.680 --> 01:38:25.880 out of sight, overtaken with his thousand tricks, and torn 1410 01:38:26.000 --> 01:38:30.119 in as many pieces by the dogs which has surrounded him. 1411 01:38:30.640 --> 01:38:33.880 A little common sense is often of more value than 1412 01:38:34.119 --> 01:38:41.520 much cunning. The Eagle and the Arrow. An eagle sat 1413 01:38:41.560 --> 01:38:44.399 on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a hare 1414 01:38:44.760 --> 01:38:47.760 whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who 1415 01:38:47.800 --> 01:38:51.159 saw him from a place of concealment, took in accurate 1416 01:38:51.199 --> 01:38:55.479 aim and wounded him mortally. The eagle took one look 1417 01:38:55.479 --> 01:38:58.479 at the arrow that had entered his heart, and saw 1418 01:38:58.680 --> 01:39:02.199 in that single glands that its feathers had been furnished 1419 01:39:02.239 --> 01:39:06.760 by himself. It is a double grief to me, he exclaimed, 1420 01:39:07.359 --> 01:39:10.119 that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my 1421 01:39:10.319 --> 01:39:16.560 own wings. The misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct 1422 01:39:16.880 --> 01:39:22.640 are the hardest to bear. The dog invited to supper. 1423 01:39:24.000 --> 01:39:27.600 A gentleman, having prepared a great feast, invited a friend 1424 01:39:27.640 --> 01:39:32.600 to supper, and the gentleman's dog, meeting the friend's dog, come, 1425 01:39:32.760 --> 01:39:35.239 said he, by good fellow, and sup with us to night. 1426 01:39:35.920 --> 01:39:39.960 The dog was delighted with the invitation, and as he 1427 01:39:40.000 --> 01:39:43.359 stood by and saw the preparations for the feast, said 1428 01:39:43.359 --> 01:39:48.439 to himself, capital fair, indeed, this is in truth good luck. 1429 01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:52.600 I shall revel in dainties, and I will take good 1430 01:39:52.680 --> 01:39:55.359 care to lay in an ample stock to night, for 1431 01:39:55.520 --> 01:39:58.680 I may have nothing to eat tomorrow. As he said 1432 01:39:58.720 --> 01:40:02.279 this to himself, he wagged his tail and gave a 1433 01:40:02.359 --> 01:40:05.640 sly look at his friend, who had incited him but 1434 01:40:06.000 --> 01:40:09.800 his tail wagging to and fro, caught the cook's eye, who, 1435 01:40:09.840 --> 01:40:14.000 seeing a stranger straightway, seized him by the legs and 1436 01:40:14.159 --> 01:40:17.479 threw him out the window to the street below. When 1437 01:40:17.479 --> 01:40:21.000 he reached the ground, he set off yelping down the street, 1438 01:40:21.439 --> 01:40:23.880 upon which the neighbor's dogs ran up to him and 1439 01:40:23.960 --> 01:40:27.680 asked him how he liked to supper in faith, said he, 1440 01:40:27.840 --> 01:40:31.560 with a sorry smile. I hardly know, for we drank 1441 01:40:31.640 --> 01:40:34.079 so deeply that I can't even tell you which way 1442 01:40:34.079 --> 01:40:37.840 I got out. Those who enter by the back stairs 1443 01:40:38.359 --> 01:40:42.840 must not complain if they are thrown out by the window. 1444 01:40:43.640 --> 01:40:48.840 The frogs asking for a king. The frogs, grieved at 1445 01:40:48.840 --> 01:40:53.439 having no established ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter, entreating for 1446 01:40:53.479 --> 01:40:58.880 a king. He, perceiving their simplicity, cast down a huge 1447 01:40:59.039 --> 01:41:02.720 log into the lake. The frogs, terrified at a splash 1448 01:41:02.800 --> 01:41:06.439 occasioned by its fall, hid themselves in the depth of 1449 01:41:06.439 --> 01:41:09.800 the pool. But no sooner did they see that the 1450 01:41:09.920 --> 01:41:14.000 huge log continued motionless, than they swam again to the 1451 01:41:14.000 --> 01:41:17.920 top of the water, dismissed their fears, and came so 1452 01:41:18.159 --> 01:41:21.000 to despise it as to climb up and to squat 1453 01:41:21.119 --> 01:41:24.520 upon it. After some time, they began to think themselves 1454 01:41:24.560 --> 01:41:27.880 ill treated in the appointment of so inert a ruler, 1455 01:41:28.479 --> 01:41:31.920 and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that 1456 01:41:31.960 --> 01:41:35.560 he would set over them another sovereign. He then gave 1457 01:41:35.600 --> 01:41:39.279 them an eel to govern them. When the frogs discovered 1458 01:41:39.279 --> 01:41:43.359 his easy good nature, they yet a third time sent 1459 01:41:43.399 --> 01:41:46.520 to Jupiter to beg that he would once more choose 1460 01:41:46.560 --> 01:41:52.000 for them another king. Jupiter, displeased at their complaints, sent 1461 01:41:52.159 --> 01:41:55.640 a heron, who preyed upon the frogs day by day 1462 01:41:56.119 --> 01:42:00.479 till there were none left to complain. When you seek 1463 01:42:00.520 --> 01:42:03.680 to change your condition, be sure that you can better it. 1464 01:42:05.760 --> 01:42:10.800 The prophet. A wizard sitting in the marketplace, told the 1465 01:42:10.840 --> 01:42:14.159 fortunes of the passers by. A person ran up in 1466 01:42:14.239 --> 01:42:17.039 great haste and announced to him that the doors of 1467 01:42:17.039 --> 01:42:19.960 his house had been broken open, and that all his 1468 01:42:20.039 --> 01:42:24.199 goods were being stolen. He sighed heavily and hastened away 1469 01:42:24.239 --> 01:42:27.079 as fast as he could run. A neighbor saw him 1470 01:42:27.119 --> 01:42:31.920 running and said, oh, you follow those You say you 1471 01:42:32.000 --> 01:42:35.399 can foretell the fortunes of others, How is it you 1472 01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:42.319 did not foresee your own? The dog and his master's dinner. 1473 01:42:44.720 --> 01:42:47.960 A dog had been taught to take his master's dinner 1474 01:42:48.039 --> 01:42:52.640 to him every day. As he smelled the good things 1475 01:42:52.680 --> 01:42:56.039 in the basket, he was sorely tempted to taste them, 1476 01:42:56.399 --> 01:43:00.000 but he resisted the temptation and continued day after day 1477 01:43:00.560 --> 01:43:05.439 to carry the basket faithfully. One day, all the dogs 1478 01:43:05.479 --> 01:43:09.760 in the neighborhood followed him with longing eyes and greedy jaws, 1479 01:43:10.399 --> 01:43:14.399 and tried to steal the dinner from the basket. At first, 1480 01:43:14.439 --> 01:43:17.560 the faithful dog tried to run away from them, but 1481 01:43:17.960 --> 01:43:21.760 they pressed him so close that at last he stopped 1482 01:43:21.800 --> 01:43:25.720 to argue with him. This was what the thieves desired, 1483 01:43:26.119 --> 01:43:29.640 and they soon ridiculed him to that extent that he said, 1484 01:43:30.399 --> 01:43:34.720 very well, I will divide with you, and he sees 1485 01:43:34.840 --> 01:43:37.720 the best piece of chicken in the basket, and left 1486 01:43:37.760 --> 01:43:42.439 the rest for the others to enjoy. He who stops 1487 01:43:42.479 --> 01:43:47.279 to parley with temptation will be very likely to yield. 1488 01:43:48.479 --> 01:43:54.800 The buffoon and the countryman, a rich nobleman, once opened 1489 01:43:54.800 --> 01:43:58.439 the theater to the public without charge, and gave notice 1490 01:43:58.479 --> 01:44:01.720 that he would handsomely reward guard anyone who would produce 1491 01:44:01.760 --> 01:44:06.039 a new amusement. A baffoon, well known for his jokes, 1492 01:44:06.079 --> 01:44:09.359 said that he had a kind of entertainment that had 1493 01:44:09.399 --> 01:44:13.600 never been produced in a theater. This report, being spread about, 1494 01:44:13.960 --> 01:44:16.880 created a great stir in the place, and the theater 1495 01:44:17.159 --> 01:44:21.359 was crowded to see the new entertainment. The buffoon appeared 1496 01:44:21.680 --> 01:44:25.680 and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so admirably 1497 01:44:25.720 --> 01:44:28.680 with his voice that the audience declared that he had 1498 01:44:28.680 --> 01:44:31.920 a porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should 1499 01:44:31.960 --> 01:44:35.079 be shaken out. When that was done, and yet nothing 1500 01:44:35.159 --> 01:44:38.880 was found, they cheered the actor with the loudest applause. 1501 01:44:40.039 --> 01:44:43.720 A countryman in the crowd proclaimed that he would do 1502 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:47.079 the same thing on the next day. On the morrow, 1503 01:44:47.319 --> 01:44:51.119 a still larger crowd assembled in the theater. Both of 1504 01:44:51.159 --> 01:44:55.880 the performers appeared on the stage. The buffoon grunted and squeaked, 1505 01:44:55.920 --> 01:44:59.239 and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and 1506 01:44:59.359 --> 01:45:04.239 cheers of the spectators. Next, the countryman commenced, and pretending 1507 01:45:04.279 --> 01:45:07.840 that he concealed a little pig beneath his clothes, which 1508 01:45:07.920 --> 01:45:11.239 in truth he did, contrived to lay hold of and 1509 01:45:11.319 --> 01:45:15.600 to pull his ear when he began to squeak. The crowd, however, 1510 01:45:16.039 --> 01:45:18.920 cried out that the buffoon had given a far more 1511 01:45:19.000 --> 01:45:23.600 exact invitation. On this, the rustic produced the pig and 1512 01:45:23.800 --> 01:45:28.279 showed them the greatness of their mistake. Critics are not 1513 01:45:28.600 --> 01:45:33.760 always to be depended upon. End of section six. The 1514 01:45:33.920 --> 01:45:39.079 boar and the ass. A little scoundrel of an ass 1515 01:45:39.319 --> 01:45:42.039 happening to meet with a boar, had a mind to 1516 01:45:42.079 --> 01:45:47.439 be arch upon him, and so says he, your humble servant. 1517 01:45:48.079 --> 01:45:51.960 The boar, somewhat nettled at his familiarity, bristled up to 1518 01:45:52.039 --> 01:45:54.720 him and told him he was surprised to hear him 1519 01:45:54.800 --> 01:45:58.279 utter so impudent an untruth, and was going to show 1520 01:45:58.319 --> 01:46:01.039 his resentment by giving him a rip in the flake, 1521 01:46:01.600 --> 01:46:06.159 But wisely stifling his passion, he contented himself with saying, 1522 01:46:06.680 --> 01:46:10.560 go you, sorry, beast. I do not care to foul 1523 01:46:10.720 --> 01:46:13.840 my tusks with the blood of so base A creature 1524 01:46:15.239 --> 01:46:21.439 dignity cannot afford to quarrel with its inferiors. The fox 1525 01:46:21.600 --> 01:46:26.279 and the goat. A fox, having fallen into a well, 1526 01:46:26.760 --> 01:46:30.920 could find no means of escape. A goat, overcome with thirst, 1527 01:46:31.199 --> 01:46:34.560 came to the well, and, seeing the fox, inquired if 1528 01:46:34.560 --> 01:46:38.560 the water was good. The fox, concealing his sad light 1529 01:46:38.800 --> 01:46:43.239 under a merry guise indulged in lavish praise of the water, 1530 01:46:43.880 --> 01:46:48.279 saying it was beyond measure excellent, and encouraged him to descend. 1531 01:46:49.000 --> 01:46:53.399 The goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, 1532 01:46:53.560 --> 01:46:57.800 When just as he quenched his thirst, the fox informed 1533 01:46:57.880 --> 01:47:01.399 him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested 1534 01:47:01.439 --> 01:47:06.319 a scheme for their common escape. If, said he, you 1535 01:47:06.439 --> 01:47:09.319 will place your fore feet upon the wall and bend 1536 01:47:09.359 --> 01:47:12.640 your head, I will run up your back and escape, 1537 01:47:12.760 --> 01:47:16.439 and will help you out on the goat. Readily assenting 1538 01:47:16.479 --> 01:47:20.239 to this proposal, the fox leaped upon his back, and, 1539 01:47:20.520 --> 01:47:24.520 steadying himself with the goat's horns, reached in safety the 1540 01:47:24.520 --> 01:47:27.840 mouth of the well, and immediately made off as fast 1541 01:47:27.920 --> 01:47:31.640 as he could. The goat upbraided him with the breach 1542 01:47:31.720 --> 01:47:34.560 of his bargain when he turned round, and cried out, 1543 01:47:35.119 --> 01:47:38.640 you foolish fellow. If you had as many brains in 1544 01:47:38.680 --> 01:47:41.600 your head as you have hairs in your beard, you 1545 01:47:41.640 --> 01:47:44.560 would never have gone down before you had inspected the 1546 01:47:44.600 --> 01:47:48.560 way up, nor have exposed yourself to danger from which 1547 01:47:48.640 --> 01:47:53.960 you had determined upon no means of escape. Look before 1548 01:47:54.000 --> 01:48:00.720 you leap, the oxen and the butchers. The oxen once 1549 01:48:00.800 --> 01:48:04.399 upon a time sought to destroy the butchers, who practiced 1550 01:48:04.439 --> 01:48:08.479 a trade destructive to their race. They assembled on a 1551 01:48:08.520 --> 01:48:12.359 certain day to carry out their purpose, and sharpened their 1552 01:48:12.439 --> 01:48:17.079 horns for the contest. One of them an exceedingly old one, 1553 01:48:17.399 --> 01:48:23.119 for many a field had he plowed. Thus spoke these butchers. 1554 01:48:23.119 --> 01:48:26.199 It is true slaughter us, But they do so with 1555 01:48:26.520 --> 01:48:31.439 skillful hands and with no unnecessary pain. If we get 1556 01:48:31.520 --> 01:48:34.359 rid of them, we shall fall into the hands of 1557 01:48:34.640 --> 01:48:39.359 unskillful operators, and thus suffer a double death. For you 1558 01:48:39.479 --> 01:48:43.119 may be assured that though all the butchers should perish, 1559 01:48:43.680 --> 01:48:48.399 yet will men ever want beef? Do not be in 1560 01:48:48.439 --> 01:48:54.159 a hurry to change one evil for another. The horse 1561 01:48:54.359 --> 01:48:59.279 and his rider a horse soldier took great pains with 1562 01:48:59.319 --> 01:49:03.359 his charger. As long as the war lasted. He looked 1563 01:49:03.439 --> 01:49:07.840 upon him as his fellow helper in all emergencies, and 1564 01:49:08.039 --> 01:49:11.439 fed him carefully with hay and corn. When the war 1565 01:49:11.600 --> 01:49:15.079 was over, he only allowed him chaff to eat, and 1566 01:49:15.199 --> 01:49:18.600 made him carry heavy loads of wood, and subjected him 1567 01:49:18.680 --> 01:49:24.079 to much slavish drudgery and ill treatment. War, however, being 1568 01:49:24.159 --> 01:49:28.760 again proclaimed, the soldier put on his charger its military 1569 01:49:28.840 --> 01:49:32.800 trappings and mounted, being clad in his heavy coat of mail. 1570 01:49:33.640 --> 01:49:38.520 The horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer 1571 01:49:38.560 --> 01:49:42.039 equal to the burden, and said to his master, you 1572 01:49:42.119 --> 01:49:45.319 must now go to the war on foot, for you 1573 01:49:45.640 --> 01:49:51.279 have transformed me from a horse into an ass. He 1574 01:49:51.359 --> 01:49:54.880 who slights his friends when they are not needed must 1575 01:49:54.960 --> 01:49:58.319 not expect them to serve him when he needs them. 1576 01:49:59.640 --> 01:50:05.640 The and the hare. A hound, having started a hare 1577 01:50:05.760 --> 01:50:09.720 on the hillside, pursued her for some distance, at one 1578 01:50:09.760 --> 01:50:13.000 time biting her with his teeth as if he would 1579 01:50:13.000 --> 01:50:17.119 take her life, and at another time fawning upon her 1580 01:50:17.359 --> 01:50:20.479 as if in play with another dog. The hare said 1581 01:50:20.520 --> 01:50:24.039 to him, I wish you would act sincerely by me 1582 01:50:24.560 --> 01:50:27.720 and show yourself in your true colors. If you are 1583 01:50:27.760 --> 01:50:30.920 a friend, why do you bite me so hard? If 1584 01:50:30.960 --> 01:50:33.680 you are an enemy, why do you fawn on me? 1585 01:50:36.119 --> 01:50:39.000 There are no friends whom you know not whether to 1586 01:50:39.039 --> 01:50:46.399 trust or to distrust. The fawn and his mother. A 1587 01:50:46.439 --> 01:50:50.159 young fawn once said to his mother, you are larger 1588 01:50:50.199 --> 01:50:55.279 than a dog, and swifter and more used to running. Why, then, 1589 01:50:55.359 --> 01:50:58.880 o mother, are you always in such a terrible fright 1590 01:50:59.000 --> 01:51:03.439 of the hounds. She smiled and said, I know full well, 1591 01:51:03.520 --> 01:51:06.479 my son, that all you say is true, I have 1592 01:51:06.640 --> 01:51:10.239 the advantages you mention, But yet when I hear the 1593 01:51:10.279 --> 01:51:14.239 bark of a single dog, I feel ready to faint. 1594 01:51:15.079 --> 01:51:21.079 No arguments will give courage to the coward. The lark 1595 01:51:21.199 --> 01:51:24.800 and her young ones. A lark had made her nest 1596 01:51:24.840 --> 01:51:28.279 in the young green wheat. The brood had almost grown 1597 01:51:28.399 --> 01:51:31.960 when the owner of the field, overlooking his crop, said 1598 01:51:32.520 --> 01:51:35.000 I must send to all my neighbors to help me 1599 01:51:35.119 --> 01:51:38.159 with my harvest. One of the young larks heard him 1600 01:51:38.199 --> 01:51:40.720 and asked his mother to what place they should move 1601 01:51:40.800 --> 01:51:44.680 for safety. There was no occasion to move yet, my son, 1602 01:51:45.119 --> 01:51:48.439 she replied. The owner of the field came a few 1603 01:51:48.520 --> 01:51:52.239 days later and said, I will come myself tomorrow and 1604 01:51:52.359 --> 01:51:55.399 will get in the harvest. Then the lark said to 1605 01:51:55.439 --> 01:51:59.079 her brood, it is time now to be off. He 1606 01:51:59.159 --> 01:52:02.600 no longer tried to his friends, but will reap the 1607 01:52:02.640 --> 01:52:09.520 field himself. Self. Help is the best help. The bowman 1608 01:52:09.760 --> 01:52:14.119 and the lion. A very skillful bowman went to the 1609 01:52:14.119 --> 01:52:17.239 mountains in search of game. All the beasts of the 1610 01:52:17.279 --> 01:52:21.560 forest fled at his approach. The lion alone challenged him 1611 01:52:21.600 --> 01:52:25.760 to combat. The bowman immediately let fly an arrow and 1612 01:52:26.039 --> 01:52:30.039 said to the lion, I send thee my messenger, that 1613 01:52:30.079 --> 01:52:33.399 from him thou mayest learn what I myself shall be 1614 01:52:33.560 --> 01:52:38.279 when I assail thee. The lion, thus wounded, rushed away 1615 01:52:38.359 --> 01:52:41.800 in great fear and on a fox, exhorting him to 1616 01:52:41.840 --> 01:52:44.039 be of good courage and not to run away at 1617 01:52:44.039 --> 01:52:48.520 the first attack, he replied, you counsel me in vain, 1618 01:52:49.239 --> 01:52:53.119 For if he sends so fearful a messenger, how shall 1619 01:52:53.119 --> 01:52:57.000 I abide the attack of a man himself. A man 1620 01:52:57.119 --> 01:53:01.239 who can strike from a distance is no pleasant neighbor. 1621 01:53:03.439 --> 01:53:08.000 The Boy and the philberts. A boy put his hand 1622 01:53:08.119 --> 01:53:12.399 into a pitcher full of filberts. He grasped as many 1623 01:53:12.439 --> 01:53:15.800 as he could possibly hold, but when he endeavored to 1624 01:53:15.800 --> 01:53:18.800 pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so 1625 01:53:19.199 --> 01:53:22.199 by the neck of the pitcher, which was much smaller 1626 01:53:22.239 --> 01:53:26.760 than his closed hand. Unwilling to lose his filberts, and 1627 01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:30.520 yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears 1628 01:53:31.000 --> 01:53:35.319 and bitterly lamented his disappointment. A bystander said to him, 1629 01:53:35.840 --> 01:53:40.039 be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily 1630 01:53:40.119 --> 01:53:45.439 draw out your hand. Do not attempt too much at once. 1631 01:53:47.720 --> 01:53:52.920 The woman and her hen A woman possessed a hen 1632 01:53:53.119 --> 01:53:57.079 that gave her an egg every day. She often thought 1633 01:53:57.079 --> 01:54:00.800 with herself how she might obtain two eggs daily instead 1634 01:54:00.800 --> 01:54:04.840 of one, and, at last, to gain her purpose, determined 1635 01:54:04.920 --> 01:54:08.560 to give the hen a double allowance of barley. From 1636 01:54:08.600 --> 01:54:12.600 that day, the hen became fat and sleek, and never 1637 01:54:12.720 --> 01:54:21.359 once laid another egg. Competeousness overreacheth itself. The lamb and 1638 01:54:21.479 --> 01:54:25.399 the Wolf. A wolf pursued a lamb which fled for 1639 01:54:25.560 --> 01:54:29.000 refuge to a certain temple. The wolf called out to 1640 01:54:29.079 --> 01:54:32.159 him and said, the priest will slay you in sacrifice 1641 01:54:32.199 --> 01:54:35.199 if he should catch you, on which the lamb replied, 1642 01:54:35.800 --> 01:54:38.359 it would be better for me to be sacrificed in 1643 01:54:38.439 --> 01:54:42.760 the temple than to be eaten by you. It is 1644 01:54:42.840 --> 01:54:48.560 safer to be among friends than enemies. The Bear and 1645 01:54:48.720 --> 01:54:54.640 the gardener. A gardener who lived alone became discontented and 1646 01:54:54.840 --> 01:54:57.199 set out one day to seek a friend who would 1647 01:54:57.239 --> 01:55:01.399 be a suitable companion. He had not gone far when 1648 01:55:01.399 --> 01:55:03.399 he met a bear, whom he invited to come and 1649 01:55:03.439 --> 01:55:07.279 live with him. The bear was a very silly one 1650 01:55:07.640 --> 01:55:11.840 who was also discontented with living alone, so he went 1651 01:55:11.920 --> 01:55:15.960 home with the gardener very willingly. The gardener provided all 1652 01:55:16.000 --> 01:55:19.000 the food and the only service he required of the 1653 01:55:19.039 --> 01:55:22.119 bear was to keep the flies off his face while 1654 01:55:22.159 --> 01:55:26.600 he slept in the shade. One day, a fly insisted 1655 01:55:26.720 --> 01:55:30.600 upon lighting on the gardener's face. Although he was brushed 1656 01:55:30.640 --> 01:55:35.560 off again and again, the silly bear finally became so 1657 01:55:35.840 --> 01:55:39.359 enraged that he threw a heavy stone upon it. He 1658 01:55:39.479 --> 01:55:43.359 killed the fly, but alas he also killed his friend. 1659 01:55:44.720 --> 01:55:49.640 Better have no friend at all than a foolish one. 1660 01:55:49.680 --> 01:55:54.520 The Heifer and the Ox. A heifer saw an ox 1661 01:55:54.640 --> 01:55:58.880 hard at work, harnessed to applow, and tormented him with 1662 01:55:58.920 --> 01:56:02.680 the reflections on his unhappy fate in being compelled to labor. 1663 01:56:03.359 --> 01:56:07.239 Shortly afterward, at the harvest home, the owner released the 1664 01:56:07.239 --> 01:56:10.439 ox from his yoke, but bound the heifer with cords 1665 01:56:10.840 --> 01:56:13.359 and led her away to the altar to be slain 1666 01:56:13.560 --> 01:56:17.199 in honor of the festival. The ox saw what was 1667 01:56:17.239 --> 01:56:20.720 being done and said to the heifer, for this you 1668 01:56:20.960 --> 01:56:24.840 were allowed to live in idleness, because you were presently 1669 01:56:25.000 --> 01:56:29.319 to be sacrificed. The lives of the idol can best 1670 01:56:29.439 --> 01:56:36.079 be spared. The Eagle and the Fox. An eagle and 1671 01:56:36.119 --> 01:56:39.520 a fox formed an intimate friendship and decided to live 1672 01:56:39.600 --> 01:56:42.359 near each other. The eagle built her nest in a 1673 01:56:42.439 --> 01:56:45.880 tall tree, while the fox crept into the underwood, and 1674 01:56:45.920 --> 01:56:49.880 there produced her young. Not long after, when the fox 1675 01:56:50.000 --> 01:56:53.439 was ranging for food, the eagle, being in want of 1676 01:56:53.479 --> 01:56:57.560 provision for her young ones, swooped down and seized one 1677 01:56:57.600 --> 01:57:02.439 of the little cubs, and feasted herself and brood. The fox, 1678 01:57:02.520 --> 01:57:06.359 on her return, discovering what had happened, was less grieved 1679 01:57:06.399 --> 01:57:09.720 for the death of her young than for her inability 1680 01:57:09.760 --> 01:57:14.640 to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon 1681 01:57:14.640 --> 01:57:18.079 the eagle. While hovering near an altar on which some 1682 01:57:18.279 --> 01:57:22.399 villagers were sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece 1683 01:57:22.399 --> 01:57:25.720 of flesh and carried with it to her nest a 1684 01:57:25.800 --> 01:57:30.560 burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into 1685 01:57:30.640 --> 01:57:35.159 a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, 1686 01:57:35.560 --> 01:57:39.239 were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at 1687 01:57:39.279 --> 01:57:43.000 the bottom of the tree. The fox gobbled them up. 1688 01:57:43.079 --> 01:57:47.239 In the sight of the eagle, the tyrant is never 1689 01:57:47.319 --> 01:57:53.680 safe from those whom he oppresses. The hawk and the nightingale. 1690 01:57:54.239 --> 01:57:57.520 A nightingale sitting aloft upon an oak, was seen by 1691 01:57:57.520 --> 01:58:00.720 a hawk, who made a swoop down and seized him. 1692 01:58:01.359 --> 01:58:04.199 The nightingale earnestly besought the hawk to let him go, 1693 01:58:04.960 --> 01:58:07.520 saying that he was not big enough to satisfy the 1694 01:58:07.600 --> 01:58:10.399 hunger of a hawk who ought to pursue the larger birds. 1695 01:58:11.039 --> 01:58:14.840 The hawk said, I should indeed have lost my senses 1696 01:58:14.920 --> 01:58:17.479 if I should let go food ready to my hand 1697 01:58:18.039 --> 01:58:20.520 for the sake of pursuing birds which are not yet 1698 01:58:20.560 --> 01:58:25.279 even within sight. A bird in the hand is worth 1699 01:58:25.359 --> 01:58:32.880 two in the bush. The hen and the swallow. A hen, 1700 01:58:33.079 --> 01:58:36.600 finding the eggs of a viper, and carefully keeping them warm, 1701 01:58:37.159 --> 01:58:41.880 nourished them into life. A swallow, observing what she had done, said, you, 1702 01:58:42.159 --> 01:58:46.239 silly creature, Why have you hatched these vipers, which, when 1703 01:58:46.279 --> 01:58:50.199 they shall have grown, will surely inflict injury on all 1704 01:58:50.239 --> 01:58:55.359 of us, beginning with yourself. If we nourish evil, it 1705 01:58:55.439 --> 01:59:01.239 will sooner or later turn upon us. The herdsman and 1706 01:59:01.399 --> 01:59:06.159 the lost bull. A herdsman tending kine in a forest 1707 01:59:06.640 --> 01:59:10.319 lost a bull calf from the fold. After a long 1708 01:59:10.399 --> 01:59:13.560 and fruitless search, he made a vow that if he 1709 01:59:13.560 --> 01:59:16.520 could only discover the thief who had stolen the calf, 1710 01:59:16.840 --> 01:59:19.399 he would offer a lamb and sacrifice to the guardian 1711 01:59:19.479 --> 01:59:23.960 deities of the forest. Not long afterwards, as he ascended 1712 01:59:24.000 --> 01:59:27.399 a small hillock, he saw at its foot a lion 1713 01:59:27.600 --> 01:59:32.000 feeding on the calf. Terrified at the sight, he lifted 1714 01:59:32.000 --> 01:59:35.520 his eyes and his hands to heaven and said, just now, 1715 01:59:35.560 --> 01:59:38.560 I vowed to offer a lamb to the guardian deities 1716 01:59:38.560 --> 01:59:41.640 of the forest if I could only find out who 1717 01:59:41.800 --> 01:59:45.039 had robbed me. But now that I have discovered the thief, 1718 01:59:45.600 --> 01:59:48.239 I would willingly add a full grown bull to the 1719 01:59:48.279 --> 01:59:51.039 calf I have lost, and give them both to the 1720 01:59:51.079 --> 01:59:54.319 guardians of the forest, if I may only secure my 1721 01:59:54.359 --> 01:59:59.680 own escape from this terrible lion in safety. That which 1722 01:59:59.680 --> 02:00:03.479 we are anxious to find, we are sometimes even more 1723 02:00:03.520 --> 02:00:07.279 anxious to escape from when we have succeeded in finding it. 1724 02:00:09.039 --> 02:00:14.399 The shepherd's Boy and Wolf. A shepherd boy who watched 1725 02:00:14.399 --> 02:00:17.079 a flock of sheep near a village brought out the 1726 02:00:17.159 --> 02:00:21.520 villagers three or four times by crying out, wolf, Wolf, 1727 02:00:22.359 --> 02:00:25.319 and when his neighbors came to help him, laughed at 1728 02:00:25.359 --> 02:00:29.800 them for their pains. The wolf, however, did truly come. 1729 02:00:29.840 --> 02:00:34.640 At last, the shepherd boy, now really alarmed, shouted, in 1730 02:00:34.720 --> 02:00:37.920 an agony of terror, pray, do come and help me. 1731 02:00:38.279 --> 02:00:41.600 The wolf is killing the sheep. But no one paid 1732 02:00:41.680 --> 02:00:46.880 any heed to his cries. There is no believing a liar, 1733 02:00:47.359 --> 02:00:52.239 even when he speaks the truth. The hawk, the kite, 1734 02:00:52.279 --> 02:00:57.039 and the pigeons. The pigeons, terrified by the appearance of 1735 02:00:57.079 --> 02:01:00.359 a kite, called upon the hawk to defend them. He 1736 02:01:00.479 --> 02:01:04.239 at once consented. When they had admitted him into the coat, 1737 02:01:04.720 --> 02:01:07.640 they found that he made more havoc and slew a 1738 02:01:07.760 --> 02:01:10.800 larger number of them in a single day than the 1739 02:01:10.880 --> 02:01:15.760 kite could possibly pounce upon in a whole year of 1740 02:01:15.880 --> 02:01:21.600 wide a remedy that is worse than the disease. The 1741 02:01:21.840 --> 02:01:27.079 farmer and the cranes. Some cranes made their feeding grounds 1742 02:01:27.119 --> 02:01:30.479 on some plow lands newly sown with wheat. For a 1743 02:01:30.520 --> 02:01:34.760 long time. The farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them 1744 02:01:34.760 --> 02:01:38.119 away by the terror he inspired. But when the birds 1745 02:01:38.159 --> 02:01:40.720 found that the sling was only swung in the air, 1746 02:01:41.319 --> 02:01:44.039 they ceased to take any notice of it and would 1747 02:01:44.079 --> 02:01:48.600 not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling 1748 02:01:48.680 --> 02:01:51.960 with stones and killed a great number. They at once 1749 02:01:52.079 --> 02:01:55.600 forsook his plow lands and cried to each other, it 1750 02:01:55.680 --> 02:01:58.239 is time for us to be off, for this man 1751 02:01:58.399 --> 02:02:01.680 is no longer content to scare, but begins to show 1752 02:02:01.760 --> 02:02:06.239 us in earnest what he can do. If words suffice 1753 02:02:06.319 --> 02:02:14.840 not blows. Must follow the cat and the mice. A 1754 02:02:14.920 --> 02:02:19.640 certain house was overrun with mice. A cat, discovering this, 1755 02:02:20.319 --> 02:02:22.319 made her way into it and began to catch and 1756 02:02:22.399 --> 02:02:26.600 eat them one by one. The mice, being continually devoured, 1757 02:02:27.159 --> 02:02:31.760 kept themselves close in their holes. The cat, no longer 1758 02:02:31.800 --> 02:02:35.439 able to get at them, perceived that she must tempt 1759 02:02:35.479 --> 02:02:39.319 them forth by some device. For this purpose, she jumped 1760 02:02:39.399 --> 02:02:43.760 upon a peg, and, suspending herself from it, pretended to 1761 02:02:43.800 --> 02:02:48.439 be dead. When the mice came near, she pounced upon 1762 02:02:48.479 --> 02:02:51.880 them and killed a great number. Pleased with the success 1763 02:02:51.920 --> 02:02:55.960 of this trick, she tried another. She whitened herself with 1764 02:02:56.119 --> 02:02:59.720 flour and lay still on the heap of bags, as 1765 02:02:59.760 --> 02:03:03.279 though she was one of them. The young mice crept 1766 02:03:03.399 --> 02:03:09.479 dangerously near her, but an old one, peering stealthily out, said, ah, 1767 02:03:09.520 --> 02:03:12.640 my good madam, though you should turn into a real 1768 02:03:12.720 --> 02:03:18.359 flower bag, I will not come too near you avoid 1769 02:03:18.520 --> 02:03:24.560 even appearance of danger. End of Section seven. The Father 1770 02:03:24.880 --> 02:03:29.000 and his sons. A father had a family of sons 1771 02:03:29.079 --> 02:03:33.640 who were perpetually quarreling among themselves. When he failed to 1772 02:03:33.680 --> 02:03:37.520 heal their disputes by his exhortations, he one day told 1773 02:03:37.600 --> 02:03:40.159 them to bring him a bundle of sticks. When they 1774 02:03:40.199 --> 02:03:43.199 had done so, he placed the bundle into the hands 1775 02:03:43.239 --> 02:03:46.199 of each one of them in succession, and ordered them 1776 02:03:46.279 --> 02:03:49.319 to break it in pieces. They each tried with all 1777 02:03:49.359 --> 02:03:52.239 their strength, and were not able to do it. He 1778 02:03:52.359 --> 02:03:56.600 next unclosed the faggot and took the sticks separately, one 1779 02:03:56.640 --> 02:04:00.119 by one, and again put them into their hands, on 1780 02:04:00.159 --> 02:04:03.159 which they broke them easily. He then addressed them in 1781 02:04:03.199 --> 02:04:07.039 these words, my sons, if you are of one mind 1782 02:04:07.079 --> 02:04:10.199 and unite to assist each other, you will be as 1783 02:04:10.279 --> 02:04:14.199 this faggot, uninjured by all attempts of your enemies. But 1784 02:04:14.279 --> 02:04:17.840 if you are divided among yourselves, you will be broken 1785 02:04:17.920 --> 02:04:23.760 as easily as these sticks. Disunited families are easily injured 1786 02:04:23.800 --> 02:04:30.920 by others. The owl and the grasshopper. An owl who 1787 02:04:31.000 --> 02:04:34.640 was sitting in a hollow tree dozing away a summer's afternoon, 1788 02:04:35.239 --> 02:04:38.359 was very much disturbed by a rogue of a grasshopper 1789 02:04:38.800 --> 02:04:42.760 singing in the grass beneath. So far from keeping quiet 1790 02:04:43.119 --> 02:04:45.840 or moving away at the request of the owl, the 1791 02:04:45.840 --> 02:04:49.199 grasshopper sang all the more and called her, an old 1792 02:04:49.319 --> 02:04:52.640 blinker that only came out at night when all honest 1793 02:04:52.680 --> 02:04:56.159 people had gone to bed. The owl waited in silence 1794 02:04:56.199 --> 02:04:59.840 for a time, and then artfully addressed the grasshopper as 1795 02:04:59.840 --> 02:05:04.600 f well, my dear, if one cannot be allowed to sleep, 1796 02:05:05.000 --> 02:05:07.319 it is something to be kept awake by such a 1797 02:05:07.359 --> 02:05:10.560 pleasant voice. And now I think of it, I have 1798 02:05:10.680 --> 02:05:14.359 a bottle of delicious nectar. If you will come up, 1799 02:05:14.560 --> 02:05:18.319 you shall have a drop. The silly grasshopper came hopping 1800 02:05:18.359 --> 02:05:21.720 up to the owl, who at once caught and killed him, 1801 02:05:22.000 --> 02:05:26.720 and finished her nap in comfort. Flattery is not a 1802 02:05:26.840 --> 02:05:34.199 proof of admiration. The Fox and the grapes. A famished 1803 02:05:34.239 --> 02:05:38.239 fox saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from 1804 02:05:38.239 --> 02:05:41.760 a trellised vine. She resorted to all her tricks to 1805 02:05:41.760 --> 02:05:45.000 get at them, but wearied herself in vain for she 1806 02:05:45.039 --> 02:05:49.720 could not reach them. At last, she turned away, beguiling 1807 02:05:49.760 --> 02:05:53.359 herself of her disappointment, and saying, the grapes are sour 1808 02:05:53.479 --> 02:05:58.399 and not ripe, as I thought. Revile not things beyond 1809 02:05:58.600 --> 02:06:06.279 your reach. The ass carrying the image. An ass once 1810 02:06:06.359 --> 02:06:09.000 carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden 1811 02:06:09.039 --> 02:06:12.640 image to be placed in one of its temples. The crowd, 1812 02:06:12.720 --> 02:06:17.000 as he passed along, made lowly prostration before the image. 1813 02:06:17.439 --> 02:06:20.840 The ass, thinking that they bowed their heads in token 1814 02:06:20.880 --> 02:06:24.479 of respect for him, bristled up with pride and gave 1815 02:06:24.600 --> 02:06:29.239 himself airs and refused to move another step. The driver, 1816 02:06:29.640 --> 02:06:33.640 seeing him thus stop, laid his whip lustily about his 1817 02:06:33.720 --> 02:06:37.960 shoulders and said, oh, you perverse, dull head. It has 1818 02:06:38.079 --> 02:06:40.760 not yet come to this that men pay worship to 1819 02:06:40.840 --> 02:06:45.680 an ass. They are not wise who take to themselves 1820 02:06:45.720 --> 02:06:51.079 the credit due to others. The ass and the lap dog. 1821 02:06:52.760 --> 02:06:56.319 A man had an ass and a Maltese lap dog, 1822 02:06:56.760 --> 02:07:00.159 a very great beauty. The ass was left in his 1823 02:07:00.199 --> 02:07:02.800 stable and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, 1824 02:07:03.359 --> 02:07:06.359 just as any other ass would. The lap dog was 1825 02:07:06.439 --> 02:07:09.319 a great favorite with his master, and he frisked and 1826 02:07:09.439 --> 02:07:12.359 jumped about him in a manner pleasant to see. The 1827 02:07:12.479 --> 02:07:15.279 ass had much work to do, in grinding the corn mill, 1828 02:07:15.439 --> 02:07:18.760 and in carrying wood from the forest or burdens from 1829 02:07:18.760 --> 02:07:22.800 the farm. He often lamented his own hard fate and 1830 02:07:22.960 --> 02:07:26.920 contrasted it with the luxury and idleness of the lap dog. 1831 02:07:27.479 --> 02:07:31.119 So at last one day he broke his halter and 1832 02:07:31.319 --> 02:07:35.560 galloped into his master's house, kicking up his heels without measure, 1833 02:07:36.000 --> 02:07:39.720 and frisking and fawning as well as he could. He 1834 02:07:39.840 --> 02:07:42.319 next tried to jump about his master, as he had 1835 02:07:42.359 --> 02:07:45.079 seen the lap dog do, but he broke the table 1836 02:07:45.279 --> 02:07:48.680 and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms. He 1837 02:07:48.720 --> 02:07:51.920 then attempted to lick his master and jumped upon his back. 1838 02:07:52.560 --> 02:07:56.520 The servants, hearing the strange hubbub and perceiving the danger 1839 02:07:56.560 --> 02:07:59.840 of their master, quickly relieved him and drove out. The 1840 02:08:00.079 --> 02:08:03.119 asked to his stable with kicks and clubs and cuffs. 1841 02:08:03.760 --> 02:08:08.880 The ass beaten nearly to death, thus lamented, I have 1842 02:08:09.000 --> 02:08:12.439 brought it all on myself. Why could I not have 1843 02:08:12.479 --> 02:08:16.279 been contented to labor with my companions and not try 1844 02:08:16.319 --> 02:08:23.000 to live by idleness? The Tortoise and the Eagle. A 1845 02:08:23.119 --> 02:08:27.560 tortoise lazily basking in the sun complained to the sea 1846 02:08:27.560 --> 02:08:30.479 birds of her hard fate that no one would teach 1847 02:08:30.479 --> 02:08:34.840 her to fly. An eagle hovering near heard her lamentation 1848 02:08:35.279 --> 02:08:38.279 and demanded what reward she would give him if he 1849 02:08:38.319 --> 02:08:41.239 would take her aloft and float her in the air. 1850 02:08:42.159 --> 02:08:45.880 I will give you, she said, all the riches of 1851 02:08:45.920 --> 02:08:48.920 the red sea. I will teach you to fly, then 1852 02:08:49.039 --> 02:08:52.079 said the eagle, and taken her up in his talons. 1853 02:08:52.600 --> 02:08:57.039 He carried her almost to the clouds, when suddenly letting 1854 02:08:57.039 --> 02:09:00.920 her go, she fell on a lofty mountain and dashed 1855 02:09:00.960 --> 02:09:05.000 her shell to pieces. The tartis exclaimed in the moment 1856 02:09:05.039 --> 02:09:08.640 of death. I have deserved my present fate, for what 1857 02:09:08.840 --> 02:09:12.520 had I to do with wings and clouds? Who can 1858 02:09:12.600 --> 02:09:16.800 with difficulty move about on the earth? If men had 1859 02:09:16.840 --> 02:09:23.399 all they wished, they would be often ruined. The porcupine 1860 02:09:23.680 --> 02:09:29.239 and the snakes. A porcupine, wanting to shelter himself, desired 1861 02:09:29.279 --> 02:09:32.159 a nest of snakes to give him admittance into their cave. 1862 02:09:33.000 --> 02:09:36.159 They were prevailed upon and let him in accordingly, but 1863 02:09:36.399 --> 02:09:40.479 were so annoyed with his sharp, prickly quills that they 1864 02:09:40.600 --> 02:09:45.319 soon repented of their easy compliance, and entreated the porcupine 1865 02:09:45.359 --> 02:09:49.119 to withdraw and leave them their whole to themselves. No, 1866 02:09:49.840 --> 02:09:53.399 says he let them quit the place that don't like it. 1867 02:09:53.840 --> 02:09:57.560 For my part, I am well enough satisfied as I am. 1868 02:09:58.479 --> 02:10:03.800 Hospitality is a very, but should be wisely exercised. We may, 1869 02:10:03.920 --> 02:10:09.720 by thoughtlessness entertain foes instead of friends. The fox, who 1870 02:10:09.760 --> 02:10:14.680 had lost his tail. A fox caught in a trap 1871 02:10:15.279 --> 02:10:19.560 escaped with the loss of his brush. Henceforth, feeling his 1872 02:10:19.680 --> 02:10:22.600 life a burden from the shame and reticule to which 1873 02:10:22.600 --> 02:10:26.239 he was exposed, he schemed to bring all the other 1874 02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:30.840 foxes into a like condition with himself. He publicly advised 1875 02:10:30.880 --> 02:10:34.560 them to cut off their tails, saying that they would 1876 02:10:34.600 --> 02:10:37.920 not only look much better without them, but that they 1877 02:10:37.960 --> 02:10:40.560 would be rid of the weight of the brush. One 1878 02:10:40.600 --> 02:10:43.920 of them said, if you had not yourself lost your tail, 1879 02:10:44.000 --> 02:10:49.119 my friend, you would not thus counsel us. Advice prompted 1880 02:10:49.159 --> 02:10:56.359 by selfishness should not be heeded. The Old Lion, a 1881 02:10:56.479 --> 02:10:59.000 lion worn out with years, lay on the ground at 1882 02:10:59.000 --> 02:11:02.399 the point of death. A boar rushed upon him and 1883 02:11:02.520 --> 02:11:07.319 avenged with a stroke of his tusks, a long remembered injury. 1884 02:11:08.159 --> 02:11:11.680 Shortly afterwards, the bull, with his horns, gored him as 1885 02:11:11.720 --> 02:11:14.279 if he were an enemy. When the ass saw that 1886 02:11:14.399 --> 02:11:18.359 the huge beast could be assailed with impunity, he let 1887 02:11:18.479 --> 02:11:24.359 drive at his forehead with his heels. The ass and 1888 02:11:24.439 --> 02:11:29.399 the wolf. An ass feeding in a meadow saw a 1889 02:11:29.399 --> 02:11:32.920 wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame. 1890 02:11:33.640 --> 02:11:36.760 The wolf coming up, inquired the cause of his lameness. 1891 02:11:37.279 --> 02:11:39.560 The ass said that he had a thorn in his 1892 02:11:39.640 --> 02:11:44.119 foot and requested the wolf to pull it out. The wolf, consenting, 1893 02:11:44.640 --> 02:11:48.439 the ass with his heels, kicked his teeth into his 1894 02:11:48.680 --> 02:11:53.520 mouth and galloped away. The wolf said, I am rightly served. 1895 02:11:54.000 --> 02:11:56.600 For why did I attempt the order healing when my 1896 02:11:56.720 --> 02:12:00.319 father only taught me the trade of a butcher. Every 1897 02:12:00.359 --> 02:12:07.520 one to his trade. The horse and the groom. A 1898 02:12:07.560 --> 02:12:11.680 groom used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing 1899 02:12:11.720 --> 02:12:15.319 down his horse, but at the same time stole his 1900 02:12:15.399 --> 02:12:19.439 oats and sold them for his own profit. Alas said 1901 02:12:19.439 --> 02:12:22.039 the horse, if you really wish me to be in 1902 02:12:22.119 --> 02:12:26.239 good condition, you should groom me less and feed me more. 1903 02:12:27.640 --> 02:12:30.600 If you wish to do a service, do it right. 1904 02:12:32.960 --> 02:12:37.760 The ass and his shadow. A traveler hired an asked 1905 02:12:37.760 --> 02:12:41.000 to convey him to a distant place. The day being 1906 02:12:41.079 --> 02:12:44.720 intensely hot and the sun shining in its strength, the 1907 02:12:44.760 --> 02:12:47.479 traveler stopped to rest and sought shelter from the heat 1908 02:12:47.680 --> 02:12:51.199 under the shadow of the ass. As this afforded only 1909 02:12:51.279 --> 02:12:54.600 protection for one, and as the traveler and the owner 1910 02:12:54.640 --> 02:12:58.239 of the ass both claimed it a violent dispute arose 1911 02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:00.880 between them as to which of them had the right 1912 02:13:01.000 --> 02:13:04.520 to it. The owner maintained that he had let the 1913 02:13:04.600 --> 02:13:08.800 ass only, and not his shadow. The traveler asserted that 1914 02:13:08.880 --> 02:13:12.119 he had, with the hire of the ass, hired his 1915 02:13:12.199 --> 02:13:17.479 shadow also. The quarrel proceeded from words to blows, and 1916 02:13:17.640 --> 02:13:22.920 while the men thought the ass galloped off. By quarreling 1917 02:13:22.960 --> 02:13:28.720 about the shadow, we often lose the substance. The horse 1918 02:13:28.800 --> 02:13:33.279 and the loaded ass. An idle horse and an ass 1919 02:13:33.359 --> 02:13:36.760 laboring under a heavy burden were traveling the road together. 1920 02:13:37.319 --> 02:13:40.840 The ass, ready to faint under his heavy load, entreated 1921 02:13:40.840 --> 02:13:44.159 the horse to assist him and lighten his burden by 1922 02:13:44.199 --> 02:13:47.199 taking some of it upon his back. The horse was 1923 02:13:47.239 --> 02:13:50.279 ill natured and refused to do it, upon which the 1924 02:13:50.319 --> 02:13:53.399 poor ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway 1925 02:13:53.479 --> 02:13:58.159 and expired. The countryman then took the whole burden and 1926 02:13:58.359 --> 02:14:01.760 laid it upon the horse, together with the skin of 1927 02:14:01.800 --> 02:14:06.760 the dead ass. Laziness often prepares a burden for its 1928 02:14:06.760 --> 02:14:14.119 own back. The mules and the robbers. Two mules laden 1929 02:14:14.159 --> 02:14:18.840 with packs were trudging along. One carried panniers filled with money, 1930 02:14:19.279 --> 02:14:22.840 the other sacks of grain. The mule carrying the treasure, 1931 02:14:23.159 --> 02:14:26.279 walked with head erect and tossed up and down the 1932 02:14:26.319 --> 02:14:30.880 bells fastened to his deck. His companion followed with quiet 1933 02:14:30.880 --> 02:14:34.880 and easy step. All of a sudden, robbers rushed from 1934 02:14:34.920 --> 02:14:37.960 their hiding places upon them, and, in the scuffle with 1935 02:14:38.000 --> 02:14:41.399 their owners, wounded the mule carrying the treasure, which they 1936 02:14:41.479 --> 02:14:45.199 greedily seized upon. While they took no notice of the grain. 1937 02:14:45.960 --> 02:14:49.800 The mule, which had been wounded, bewailed his misfortunes. The 1938 02:14:49.840 --> 02:14:53.439 other replied, I am glad that I was thought so 1939 02:14:53.800 --> 02:14:57.199 little of, for I have lost nothing, nor am I 1940 02:14:57.319 --> 02:15:04.239 hurt with any wound. Conspicuous run the greatest risk. The 1941 02:15:04.319 --> 02:15:08.680 lion and the three bulls. Three bulls, for a long 1942 02:15:08.760 --> 02:15:13.119 time pastured together. A lion lay an ambush in the 1943 02:15:13.159 --> 02:15:16.079 hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to 1944 02:15:16.119 --> 02:15:19.760 attack them while they kept together. Having at last, by 1945 02:15:19.840 --> 02:15:24.319 guile full speeches, succeeded in separating them, he attacked them 1946 02:15:24.359 --> 02:15:28.279 without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them 1947 02:15:28.359 --> 02:15:33.840 one by one at his own leisure. In union is strength. 1948 02:15:35.960 --> 02:15:40.760 The dog and the shadow. A dog crossing a bridge 1949 02:15:40.800 --> 02:15:43.600 over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, 1950 02:15:44.159 --> 02:15:46.960 saw his own shadow in the water, and took it 1951 02:15:47.279 --> 02:15:50.319 for another dog with a piece of meat double his 1952 02:15:50.399 --> 02:15:53.840 own in size. He therefore let go his own and 1953 02:15:54.039 --> 02:15:57.239 fiercely attacked the other dog to get his larger piece 1954 02:15:57.279 --> 02:16:02.239 from him. He thus lost both that which he grasped 1955 02:16:02.279 --> 02:16:05.199 at in the water because it was a shadow, and 1956 02:16:05.319 --> 02:16:09.600 his own because the stream swept it away. It is 1957 02:16:09.680 --> 02:16:15.359 not wise to be too greedy. The ants and the grasshopper. 1958 02:16:16.720 --> 02:16:20.039 The ants were employing a fine winter's day in drying 1959 02:16:20.119 --> 02:16:25.439 grain collected in the summertime. A grasshopper, perishing with famine, 1960 02:16:25.600 --> 02:16:28.880 passed by and earnestly begged for a little food. The 1961 02:16:28.920 --> 02:16:32.120 ants inquired of him, why did you not treasure up 1962 02:16:32.159 --> 02:16:36.440 food during the summer, He replied, I had not leisure. 1963 02:16:37.000 --> 02:16:40.879 I passed the days in singing. Then they said, if 1964 02:16:40.920 --> 02:16:43.680 you were foolish enough to sing all the summer, you 1965 02:16:43.760 --> 02:16:50.719 must dance supperless to bed in the winter. Idleness brings want. 1966 02:16:51.239 --> 02:16:56.879 The thirsty pigeon. A pigeon oppressed by excessive thirst, saw 1967 02:16:56.879 --> 02:17:00.760 a goblet of water painted on a signboard. Not supposing 1968 02:17:00.799 --> 02:17:03.559 it to be only a picture, she flew toward it 1969 02:17:03.600 --> 02:17:08.399 with a loud whir and unwillingly dashed against the signboard 1970 02:17:08.719 --> 02:17:13.040 and jarred herself terribly. Having broken her wings by the blow, 1971 02:17:13.639 --> 02:17:15.719 she fell to the ground and was caught by one 1972 02:17:15.719 --> 02:17:24.040 of the bystanders. Zeal should not outrun discretion. The flies 1973 02:17:24.239 --> 02:17:28.200 and the honey. A jar of honey having been upset 1974 02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:31.920 in a housekeeper's room. A number of flies were attracted 1975 02:17:31.959 --> 02:17:35.879 by its sweetness, and placing their feet in it ate greedily. 1976 02:17:36.520 --> 02:17:39.680 Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that 1977 02:17:39.719 --> 02:17:42.799 they could not use their wings nor release themselves, and 1978 02:17:43.040 --> 02:17:48.879 were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, oh, 1979 02:17:49.120 --> 02:17:52.159 foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a 1980 02:17:52.239 --> 02:17:58.159 little pleasure, we have destroyed ourselves. The great and the 1981 02:17:58.200 --> 02:18:02.319 little fishes. A fisherman was drawing up a net which 1982 02:18:02.319 --> 02:18:05.440 he had cast into the sea full of all sorts 1983 02:18:05.479 --> 02:18:09.120 of fish. The little fish escaped through the meshes of 1984 02:18:09.120 --> 02:18:12.120 the net and got back into the deep, but the 1985 02:18:12.159 --> 02:18:15.440 great fish were all caught and hauled into the ship. 1986 02:18:16.639 --> 02:18:22.239 Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety. Into 1987 02:18:22.280 --> 02:18:28.000 Section eight. The Wolves and the sheep. Why should there 1988 02:18:28.040 --> 02:18:32.479 always be this implacable warfare between us? Said the wolves 1989 02:18:32.479 --> 02:18:36.040 to the sheep. Those evil disposed dogs have much to 1990 02:18:36.159 --> 02:18:40.200 answer for they always bark whenever we approach, and attack 1991 02:18:40.319 --> 02:18:43.879 us before we have done any harm. If you would 1992 02:18:43.959 --> 02:18:47.600 only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be 1993 02:18:47.719 --> 02:18:52.239 treaties of peace between us. The sheep, poor silly creatures, 1994 02:18:52.639 --> 02:18:57.600 were easily beguiled and dismissed the dogs. The wolves destroyed 1995 02:18:57.639 --> 02:19:03.840 the unguarded flock at their pleasure, change not friends for foes. 1996 02:19:05.879 --> 02:19:11.239 The fox and the stark. The fox invited the stalk 1997 02:19:11.280 --> 02:19:15.120 to dinner and provided nothing but a soup in a wide, 1998 02:19:15.239 --> 02:19:19.440 shallow dish. This he could lap up with ease. But 1999 02:19:19.520 --> 02:19:22.280 the stark, who could but dip in the point of 2000 02:19:22.319 --> 02:19:26.040 his bill, was not a bit better. A few days after, 2001 02:19:26.079 --> 02:19:30.520 he returned the compliment and invited the fox, but suffered 2002 02:19:30.559 --> 02:19:32.959 nothing to be brought to the table but some minced 2003 02:19:33.000 --> 02:19:36.239 meat in a glass jar, the neck of which was 2004 02:19:36.360 --> 02:19:39.440 so deep and so narrow, that though the stalk with 2005 02:19:39.479 --> 02:19:42.399 his long bill, could eat very well, all that the 2006 02:19:42.440 --> 02:19:46.319 fox could do was to lick the brims. Reynard was 2007 02:19:46.479 --> 02:19:50.639 heartily vexed, but owned that he had been used as 2008 02:19:50.680 --> 02:19:55.639 he deserved. Those who practiced cunning must expect to suffer 2009 02:19:55.680 --> 02:20:01.319 by it. The bat and the weasels. A bat, falling 2010 02:20:01.399 --> 02:20:04.639 upon the ground, was caught by a weasel, of whom 2011 02:20:04.719 --> 02:20:08.840 he earnestly besought his life. The weasel refused, saying that 2012 02:20:08.879 --> 02:20:12.159 he was by nature the enemy of all birds. The 2013 02:20:12.200 --> 02:20:14.760 bat assured him that he was not a bird but 2014 02:20:14.840 --> 02:20:19.680 a mouse, and thus saved his life. Shortly afterward, the 2015 02:20:19.719 --> 02:20:22.120 bat again fell on the ground and was caught by 2016 02:20:22.200 --> 02:20:26.399 another weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him. 2017 02:20:27.360 --> 02:20:31.000 The weasel said that he had a special hostility to mice. 2018 02:20:31.639 --> 02:20:33.559 The bat assured him that he was not a mouse, 2019 02:20:33.600 --> 02:20:39.520 but a bat, and thus a second time escaped. The 2020 02:20:39.680 --> 02:20:45.040 hare and the tortoise. A hare one day ridiculed the 2021 02:20:45.120 --> 02:20:49.840 sharp feet in slow pace of the tortoise. The latter, laughing, said, 2022 02:20:50.440 --> 02:20:54.120 though you be swift as the wind, I will beat 2023 02:20:54.239 --> 02:20:58.079 you in a race. The hare, deeming her assertion to 2024 02:20:58.120 --> 02:21:03.280 be simply impossible, assented to the proposal, and they agreed 2025 02:21:03.760 --> 02:21:07.079 that the fox should choose the course and fix the goal. 2026 02:21:07.959 --> 02:21:10.680 On the day appointed for the race, they started together. 2027 02:21:11.639 --> 02:21:15.440 The tartis never for a moment stopped, but went on 2028 02:21:15.680 --> 02:21:19.399 with a slow but steady pace straight to the end 2029 02:21:19.479 --> 02:21:23.280 of the course. The hare, trusting to his native swiftness, 2030 02:21:23.719 --> 02:21:27.000 cared little about the race, and, lying down by the wayside, 2031 02:21:27.360 --> 02:21:31.520 fell fast asleep. At last, waking up and moving as 2032 02:21:31.559 --> 02:21:35.000 fast as he could, he saw the tartise had reached 2033 02:21:35.040 --> 02:21:41.239 the goal and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Perseverance 2034 02:21:41.600 --> 02:21:49.520 is surer than swiftness. Jupiter and the Monkey. Jupiter issued 2035 02:21:49.520 --> 02:21:52.799 a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and 2036 02:21:52.920 --> 02:21:56.360 promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should 2037 02:21:56.399 --> 02:22:00.520 be deemed the handsomest. The monkey came with the rest 2038 02:22:00.600 --> 02:22:05.639 and presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat nosed, hairless, 2039 02:22:05.760 --> 02:22:10.040 ill featured young monkey as a candidate for the promised reward. 2040 02:22:10.840 --> 02:22:14.200 A general laugh saluted her on the presentation of her son. 2041 02:22:14.920 --> 02:22:18.959 She resolutely said, I know not whether Jupiter will allot 2042 02:22:18.959 --> 02:22:21.799 the prize to my son, but this I do know 2043 02:22:22.639 --> 02:22:27.120 that he is the dearest, handsomest, and most beautiful of 2044 02:22:27.280 --> 02:22:31.879 all who are here. A mother's love blinds her to 2045 02:22:32.079 --> 02:22:40.079 many imperfections. The lion in love A lion demanded the 2046 02:22:40.159 --> 02:22:44.600 daughter of a wigcutter in marriage. The father unwilling to grant, 2047 02:22:44.600 --> 02:22:49.360 and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit. Upon this expedient, 2048 02:22:50.120 --> 02:22:53.159 he expressed his willingness to accept him as a suitor 2049 02:22:53.200 --> 02:22:56.399 of his daughter, on one condition that he should allow 2050 02:22:56.479 --> 02:22:59.440 him to extract his teeth and cut off his claws. 2051 02:23:00.200 --> 02:23:03.920 The lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. When, however, he 2052 02:23:04.000 --> 02:23:07.360 next repeated his request, the woodman set upon him with 2053 02:23:07.440 --> 02:23:13.920 his club. The Miser. A miser had a lump of 2054 02:23:13.959 --> 02:23:17.479 gold which he buried in the ground, coming to look 2055 02:23:17.520 --> 02:23:21.159 at the spot every day. One day he found that 2056 02:23:21.239 --> 02:23:24.159 it was stolen, and he began to tear his hair 2057 02:23:24.319 --> 02:23:29.200 and loudly lament. A neighbor, seeing him, said, pray, do 2058 02:23:29.280 --> 02:23:33.040 not grieve, so bury a stone in the hole, and 2059 02:23:33.239 --> 02:23:36.959 fancy it is the gold. It will serve you just 2060 02:23:37.000 --> 02:23:39.680 as well, for when the gold was there, you made 2061 02:23:39.719 --> 02:23:44.440 no use of it. A wolf saw a goat feeding 2062 02:23:44.479 --> 02:23:47.680 at the summit of a steep precipice, where he had 2063 02:23:47.680 --> 02:23:51.000 not a chance of reaching her. He called to her 2064 02:23:51.079 --> 02:23:54.600 and earnestly besought her to come lower down, lest she should, 2065 02:23:54.680 --> 02:23:58.120 by some mishap get a fall. And he added that 2066 02:23:58.159 --> 02:24:01.040 the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the 2067 02:24:01.120 --> 02:24:06.680 herbage was most tender. She replied, no, my friend, it 2068 02:24:06.799 --> 02:24:12.280 is not of me your thinking, but of yourself. Invitations 2069 02:24:12.319 --> 02:24:18.760 prompted by selfishness are not to be accepted. A bald knight. 2070 02:24:20.159 --> 02:24:23.600 A bald knight who wore a wig went out to hunt. 2071 02:24:24.239 --> 02:24:27.200 A sudden puff of wind blew off his hat and wig, 2072 02:24:27.760 --> 02:24:31.000 at which a loud laugh rang forth from his companions. 2073 02:24:31.680 --> 02:24:35.159 He joined in the joke by saying, what marvel that 2074 02:24:35.319 --> 02:24:38.680 hairs which are not mine should fly from me when 2075 02:24:38.680 --> 02:24:41.399 my own have forsaken even the man with whom they 2076 02:24:41.440 --> 02:24:45.520 were born. Those who cannot take care of their own 2077 02:24:46.040 --> 02:24:49.440 should not be entrusted with the care of another's property. 2078 02:24:51.559 --> 02:24:56.559 The Fox and the woodcutter. A fox running before the 2079 02:24:56.639 --> 02:25:01.040 hounds came across a woodcutter felling an oak, and besought 2080 02:25:01.120 --> 02:25:04.479 him to show him a safe hiding place. The woodcutter 2081 02:25:04.559 --> 02:25:07.760 advised him to take shelter in his own hut. The 2082 02:25:07.799 --> 02:25:11.600 fox crept in and hid himself in a corner. The 2083 02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:14.479 huntsman came up with his hounds in a few minutes 2084 02:25:15.040 --> 02:25:17.840 and inquired of the woodcutter if he had seen the fox. 2085 02:25:18.639 --> 02:25:21.200 He declared that he had not seen him, and yet 2086 02:25:21.239 --> 02:25:24.639 pointed all the time he was speaking to the hut 2087 02:25:24.760 --> 02:25:28.440 where the fox lay hid. The huntsman took no notice 2088 02:25:28.440 --> 02:25:32.479 of the signs, but believing his word, hastened forward in 2089 02:25:32.559 --> 02:25:35.959 the chase. As soon as they were well away, the 2090 02:25:36.000 --> 02:25:40.159 fox departed without taking any notice of the woodcutter, whereon 2091 02:25:40.159 --> 02:25:44.239 he called to him and reproached him, saying, you, ungrateful fellow. 2092 02:25:44.440 --> 02:25:46.879 You owe your life to me, and yet you leave 2093 02:25:47.000 --> 02:25:51.399 me without a word of thanks. The fox replied, indeed, 2094 02:25:51.520 --> 02:25:55.000 I should have thanked you most fervently if your deeds 2095 02:25:55.280 --> 02:26:00.239 had been as good as your words. The Kid and 2096 02:26:00.399 --> 02:26:05.520 the Wolf. A kid mounted on a high rock bestowed 2097 02:26:05.559 --> 02:26:08.559 all manner of abuse upon a wolf on the ground below. 2098 02:26:09.399 --> 02:26:13.680 The wolf, looking up, replied, do not think, vain creature 2099 02:26:13.719 --> 02:26:17.319 that you annoy me. I regard this ill language as 2100 02:26:17.399 --> 02:26:20.520 coming not from you, but from the place on which 2101 02:26:20.520 --> 02:26:28.360 you stand. The Lion, the bear and the fox. A 2102 02:26:28.440 --> 02:26:31.239 lion and a bear seized upon a kid at the 2103 02:26:31.239 --> 02:26:35.600 same moment and fought fiercely for its possession. When they 2104 02:26:35.639 --> 02:26:39.159 had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the 2105 02:26:39.239 --> 02:26:44.120 long combat, they lay down, exhausted with fatigue. A fox, 2106 02:26:44.120 --> 02:26:46.879 who had gone round them at a distance several times, 2107 02:26:47.520 --> 02:26:50.639 saw them both stretched on the ground and the kid, 2108 02:26:50.719 --> 02:26:54.120 lying untouched in the middle, ran in between them and 2109 02:26:54.319 --> 02:26:57.840 seized the kid, scampering off as fast as he could. 2110 02:26:59.079 --> 02:27:02.319 The lion and the bear saw him, but not being 2111 02:27:02.399 --> 02:27:05.520 able to get up, said, woe betide us, that we 2112 02:27:05.600 --> 02:27:08.799 should have fought and belabored ourselves only to serve the 2113 02:27:08.879 --> 02:27:13.920 turn of a fox. It sometimes happens that one man 2114 02:27:14.000 --> 02:27:19.840 has all the toil and another all the profit. The 2115 02:27:20.000 --> 02:27:26.040 stag in the ox stall. A stag, hardly pressed by 2116 02:27:26.040 --> 02:27:28.639 the hounds and blind from fear to the danger he 2117 02:27:28.760 --> 02:27:32.200 was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid 2118 02:27:32.280 --> 02:27:36.000 himself in a shed among the oxen. An ox gave 2119 02:27:36.120 --> 02:27:41.360 him this kindly warning, oh, unhappy creature, why should you thus, 2120 02:27:41.360 --> 02:27:45.520 of your own accord, incur destruction and trust yourself in 2121 02:27:45.600 --> 02:27:49.639 the house of your enemy? The stag replied, do you 2122 02:27:49.879 --> 02:27:52.879 only suffer me, friend, to stay where I am, and 2123 02:27:53.000 --> 02:27:57.040 I will undertake to find some favorable opportunity of affecting 2124 02:27:57.079 --> 02:28:01.159 my escape. At the approach of the evil, the herdsman 2125 02:28:01.280 --> 02:28:03.959 came to feed his cattle, but did not see the stag. 2126 02:28:04.680 --> 02:28:09.319 The stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express 2127 02:28:09.319 --> 02:28:12.799 his sincere thanks to the oxen, who had kindly afforded 2128 02:28:12.840 --> 02:28:16.520 him help in the hour of need. One of them 2129 02:28:16.639 --> 02:28:20.760 again answered him, we indeed wish you well, but the 2130 02:28:20.840 --> 02:28:24.280 danger is not over. There is one other yet to 2131 02:28:24.399 --> 02:28:27.360 pass through this shed, who has, as it were, a 2132 02:28:27.479 --> 02:28:30.799 hundred eyes, And until he is come and gone, your 2133 02:28:30.840 --> 02:28:35.000 life is still in peril. At that moment, the Mastery 2134 02:28:35.079 --> 02:28:38.520 himself entered, and, having had to complain that his oxen 2135 02:28:38.559 --> 02:28:41.520 had not been properly fed, he went up to their 2136 02:28:41.639 --> 02:28:44.719 racks and cried out, why is there such a scarcity 2137 02:28:44.719 --> 02:28:47.559 of fodder? There is not half enough straw for them 2138 02:28:47.559 --> 02:28:51.799 to lie on. Those lazy fellows have not even swept 2139 02:28:51.840 --> 02:28:56.719 the cobwebs away. While he thus examined everything, he spied 2140 02:28:56.760 --> 02:28:59.520 the antlers of the stag peeping out of the straw. 2141 02:29:00.239 --> 02:29:04.559 Summoning his laborers, he ordered that the stag should be killed. 2142 02:29:05.959 --> 02:29:10.120 What is safety for one is not always safety for another. 2143 02:29:12.360 --> 02:29:17.000 The eagle and the jackdaw. An eagle, flying down from 2144 02:29:17.000 --> 02:29:20.319 his eyrie on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb 2145 02:29:20.639 --> 02:29:24.440 and carried him aloft in his talons. A jackdaw, who 2146 02:29:24.440 --> 02:29:27.879 witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy, 2147 02:29:28.360 --> 02:29:32.079 and determined to emulate the strength and flight of the eagle. 2148 02:29:32.959 --> 02:29:35.920 He flew round with a great word of his wings 2149 02:29:36.280 --> 02:29:39.559 and settled upon a large sheep, with the intention of 2150 02:29:39.639 --> 02:29:43.760 carrying it off. But his claws becoming entangled in his fleece, 2151 02:29:44.440 --> 02:29:47.559 he was unable to release himself, although he fluttered with 2152 02:29:47.600 --> 02:29:51.239 his feathers as much as he could. The shepherd, seeing 2153 02:29:51.280 --> 02:29:54.760 what had happened, ran up and caught him. He at 2154 02:29:54.799 --> 02:29:57.680 once clipped his wings, and taking him home at night, 2155 02:29:58.159 --> 02:30:02.239 gave him to his children. We should not permit our 2156 02:30:02.280 --> 02:30:05.479 ambition to lead us beyond the limits of our power. 2157 02:30:07.600 --> 02:30:12.879 The three tradesmen. A great city was besieged, and its 2158 02:30:12.920 --> 02:30:15.959 inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of 2159 02:30:16.000 --> 02:30:20.680 protecting it from the enemy. A brick layer present earnestly 2160 02:30:20.719 --> 02:30:24.799 recommended bricks, as it afforded the best materials for an 2161 02:30:24.799 --> 02:30:31.280 effectual resistance. A carpenter with equal energy proposed timber as 2162 02:30:31.319 --> 02:30:35.959 providing a preferable method of defense, upon which a courier 2163 02:30:36.000 --> 02:30:40.239 stood up and said, Sirs, I differ from you. Altogether. 2164 02:30:40.840 --> 02:30:44.399 There was no material for resistance equal to a covering 2165 02:30:44.440 --> 02:30:49.479 of hides, and nothing so good as leather every man 2166 02:30:49.840 --> 02:30:56.239 for his trade. The dancing monkeys. A prince had some 2167 02:30:56.319 --> 02:31:00.879 monkeys trained to dance. Being naturally great mimics of men's actions, 2168 02:31:01.280 --> 02:31:05.719 they showed themselves most apt students, and when arrayed in 2169 02:31:05.760 --> 02:31:09.280 their rich clothes and masks, they danced as well as 2170 02:31:09.319 --> 02:31:13.399 any of the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with 2171 02:31:13.520 --> 02:31:18.600 great applause, till on one occasion a courtier, bent on mischief, 2172 02:31:19.000 --> 02:31:22.040 took from his pocket a handful of nuts and threw 2173 02:31:22.200 --> 02:31:25.440 them upon the stage. The monkeys, at the sight of 2174 02:31:25.479 --> 02:31:29.719 the nuts, forgot their dancing and became as indeed they 2175 02:31:29.760 --> 02:31:34.520 were monkeys instead of actors, and pulling off their masks 2176 02:31:34.559 --> 02:31:37.719 and tearing their robes, they fought with one another for 2177 02:31:37.799 --> 02:31:41.360 the nuts. The dancing spectacle thus came to an end, 2178 02:31:41.760 --> 02:31:46.200 amid the laughter and ridicule of the audience. Those who 2179 02:31:46.239 --> 02:31:53.120 assume a character will betray themselves by their actions. The 2180 02:31:53.280 --> 02:31:58.959 ass and the grasshopper. An ass, having heard some grasshoppers chirping, 2181 02:31:59.520 --> 02:32:02.920 was highly he enchanted, and, desiring to possess the same 2182 02:32:03.079 --> 02:32:06.440 charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived 2183 02:32:06.479 --> 02:32:11.159 on to give them such beautiful voices, They replied, the 2184 02:32:11.280 --> 02:32:15.680 dew the ass resolved that he would live only on dew, 2185 02:32:16.280 --> 02:32:20.760 and in a short time died of hunger. Where one 2186 02:32:20.799 --> 02:32:27.600 may live, another may starve. The ass in the lion's skin. 2187 02:32:29.000 --> 02:32:32.360 An ass, having put on the lion's skin, roamed about 2188 02:32:32.360 --> 02:32:35.319 in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the 2189 02:32:35.360 --> 02:32:38.920 foolish animals he met with in his wanderings. At last, 2190 02:32:39.200 --> 02:32:42.920 meeting a fox, he tried to frighten him also, But 2191 02:32:43.000 --> 02:32:46.079 the fox no sooner heard the sound of his voice 2192 02:32:46.159 --> 02:32:50.280 than he exclaimed. I might possibly have been frightened myself 2193 02:32:50.719 --> 02:32:55.280 if I had not heard your bray. No disguise will 2194 02:32:55.360 --> 02:33:02.639 hide one's true character. The Boy Babe, a boy bathing 2195 02:33:02.680 --> 02:33:06.040 in a river was in danger of being drowned. He 2196 02:33:06.079 --> 02:33:09.959 called out to a traveler passing by for help. The traveler, 2197 02:33:10.159 --> 02:33:14.520 instead of holding out a helping hand, stood up unconcernedly 2198 02:33:15.040 --> 02:33:19.479 and scolded the boy for his imprudence. Oh, sir, cried 2199 02:33:19.520 --> 02:33:22.600 the youth. Pray help me now, and scold me afterwards. 2200 02:33:23.719 --> 02:33:30.399 Counsel without help is useless. The cock and the Fox. 2201 02:33:31.760 --> 02:33:35.479 The fox, passing early one summer's morning near a farmyard, 2202 02:33:36.079 --> 02:33:39.079 was caught in a springe which the farmer had planted 2203 02:33:39.120 --> 02:33:42.120 there for that end. The cock, at a distance saw 2204 02:33:42.159 --> 02:33:45.879 what happened, and, hardly yet daring to trust herself too 2205 02:33:45.920 --> 02:33:50.239 near so dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously and peeped 2206 02:33:50.280 --> 02:33:53.719 at him. Reynard addressed himself to him, with all the 2207 02:33:53.760 --> 02:33:59.680 designing artifice imaginable. Dear cousin, said he, you see what 2208 02:33:59.719 --> 02:34:04.360 an unfortunate accident has befallen me here and all upon 2209 02:34:04.440 --> 02:34:07.799 your account. For as I was creeping through under hedge 2210 02:34:08.040 --> 02:34:11.399 in my way homeward, I heard you crow, and was 2211 02:34:11.520 --> 02:34:14.200 resolved to ask you how you did before I went 2212 02:34:14.200 --> 02:34:17.479 away any further. But I met with this disaster, and 2213 02:34:17.559 --> 02:34:20.840 therefore now I must ask you for a knife to 2214 02:34:20.879 --> 02:34:24.639 cut this string, or at least to conceal my misfortune 2215 02:34:24.799 --> 02:34:28.239 till I have gnawed it asunder. The cock, seeing how 2216 02:34:28.239 --> 02:34:32.200 the case stood, made no reply, but posted away as 2217 02:34:32.319 --> 02:34:35.680 fast as he could, and told the former who came 2218 02:34:35.799 --> 02:34:40.239 and killed the fox. To aid the vicious is to 2219 02:34:40.280 --> 02:34:45.399 become a partner in their guilt. End of Section nine. 2220 02:34:45.959 --> 02:34:51.399 The Viper and the File. A viper entering the workshop 2221 02:34:51.440 --> 02:34:54.479 of a smith, sought from the tools the means of 2222 02:34:54.520 --> 02:34:59.000 satisfying his hunger. He more particularly addressed himself to a 2223 02:34:59.120 --> 02:35:02.239 file and asked of him the favor of a meal. 2224 02:35:03.000 --> 02:35:07.440 The file replied, you must indeed be a simple minded 2225 02:35:07.479 --> 02:35:11.479 fellow if you expect to get anything from me, who 2226 02:35:11.600 --> 02:35:14.520 am accustomed to take from every one and never to 2227 02:35:14.559 --> 02:35:22.200 give anything in return. The covetous are poor givers. The 2228 02:35:22.239 --> 02:35:28.040 oxen and the axle trees. A heavy wagon was being 2229 02:35:28.120 --> 02:35:30.959 dragged along a country lane by a team of oxen. 2230 02:35:31.799 --> 02:35:36.360 The axle trees groaned and creaked terribly when the oxen, 2231 02:35:36.440 --> 02:35:41.840 turning round, thus addressed the wheels, hallo there, why do 2232 02:35:42.040 --> 02:35:45.520 you make so much noise? We bear all the labor, 2233 02:35:45.879 --> 02:35:50.399 and we not. You ought to cry out those who 2234 02:35:50.440 --> 02:35:56.600 suffer most, cry out the least. The bear and the beehives. 2235 02:35:57.840 --> 02:36:00.479 A bear that had found his way into a garden 2236 02:36:00.479 --> 02:36:03.799 where bees were kept, began to turn over the hives 2237 02:36:03.840 --> 02:36:08.079 and devour the honey. The bees settled in swarms about 2238 02:36:08.079 --> 02:36:12.159 his head and stung his eyes and nose so much that, 2239 02:36:12.360 --> 02:36:15.079 maddened with pain, he tore the skin from his head 2240 02:36:15.200 --> 02:36:23.120 with his own claws. The thrush and the swallow. A 2241 02:36:23.159 --> 02:36:26.440 young thrush who lived in an orchard once became acquainted 2242 02:36:26.440 --> 02:36:30.399 with a swallow. A friendship sprang up between them, and 2243 02:36:30.520 --> 02:36:33.920 the swallow, after skimming the orchard and the neighboring meadow, 2244 02:36:34.440 --> 02:36:37.440 would every now and then come and visit the thrush. 2245 02:36:38.120 --> 02:36:41.639 Thee thrush, hopping from branch to branch, would welcome him 2246 02:36:41.639 --> 02:36:45.360 with his most cheerful note. Oh, mother, said he to 2247 02:36:45.440 --> 02:36:48.760 his parent one day. Never had creatures such a friend 2248 02:36:48.799 --> 02:36:52.840 as I have in this same swallow, nor ever any mother, 2249 02:36:53.120 --> 02:36:56.040 replied the parent bird, such a silly son as I 2250 02:36:56.159 --> 02:36:59.959 have in this same thrush. Long before the approach of wind, 2251 02:37:00.760 --> 02:37:04.040 your friend will have left you, and while you sit 2252 02:37:04.319 --> 02:37:07.799 shivering on a leafless bow, he will be sporting under 2253 02:37:07.840 --> 02:37:16.200 sunny skies hundreds of miles away. The sensible ass, an 2254 02:37:16.319 --> 02:37:19.959 old fellow in time of war, was allowing his ass 2255 02:37:19.959 --> 02:37:22.920 to feed in a green meadow when he was alarmed 2256 02:37:22.959 --> 02:37:26.360 by a sudden advance of the enemy. He tried every 2257 02:37:26.440 --> 02:37:29.559 means in his power to urge the ass to fly. 2258 02:37:30.239 --> 02:37:33.559 But in vain the enemy are upon us, said he. 2259 02:37:34.399 --> 02:37:38.440 And what will the enemy do? Asked the ass? Will 2260 02:37:38.479 --> 02:37:41.520 they put two pairs of panniers on my back? Instead 2261 02:37:41.520 --> 02:37:45.719 of one? No, answered the man. There is no fear 2262 02:37:45.760 --> 02:37:50.159 of that, Why, then, replied the ass, I'll not stir 2263 02:37:50.360 --> 02:37:53.520 an inch. I am born to be a slave, and 2264 02:37:53.719 --> 02:37:57.319 my greatest enemy is he who gives me most to carry. 2265 02:37:59.040 --> 02:38:03.360 The Lion and the ass. A lion and an ass 2266 02:38:03.440 --> 02:38:06.959 made an agreement to go out hunting together. By and 2267 02:38:07.000 --> 02:38:10.440 by they came to a cave where wild goats abode. 2268 02:38:11.079 --> 02:38:13.399 The lion took up his station at the mouth of 2269 02:38:13.440 --> 02:38:17.760 the cave, and the ass, going within, kicked and brayed 2270 02:38:17.799 --> 02:38:21.239 and made a mighty fuss to frighten them out. When 2271 02:38:21.280 --> 02:38:24.120 the lion had caught them, the ass came out and 2272 02:38:24.200 --> 02:38:28.239 asked him if he had not made a noble fight. Yes, indeed, 2273 02:38:28.520 --> 02:38:31.680 said the lion, and I assure you you would have 2274 02:38:31.719 --> 02:38:34.879 frightened me too, if I had not known you to 2275 02:38:34.959 --> 02:38:41.760 be an ass. The fox and the ape. Upon the 2276 02:38:41.879 --> 02:38:45.559 decease of the lion, the beasts of the forest assembled 2277 02:38:45.600 --> 02:38:51.239 to choose another king. The ape played so many grimaces, gambols, 2278 02:38:51.280 --> 02:38:55.440 and antiq tricks that he was elected by a large majority, 2279 02:38:56.040 --> 02:38:59.479 and the crown was placed upon his head. The fox, 2280 02:38:59.760 --> 02:39:04.000 in of this distinction, seeing soon after a trap baited 2281 02:39:04.040 --> 02:39:07.479 with a piece of meat, approached the new king and said, 2282 02:39:07.520 --> 02:39:11.920 with mock humility, may it please your majesty, I have 2283 02:39:12.000 --> 02:39:15.440 found on your domain a treasure to which, if you 2284 02:39:15.479 --> 02:39:19.319 will deign to accompany me, I will conduct you. The 2285 02:39:19.399 --> 02:39:23.079 ape thereupon set off with the fox, and, on arriving 2286 02:39:23.120 --> 02:39:27.200 at the spot, laid his paw upon the meat, snap 2287 02:39:27.399 --> 02:39:31.159 went the trap and caught him by the fingers. Mad 2288 02:39:31.280 --> 02:39:34.680 with the shame and the pain, he reproached the fox 2289 02:39:34.719 --> 02:39:39.159 for a false thief and a traitor. Reynard laughed heartily 2290 02:39:39.239 --> 02:39:43.360 and said, with a sneer, you a king and not 2291 02:39:43.600 --> 02:39:50.440 understand a trap? The lion and the wolf. A wolf 2292 02:39:50.639 --> 02:39:54.000 roaming by the mountain side saw his own shadow as 2293 02:39:54.040 --> 02:39:58.440 the sun was setting, becoming greatly extended and magnified, and 2294 02:39:58.520 --> 02:40:01.680 he said to himself, why should I, being of such 2295 02:40:01.719 --> 02:40:05.520 an immense size, and extending nearly an acre and lyth, 2296 02:40:06.079 --> 02:40:09.520 be afraid of a lion? Ought I not to be 2297 02:40:09.600 --> 02:40:13.719 acknowledged as king of all the collected beasts? While he 2298 02:40:13.879 --> 02:40:17.840 was indulging in these proud thoughts, a lion fell upon 2299 02:40:17.920 --> 02:40:22.079 him and killed him. He exclaimed, with a too late repentance, 2300 02:40:22.680 --> 02:40:27.360 wretched me. This overestimation of myself is the cause of 2301 02:40:27.479 --> 02:40:32.799 my destruction. It is not wise to hold too exalted 2302 02:40:32.840 --> 02:40:39.399 an opinion of oneself, the miller, his son, and their ass. 2303 02:40:41.280 --> 02:40:44.479 A miller and his son were driving their ass to affair. 2304 02:40:45.120 --> 02:40:48.399 On the way, they met a group of girls. Look there, 2305 02:40:48.719 --> 02:40:51.959 cried one of them. Did you ever see such fools 2306 02:40:52.399 --> 02:40:55.399 to be trudging along on foot when they might be riding. 2307 02:40:56.120 --> 02:40:59.680 The old man, hearing this, quietly bade his son get 2308 02:40:59.719 --> 02:41:03.159 on the ass and walked along merrily by his side. 2309 02:41:03.959 --> 02:41:06.280 Presently they came to a group of old men in 2310 02:41:06.399 --> 02:41:11.000 earnest debate. There said one of them. It proves what 2311 02:41:11.079 --> 02:41:14.600 I was saying, what respect is shown to old age 2312 02:41:14.639 --> 02:41:18.520 in these days? Do you see that idle young rogue 2313 02:41:18.760 --> 02:41:23.000 riding while his old father has to walk? Get down, you, 2314 02:41:23.200 --> 02:41:27.000 scape grace, and let the old man rest his weary limbs. 2315 02:41:27.959 --> 02:41:30.799 Upon this, the father made his son dismount and got 2316 02:41:30.879 --> 02:41:34.159 up himself. In this manner, they had not proceeded far 2317 02:41:34.719 --> 02:41:38.559 when they met a company of women and children. Why you, 2318 02:41:38.920 --> 02:41:43.000 lazy old man, cried several tongues at once. How can 2319 02:41:43.040 --> 02:41:46.159 you ride upon the beast while that poor little lad 2320 02:41:46.200 --> 02:41:48.760 there can scarcely keep pace by the side of you. 2321 02:41:49.559 --> 02:41:53.799 The good natured miller immediately took up his son behind him. 2322 02:41:54.159 --> 02:41:58.479 They had now almost reached the town. Pray, honest, friend, 2323 02:41:58.840 --> 02:42:02.959 said a townsman, Is that ass your own? Yes, said 2324 02:42:02.959 --> 02:42:06.719 the old man. Oh, one would not have thought so 2325 02:42:06.840 --> 02:42:09.799 by the way you load him. Why you two fellows 2326 02:42:09.840 --> 02:42:12.360 are better able to carry the poor beast than he. 2327 02:42:12.479 --> 02:42:17.680 You anything to please you, said the old man. So, 2328 02:42:17.959 --> 02:42:22.280 Alighting with his son, they tied the ass's legs together, and, 2329 02:42:22.360 --> 02:42:25.079 by the help of a pole, endeavored to carry him 2330 02:42:25.159 --> 02:42:28.520 on their shoulders over a bridge. The people ran out 2331 02:42:28.520 --> 02:42:32.000 in crowds to laugh at the sight, till the ass, 2332 02:42:32.040 --> 02:42:36.719 not liking the noise nor his situation, kicked asunder the cords, and, 2333 02:42:36.879 --> 02:42:40.120 tumbling off the pole, fell into the river. On this 2334 02:42:40.360 --> 02:42:42.920 the old man made the best of his way home 2335 02:42:43.000 --> 02:42:47.799 with his son, convinced that by endeavoring to please everybody, 2336 02:42:48.239 --> 02:42:52.680 he had succeeded in pleasing nobody, and lost his ass 2337 02:42:52.719 --> 02:42:59.360 into the bargain. The Travelers and the plane Tree. Two travelers, 2338 02:42:59.680 --> 02:43:03.159 worn by the heat of the summer's sun, laid themselves 2339 02:43:03.200 --> 02:43:06.319 down at noon under the wide, spreading branches of a 2340 02:43:06.360 --> 02:43:10.079 plane tree. As they rested under its shade, one of 2341 02:43:10.079 --> 02:43:14.479 the travelers said to the other, what a singularly useless 2342 02:43:14.520 --> 02:43:18.040 tree is? The plain it bears no fruit and is 2343 02:43:18.120 --> 02:43:21.559 not of the least service to man. The plain tree, 2344 02:43:21.600 --> 02:43:27.520 interrupting him, said, you, ungrateful fellows, do you, while receiving 2345 02:43:27.600 --> 02:43:31.600 benefits from me and resting under my shade, dare to 2346 02:43:31.680 --> 02:43:37.680 describe me as useless and unprofitable? Some men despise their 2347 02:43:37.719 --> 02:43:43.840 best blessings because they come without cost. The Tortoise and 2348 02:43:44.159 --> 02:43:48.719 the two Ducks. A tortoise, becoming tired of her humble home, 2349 02:43:49.360 --> 02:43:52.920 resolved to visit foreign lands. But she did not know 2350 02:43:52.959 --> 02:43:56.520 which way to go. She repaired to two ducks to 2351 02:43:56.559 --> 02:43:59.319 show her the road, and they told her that the 2352 02:43:59.360 --> 02:44:02.479 best way to travel was through the air. On her 2353 02:44:02.559 --> 02:44:05.680 imploring their help, they made her grasp a stick with 2354 02:44:05.719 --> 02:44:10.079 her mouth, and so they bore her aloft as they 2355 02:44:10.120 --> 02:44:13.479 flew along. The gaping people beneath shouted at sight of 2356 02:44:13.520 --> 02:44:17.799 the spectacle. The vain tartis mistook their shouts for applause. 2357 02:44:18.559 --> 02:44:22.600 I am surely a queen, said she, But alas as 2358 02:44:22.639 --> 02:44:25.760 she opened her mouth to speak, she lost her hold 2359 02:44:25.799 --> 02:44:28.879 of the stick, and, falling to the ground, was dashed 2360 02:44:28.959 --> 02:44:33.280 to pieces. Those who were not able to roam should 2361 02:44:33.319 --> 02:44:40.399 stay at home. The Countryman and the Snake, a villager 2362 02:44:40.479 --> 02:44:44.159 found a snake under a hedge, almost dead with cold. 2363 02:44:44.959 --> 02:44:47.600 He could not help having compassion for the poor creature, 2364 02:44:48.200 --> 02:44:50.520 so he brought it home and laid it upon the 2365 02:44:50.559 --> 02:44:53.799 hearth near the fire. But it had not lain there 2366 02:44:53.879 --> 02:44:57.680 long before, being revived with the heat, it began to 2367 02:44:57.719 --> 02:45:01.719 erect itself and fly at his wife and shechildren. The countryman, 2368 02:45:01.879 --> 02:45:05.719 hearing an outcry and perceiving what the matter was, caught 2369 02:45:05.840 --> 02:45:09.559 up a mattock and soon despatched him upbraiding him at 2370 02:45:09.559 --> 02:45:13.600 the same time in these words, is this vile wretch 2371 02:45:13.719 --> 02:45:16.319 the rewards you make to him that saved your life? 2372 02:45:17.840 --> 02:45:21.280 Kindness to the ungrateful, and the vicious is thrown away. 2373 02:45:23.280 --> 02:45:28.159 The madman who sold wisdom. A madman once set himself 2374 02:45:28.200 --> 02:45:32.000 up in the marketplace, and, with loud cries, announced that 2375 02:45:32.159 --> 02:45:37.040 he would sell wisdom. The people at once crowded about him, 2376 02:45:37.520 --> 02:45:40.600 and some gave him gold for his wares, But they 2377 02:45:40.639 --> 02:45:42.799 each got only a blow on the ear and a 2378 02:45:42.840 --> 02:45:46.440 bunch of thread, and were well laughed at by their companions. 2379 02:45:47.280 --> 02:45:50.680 One of them, however, took it more seriously than the others, 2380 02:45:51.120 --> 02:45:55.360 and asked a wise sage what it meant. It means? 2381 02:45:55.399 --> 02:45:58.399 Said the sage that if one would not be hurt 2382 02:45:58.440 --> 02:46:01.600 by a madman, he must put a bunch of thread 2383 02:46:01.719 --> 02:46:06.600 over his ears. So the madman was really selling wisdom. 2384 02:46:08.399 --> 02:46:13.120 The leopard and the fox. A leopard, being no longer 2385 02:46:13.159 --> 02:46:16.200 able by reason of old age to pursue his prey, 2386 02:46:16.680 --> 02:46:20.000 feigned illness and gave out that he would confer great 2387 02:46:20.079 --> 02:46:24.280 favors upon any animal that would cure him. A cunning 2388 02:46:24.360 --> 02:46:28.079 fox heard of the proclamation and lost no time in 2389 02:46:28.159 --> 02:46:31.719 visiting the leopard, first making himself look as much like 2390 02:46:31.799 --> 02:46:35.879 a physician as he could. On seeing him, the leopard 2391 02:46:35.920 --> 02:46:39.719 declared that such a distinguished looking animal could not fail 2392 02:46:39.799 --> 02:46:42.959 to cure him. This so flattered the fox that he 2393 02:46:43.000 --> 02:46:46.559 came near and at once fell a victim to his vanity, 2394 02:46:47.000 --> 02:46:50.440 being unable to flee because of the disguise which fettered 2395 02:46:50.440 --> 02:46:55.520 his limbs. Flattery is a dangerous weapon in the hands 2396 02:46:55.520 --> 02:47:03.680 of an enemy. The hair afraid of his ears. The lion, 2397 02:47:03.879 --> 02:47:07.079 being badly hurt by the horns of a goat, swore 2398 02:47:07.200 --> 02:47:10.639 in a great rage that every animal with horns should 2399 02:47:10.680 --> 02:47:14.879 be banished from his kingdom. A silly hare, seeing the 2400 02:47:14.959 --> 02:47:18.079 shadows of his ears, was in great fear lest they 2401 02:47:18.120 --> 02:47:24.120 should be taken for horns and scampered away. The peacock 2402 02:47:24.239 --> 02:47:30.639 and the crane. A peacock, spreading its gorgeous tail, mocked 2403 02:47:30.639 --> 02:47:34.159 a crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of 2404 02:47:34.200 --> 02:47:38.200 its plumage, and saying, I am robed like a king 2405 02:47:38.319 --> 02:47:41.239 in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow, 2406 02:47:41.840 --> 02:47:46.120 while you have not a bit of color on your wings. True, 2407 02:47:46.600 --> 02:47:49.559 replied the crane. But I soar to the heights of 2408 02:47:49.600 --> 02:47:53.079 heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while 2409 02:47:53.200 --> 02:47:56.440 you walk below like a cock among the birds of 2410 02:47:56.479 --> 02:48:03.840 the dunghill. Fine feathers don't make fine birds. The mouse 2411 02:48:04.120 --> 02:48:08.600 and the weasel. A little starveling mouse had made his 2412 02:48:08.680 --> 02:48:12.239 way with some difficulty into a basket of corn, where, 2413 02:48:12.479 --> 02:48:16.760 finding the entertainment so good, he stuffed and crammed himself 2414 02:48:16.799 --> 02:48:19.879 to such an extent that when he would have got 2415 02:48:19.920 --> 02:48:23.319 out again, he found the hole too small to allow 2416 02:48:23.399 --> 02:48:26.879 his puffed up body to pass. As he sat at 2417 02:48:26.879 --> 02:48:30.559 the hole groaning over his fate, a weasel, who was 2418 02:48:30.600 --> 02:48:33.719 brought to the spot by his cries, thus addressed him, 2419 02:48:34.360 --> 02:48:37.479 stop there, my friend, and fast till you are thin, 2420 02:48:38.079 --> 02:48:40.879 for you will never come out till you reduce yourself 2421 02:48:40.959 --> 02:48:46.120 to the same condition as when you entered. The Fox 2422 02:48:46.319 --> 02:48:50.879 and the Tiger, a skillful archer coming into the woods, 2423 02:48:51.360 --> 02:48:55.040 directed his arrows so successfully that he slew many wild 2424 02:48:55.079 --> 02:48:59.799 beasts and pursued several others. This put the whole savage 2425 02:48:59.799 --> 02:49:03.799 com mind into a fearful consternation, and made them fly 2426 02:49:04.000 --> 02:49:07.920 to the most retired thickets for refuge. At last, the 2427 02:49:08.000 --> 02:49:12.280 tiger resumed courage, and, bidding them not be afraid, said 2428 02:49:12.319 --> 02:49:16.040 that he alone would engage the enemy, telling them they 2429 02:49:16.120 --> 02:49:20.440 might depend upon his valor and strength to revenge their wrongs. 2430 02:49:21.319 --> 02:49:24.559 In the midst of these threats, while he was lashing 2431 02:49:24.639 --> 02:49:27.440 himself with his tail and tearing up the ground for anger, 2432 02:49:28.000 --> 02:49:32.120 an arrow pierced his ribs and hung by its barbed 2433 02:49:32.159 --> 02:49:35.520 point in his side. He set up a hideous and 2434 02:49:35.680 --> 02:49:39.479 loud roar, occasioned by the anguish which he felt, and 2435 02:49:39.639 --> 02:49:42.239 endeavored to draw out the painful dart with his teeth. 2436 02:49:42.840 --> 02:49:46.440 When the fox approached him, inquiring with an air of surprise, 2437 02:49:46.920 --> 02:49:49.399 who it was that they could have strength and courage 2438 02:49:49.479 --> 02:49:53.000 enough to wound so mighty and valorous a beast, ah 2439 02:49:53.200 --> 02:49:56.959 said the tiger, I was mistaken in my reckoning. It 2440 02:49:57.200 --> 02:50:03.120 was that invincible man Yonder. There was always some vulnerable 2441 02:50:03.159 --> 02:50:08.920 point in the strongest armor. The fox and the Turkeys. 2442 02:50:10.040 --> 02:50:13.239 A fox bied some turkeys roosting in a tree. He 2443 02:50:13.399 --> 02:50:17.079 managed to attract their attention, and then ran about the tree, 2444 02:50:17.159 --> 02:50:20.719 pretending to climb, walked on his hind legs, and did 2445 02:50:20.760 --> 02:50:24.440 all sorts of tricks. Filled with fear, the turkeys watched 2446 02:50:24.520 --> 02:50:28.079 every one of his movements until they became dizzy, and 2447 02:50:28.360 --> 02:50:33.159 one by one fell from their safe perch. By too 2448 02:50:33.239 --> 02:50:36.479 much attention to danger, we may fall victims to it. 2449 02:50:38.360 --> 02:50:43.399 The eagle, the cat, and the wild sow. An eagle 2450 02:50:43.440 --> 02:50:45.760 had made her nest at the top of a lofty oak. 2451 02:50:46.440 --> 02:50:49.840 A cat, having found a convenient hole, lived with her 2452 02:50:49.920 --> 02:50:52.399 kittens in the middle of the trunk, and a wild 2453 02:50:52.479 --> 02:50:55.159 sow with her young, had taken up shelter in a 2454 02:50:55.200 --> 02:50:59.120 hollow at its foot. The cat resolved to destroy by 2455 02:50:59.120 --> 02:51:03.239 her arts this chance made colony. She climbed to the 2456 02:51:03.319 --> 02:51:07.200 nest of the eagle and said, destruction is preparing for 2457 02:51:07.280 --> 02:51:10.680 you and me too. The wild sow, whom you may 2458 02:51:10.719 --> 02:51:14.200 see daily digging up the earth, wishes to uproot the 2459 02:51:14.200 --> 02:51:18.360 oak that she may, on its fall seize our families 2460 02:51:18.399 --> 02:51:21.959 as food. Then she crept down to the cave of 2461 02:51:22.000 --> 02:51:25.760 the sow and said, your children are in great danger, 2462 02:51:26.239 --> 02:51:28.479 for as soon as you shall go out with your 2463 02:51:28.520 --> 02:51:32.000 litter to find food, the eagle is prepared to pounce 2464 02:51:32.079 --> 02:51:35.440 upon one of your little pigs. When night came, she 2465 02:51:35.520 --> 02:51:39.040 went forth with silent foot and obtained food for herself 2466 02:51:39.079 --> 02:51:42.520 and her kittens, But feigning to be afraid, she kept 2467 02:51:42.520 --> 02:51:46.920 the lookout all through the day. Meanwhile, the eagle, full 2468 02:51:46.920 --> 02:51:49.920 of fear of the sow, sat still on the branches, 2469 02:51:50.360 --> 02:51:53.680 and the sow, terrified by the eagle, did not dare 2470 02:51:53.760 --> 02:51:57.000 to go out from her cave. And thus they, each 2471 02:51:57.200 --> 02:52:02.920 with their families, perished from hunger. Those who star up 2472 02:52:03.079 --> 02:52:07.680 enmities are not to be trusted. End of Section ten. 2473 02:52:08.479 --> 02:52:14.399 The peacock and the magpie, the birds once met together 2474 02:52:14.520 --> 02:52:17.600 to choose a king, and among others. The peacock was 2475 02:52:17.639 --> 02:52:21.680 a candidate. Spreading his showy tail and stalking up and 2476 02:52:21.719 --> 02:52:24.959 down with affected grandeur. He caught the eyes of the 2477 02:52:25.000 --> 02:52:30.440 silly multitude by his brilliant appearance, and was elected with acclamation. 2478 02:52:31.360 --> 02:52:34.879 The magpie then stepped forth into the midst of the assembly, 2479 02:52:35.520 --> 02:52:39.680 and thus addressed the new King. May it please your 2480 02:52:39.760 --> 02:52:44.440 Majesty elect to permit a humbler admirer to propose a question, 2481 02:52:45.319 --> 02:52:48.760 As our King, we put our lives and fortunes in 2482 02:52:48.799 --> 02:52:53.239 your hands, If therefore the eagle, the vulture, and the 2483 02:52:53.360 --> 02:52:57.360 kite should make a descent upon us, what means would 2484 02:52:57.399 --> 02:53:01.840 you take for our defense? This pithy question opened the 2485 02:53:01.879 --> 02:53:04.760 eyes of the birds to the weakness of their choice, 2486 02:53:05.360 --> 02:53:12.079 and they canceled the election. The two goats. Two goats 2487 02:53:12.120 --> 02:53:15.680 started at the same moment from opposite ends to cross 2488 02:53:15.719 --> 02:53:18.559 a rude bridge that was only wide enough for one 2489 02:53:18.600 --> 02:53:21.280 to cross at a time. Meeting in the middle of 2490 02:53:21.319 --> 02:53:25.120 the bridge, neither would give way to the other. They 2491 02:53:25.319 --> 02:53:28.799 locked horns and fought for the right of way until 2492 02:53:28.840 --> 02:53:32.319 they both fell into the torrent below and were drowned. 2493 02:53:34.159 --> 02:53:39.079 The dove and the ant. An ant went to the 2494 02:53:39.079 --> 02:53:42.159 bank of a river to quench its thirst, and, being 2495 02:53:42.200 --> 02:53:45.120 carried away by the rush of the stream, was on 2496 02:53:45.159 --> 02:53:48.360 the point of being drowned. A dove sitting on a 2497 02:53:48.399 --> 02:53:51.639 tree overhanging the water, plucked the leaf and let it 2498 02:53:51.680 --> 02:53:55.120 fall into the stream close to her. The ant, climbing 2499 02:53:55.159 --> 02:53:59.360 on it, floated in safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards, 2500 02:53:59.399 --> 02:54:02.360 a bird care came close and stood under the tree 2501 02:54:02.799 --> 02:54:06.440 and laid his lime twigs for the dove which sat 2502 02:54:06.440 --> 02:54:11.559 in the branches. The ant, perceiving his design, stung him 2503 02:54:11.600 --> 02:54:15.000 in the foot. He suddenly threw down the twigs, and 2504 02:54:15.079 --> 02:54:20.079 thereupon made the dove take wing. The grateful heart will 2505 02:54:20.120 --> 02:54:26.000 always find opportunities to show its gratitude. The eagle and 2506 02:54:26.159 --> 02:54:30.920 the beetle. The eagle and the beetle were at enmity together, 2507 02:54:31.440 --> 02:54:35.440 and they destroyed one another's nests. The eagle gave the 2508 02:54:35.479 --> 02:54:39.200 first provocation is seizing upon and in eating the young 2509 02:54:39.280 --> 02:54:42.479 ones of the beetle. The beetle got by stealth at 2510 02:54:42.600 --> 02:54:45.799 the eagle's eggs and rolled them out of the nest, 2511 02:54:46.239 --> 02:54:49.520 and followed the eagle even into the presence of Jupiter. 2512 02:54:50.680 --> 02:54:54.399 On the eagle making his complaint, Jupiter ordered him to 2513 02:54:54.479 --> 02:54:58.120 make his nest in his lap. And while Jupiter had 2514 02:54:58.159 --> 02:55:02.120 the eggs in his lap, the beetle came flying about him, 2515 02:55:02.479 --> 02:55:06.319 and Jupiter, rising up unawares to drive him away from 2516 02:55:06.319 --> 02:55:10.920 his head, threw down the eggs and broke them. The 2517 02:55:11.040 --> 02:55:14.639 week often revenged themselves on those who used them ill, 2518 02:55:15.200 --> 02:55:21.760 even though they be the more powerful. The mule. A 2519 02:55:21.840 --> 02:55:25.639 mule frolicsome from want of work and from overmuch corn, 2520 02:55:26.360 --> 02:55:30.319 galloped about in a very extravagant manner, and said to himself, 2521 02:55:31.000 --> 02:55:34.959 my father surely was a high mettled racer, and I 2522 02:55:35.120 --> 02:55:39.159 am his own child in speed and spirit. On the 2523 02:55:39.200 --> 02:55:43.280 next day, being driven a long journey and feeling very weary, 2524 02:55:43.879 --> 02:55:48.120 he exclaimed, in a disconsolate tone, I must have made 2525 02:55:48.159 --> 02:55:52.040 a mistake. My father, after all, could have been only 2526 02:55:52.239 --> 02:56:00.719 an ass the cat, the weasel, and the rabbit. While 2527 02:56:00.760 --> 02:56:03.680 a rabbit was absent from his hole one day, a 2528 02:56:03.760 --> 02:56:07.600 weasel took possession of it. On the rabbit's return, seeing 2529 02:56:07.600 --> 02:56:11.280 the weasel's nose sticking out, he said, you must leave 2530 02:56:11.319 --> 02:56:15.079 this hole immediately. There is only room for one, and 2531 02:56:15.280 --> 02:56:19.079 it has always belonged to me and my father's before me. 2532 02:56:20.079 --> 02:56:22.520 The more reason that you should give it up now, 2533 02:56:22.959 --> 02:56:27.040 said the weasel, and leave its possession to me. As 2534 02:56:27.079 --> 02:56:30.239 they could not settle thee dispute, they agreed to leave 2535 02:56:30.280 --> 02:56:33.920 the question of ownership to a wise old cat, to 2536 02:56:33.959 --> 02:56:38.280 whom they went without more ado. I am deaf, said 2537 02:56:38.280 --> 02:56:42.479 the cat. Put your noses close to my ears. No 2538 02:56:42.600 --> 02:56:46.079 sooner had they done so, than she clapped a paw 2539 02:56:46.280 --> 02:56:51.319 upon each of them and killed them both. These strong 2540 02:56:51.479 --> 02:56:55.360 are apt to settle all questions by the rule of might. 2541 02:56:57.120 --> 02:57:02.079 The rat and the frog. A rat in an evil 2542 02:57:02.159 --> 02:57:05.920 day made acquaintance with a frog, and they set off 2543 02:57:06.000 --> 02:57:09.760 on their travels together. The frog, on pretense of great 2544 02:57:09.799 --> 02:57:13.239 affection and of keeping his companion out of harm's way, 2545 02:57:14.200 --> 02:57:17.479 tied the rat's foot to his own hind leg, and 2546 02:57:17.600 --> 02:57:21.680 thus they proceeded for some distance by land. Presently they 2547 02:57:21.760 --> 02:57:25.280 came to some water, and the frog, bidding the rat 2548 02:57:25.319 --> 02:57:30.559 have good courage, began to swim across. They had, scarcely, however, 2549 02:57:30.719 --> 02:57:34.360 arrived midway when the frog took a sudden plunge to 2550 02:57:34.440 --> 02:57:38.920 the bottom, dragging the unfortunate rat after him. But the 2551 02:57:38.959 --> 02:57:42.440 struggling and floundering of the rat made so great a 2552 02:57:42.479 --> 02:57:45.639 commotion in the water that it attracted the attention of 2553 02:57:45.719 --> 02:57:49.280 a kite, who, pouncing down and bearing off the rat, 2554 02:57:49.719 --> 02:57:52.920 carried away the frog at the same time in his train. 2555 02:57:54.440 --> 02:57:59.799 Inconsiderate and ill matched alliances generally and in ruin and 2556 02:57:59.840 --> 02:58:02.959 the the man who compasses the destruction of his neighbor 2557 02:58:03.559 --> 02:58:08.719 is often caught in his own snare. The widow and 2558 02:58:08.879 --> 02:58:13.280 the sheep. There was a certain widow who had an 2559 02:58:13.319 --> 02:58:16.799 only sheep, and wishing to make the most of his wool, 2560 02:58:17.159 --> 02:58:20.479 she sheared him so closely that she cut his skin 2561 02:58:20.639 --> 02:58:25.399 as well as his fleece. The sheep, smarting under this treatment, 2562 02:58:25.680 --> 02:58:29.600 cried out, why do you torture me thus? What will 2563 02:58:29.639 --> 02:58:32.360 my blood add to the weight of the wool. If 2564 02:58:32.399 --> 02:58:36.079 you want my flesh name, send for the butcher, who 2565 02:58:36.079 --> 02:58:39.239 will put me out of my misery at once. But 2566 02:58:39.520 --> 02:58:42.920 if you want my fleece, send for the shearer who 2567 02:58:42.920 --> 02:58:47.920 will clip my wool without drawing my blood. Economy may 2568 02:58:47.959 --> 02:58:53.120 be carried too far. The man bitten by a dog. 2569 02:58:54.399 --> 02:58:56.520 A man who had been bitten by a dog was 2570 02:58:56.600 --> 02:58:59.959 going about, asking who could cure him. One that met 2571 02:59:00.200 --> 02:59:03.879 him said, sir, if you would be cured, take a 2572 02:59:03.879 --> 02:59:05.680 bit of bread and dip it in the blood of 2573 02:59:05.719 --> 02:59:08.479 the wound, and give it to the dog that bit you. 2574 02:59:09.159 --> 02:59:12.159 The man smiled and said, if I were to follow 2575 02:59:12.200 --> 02:59:15.319 your advice, I would be bitten by all the dogs 2576 02:59:15.360 --> 02:59:19.680 in the city. He who proclaims himself ready to buy 2577 02:59:19.760 --> 02:59:23.719 up his enemies will never want a supply of them. 2578 02:59:25.040 --> 02:59:29.639 The horse and the wolf. A wolf saw a horse 2579 02:59:29.760 --> 02:59:32.760 grazing in a field. Putting on a grave air, he 2580 02:59:32.799 --> 02:59:36.600 approached him and said, sir, you must be very ill. 2581 02:59:37.200 --> 02:59:40.600 I have some skill as a physician, and if you 2582 02:59:40.719 --> 02:59:43.879 will tell me where your ailment is, I shall be 2583 02:59:44.000 --> 02:59:47.719 glad to be of service. Said the horse. If you 2584 02:59:47.840 --> 02:59:50.840 will examine my foot, you will find what ails me. 2585 02:59:51.639 --> 02:59:55.440 But as the wily wolf approached him with a kick, 2586 02:59:55.680 --> 03:00:01.639 he sent him flying into the air. The goatherd and 2587 03:00:01.840 --> 03:00:05.440 the goats. It was a stormy day and the snow 2588 03:00:05.600 --> 03:00:09.399 was falling fast when a goatherd drove his goats, all 2589 03:00:09.399 --> 03:00:13.719 white with snow, into a desert cave for shelter. There 2590 03:00:13.840 --> 03:00:17.319 he found that a herd of wild goats, more numerous 2591 03:00:17.319 --> 03:00:23.639 and larger than his own, had already taken possession, so, 2592 03:00:24.000 --> 03:00:27.280 thinking to secure them all, he left his own goats 2593 03:00:27.319 --> 03:00:30.520 to take care of themselves, and through the branches which 2594 03:00:30.520 --> 03:00:33.280 he had brought for them, to the wildgoats to browse on. 2595 03:00:34.000 --> 03:00:36.920 But when the weather cleared up, he found his own 2596 03:00:36.959 --> 03:00:40.920 goats had perished from hunger, while the wildgoats were off 2597 03:00:40.959 --> 03:00:44.600 and away to the hills and woods. So the goatherd 2598 03:00:44.760 --> 03:00:48.479 returned a laughing stock to his neighbors, having failed to 2599 03:00:48.520 --> 03:00:53.680 gain the wildgoats, and having lost his own. Those who 2600 03:00:53.719 --> 03:00:56.239 neglect their old friends for the sake of new ones 2601 03:00:56.719 --> 03:01:01.680 are rightly served if they lose both. The goose with 2602 03:01:01.879 --> 03:01:06.319 the golden eggs a certain man had the good fortune 2603 03:01:06.319 --> 03:01:09.399 to possess a goose that laid a golden egg every day. 2604 03:01:10.159 --> 03:01:14.079 But dissatisfied with so slow an income, and thinking to 2605 03:01:14.120 --> 03:01:17.399 seize the whole treasure at once, he killed the goose, 2606 03:01:17.760 --> 03:01:21.399 and cutting her open, found her just what any other 2607 03:01:21.479 --> 03:01:28.719 goose would be much once more, and loses all. The 2608 03:01:28.879 --> 03:01:34.440 old woman and the wine jar. An old woman found 2609 03:01:34.479 --> 03:01:37.280 an empty jar which had lately been full of prime 2610 03:01:37.479 --> 03:01:41.239 old wine, and which still retained the fragrant smell of 2611 03:01:41.280 --> 03:01:45.600 its former contents. She greedily placed it several times to 2612 03:01:45.680 --> 03:01:49.879 her nose, and, drawing it backwards and forward, said, oh, 2613 03:01:50.239 --> 03:01:54.280 most delicious, How nice must the wine itself have been, 2614 03:01:54.719 --> 03:01:57.959 when it leaves behind in every vessel which contained it 2615 03:01:58.399 --> 03:02:03.399 so sweet a perfume. The memory of a good deed 2616 03:02:04.000 --> 03:02:12.719 lives the ass carrying salt. A certain huckster who kept 2617 03:02:12.719 --> 03:02:15.680 an ass, hearing that salt was to be had cheap 2618 03:02:15.719 --> 03:02:19.200 at the seaside drove his ass thither to buy some. 2619 03:02:20.040 --> 03:02:22.200 Having loaded the beast as much as he could bear, 2620 03:02:22.639 --> 03:02:26.120 he was driving him home when, as they were passing 2621 03:02:26.159 --> 03:02:29.559 a slippery ledge of rock, the ass fell into the 2622 03:02:29.600 --> 03:02:33.520 stream below, and the salt being melted, the ass was 2623 03:02:33.600 --> 03:02:36.959 relieved of his burden, and, having gained the bank with ease, 2624 03:02:37.200 --> 03:02:40.959 pursued his journey onward. Light in body and in spirit. 2625 03:02:42.159 --> 03:02:45.639 The huckster soon afterwards set off for the seashore for 2626 03:02:45.719 --> 03:02:49.479 some more salt, and loaded the ass, if possible, yet 2627 03:02:49.600 --> 03:02:53.760 more heavily than before. On their return, as they crossed 2628 03:02:53.760 --> 03:02:57.520 the stream into which he had formerly fallen, the ass 2629 03:02:57.559 --> 03:03:01.319 fell down on purpose, and by dissolving the salt, was 2630 03:03:01.319 --> 03:03:05.920 again released from his load. The master, provoked at the loss, 2631 03:03:06.360 --> 03:03:09.040 and thinking how he might cure him of this trick, 2632 03:03:09.680 --> 03:03:12.719 on his next journey to the coast, freighted the beast 2633 03:03:12.799 --> 03:03:16.239 with a load of sponges. When they arrived at the 2634 03:03:16.280 --> 03:03:20.079 same stream as before, the ass was at his old 2635 03:03:20.120 --> 03:03:24.040 tricks again and rolled himself into the water. But he 2636 03:03:24.120 --> 03:03:28.360 found to his cost, as he proceeded homeward, that instead 2637 03:03:28.399 --> 03:03:32.200 of lightening his burden, he had more than doubled its weight. 2638 03:03:33.600 --> 03:03:39.879 The same measures will not suit all circumstances. The gnat 2639 03:03:39.959 --> 03:03:44.000 and the bull. A gnat that had been buzzing about 2640 03:03:44.000 --> 03:03:47.559 the head of a bull at length, settling himself down 2641 03:03:47.639 --> 03:03:52.120 upon his horn, begged his pardon for incommoding him. But 2642 03:03:52.360 --> 03:03:56.799 if says he my weight at all inconveniences you pray, 2643 03:03:56.959 --> 03:04:00.760 say so, and I will be off in a moment. Oh, 2644 03:04:00.840 --> 03:04:04.319 never trouble your head about, that, says the bull, For 2645 03:04:04.479 --> 03:04:07.520 tis all one to me, whether you go or stay. 2646 03:04:08.120 --> 03:04:10.440 And to say the truth, I did not know you 2647 03:04:10.520 --> 03:04:15.479 were there. The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit. 2648 03:04:17.639 --> 03:04:22.719 The lion and the gnat. As a gnat was buzzing 2649 03:04:22.760 --> 03:04:26.159 around a lion, the lion said to him, how dare 2650 03:04:26.200 --> 03:04:29.239 you approach me near? Be off, or I will kill 2651 03:04:29.280 --> 03:04:32.559 you with the least stroke of my paw. The gnat, 2652 03:04:33.000 --> 03:04:36.479 knowing the advantage of his small size and his alertness, 2653 03:04:36.959 --> 03:04:41.360 immediately challenged the boaster to combat, and, alighting first upon 2654 03:04:41.399 --> 03:04:44.799 his nose and then upon his tail, made the lion 2655 03:04:45.000 --> 03:04:48.680 so furious that he injured himself grievously with his paws. 2656 03:04:49.559 --> 03:04:52.719 As the gnat flew away, he boasted of his own 2657 03:04:52.840 --> 03:04:56.239 prowess in thus defeating the king of beasts without the 2658 03:04:56.280 --> 03:05:01.319 slightest injury to himself, but in his case airlessness. He 2659 03:05:01.399 --> 03:05:06.000 flew directly into a spider's web, and the spider instantly 2660 03:05:06.079 --> 03:05:12.239 seized and killed him. The lion, the ass, and the 2661 03:05:12.280 --> 03:05:18.079 fox hunting. The lion, the ass, and the fox formed 2662 03:05:18.079 --> 03:05:21.479 a party to go out hunting. They took a large booty, 2663 03:05:21.959 --> 03:05:25.319 and when the sport was ended, bethought themselves of having 2664 03:05:25.360 --> 03:05:29.680 a hearty meal. The lion bade the ass allot to spoil, 2665 03:05:30.280 --> 03:05:33.520 so dividing it into three equal parts. The ass begged 2666 03:05:33.520 --> 03:05:36.479 his friends to make their choice, at which the lion, 2667 03:05:36.600 --> 03:05:40.680 in great indignation, fell upon the ass and tore him 2668 03:05:40.879 --> 03:05:45.799 to pieces. He then bade the fox make a division, who, 2669 03:05:46.079 --> 03:05:50.120 gathering the hole into one great heap, reserved but the 2670 03:05:50.399 --> 03:05:56.040 smallest mite for himself. Ah, friend, says the lion, who 2671 03:05:56.159 --> 03:06:00.399 taught you to make so equitable a division? I wanted 2672 03:06:00.559 --> 03:06:03.840 no other lesson, replied the fox, than the Ass's fate 2673 03:06:05.360 --> 03:06:08.840 better be wise by misfortunes of others than by your own. 2674 03:06:10.440 --> 03:06:15.239 The dog whose ears were cropped a dog complained of 2675 03:06:15.319 --> 03:06:18.159 the cruelty of her master in cutting off her ears, 2676 03:06:18.680 --> 03:06:22.159 and was so ashamed of her appearance that she resolved 2677 03:06:22.239 --> 03:06:25.440 to stay in her kennel with her family. A friendly 2678 03:06:25.520 --> 03:06:28.680 hunting dog said to her, if you had been peaceful 2679 03:06:28.760 --> 03:06:32.239 and not always fighting, you would have saved your ears 2680 03:06:32.280 --> 03:06:35.799 and your good looks. If you will fight, it is 2681 03:06:35.879 --> 03:06:38.559 a kindness to crop your ears that they may not 2682 03:06:38.639 --> 03:06:43.879 give your enemy the advantage. The wind and the sun 2683 03:06:45.600 --> 03:06:48.680 a dispute once arose between the wind and the sun, 2684 03:06:48.959 --> 03:06:52.200 which was the stronger of the two, and they agreed 2685 03:06:52.399 --> 03:06:55.959 to settle the point upon this issue that whichever of 2686 03:06:55.959 --> 03:06:58.920 the two soonest made a traveler take off his cloak 2687 03:06:59.239 --> 03:07:03.159 should be au did the more powerful. The wind began 2688 03:07:03.360 --> 03:07:06.000 and blew with all his might and main a blast, 2689 03:07:06.239 --> 03:07:10.239 cold and fierce as a Thracian storm. But the stronger 2690 03:07:10.280 --> 03:07:14.000 he blew, the closer the traveler wrapped his cloak around him, 2691 03:07:14.360 --> 03:07:18.040 and the tighter he grasped it with his hands, then 2692 03:07:18.200 --> 03:07:22.360 broke out the sun with his welcome beams. He dispersed 2693 03:07:22.440 --> 03:07:26.559 the vapor and the cold. The traveler felt the genial warmth, 2694 03:07:27.000 --> 03:07:30.360 and as the sun shone brighter and brighter, he sat down, 2695 03:07:30.520 --> 03:07:33.840 quite overcome with the heat, and taking off his cloak, 2696 03:07:34.280 --> 03:07:38.959 cast it on the ground. Thus the sun was declared 2697 03:07:39.040 --> 03:07:43.440 the conquerer. And it has ever been deemed that persuasion 2698 03:07:43.559 --> 03:07:46.719 is better than force, and that the sunshine of a 2699 03:07:46.840 --> 03:07:50.159 kind and gentle manner will sooner lay open a poor 2700 03:07:50.200 --> 03:07:54.840 man's heart than all the threatenings and force of blustering authority. 2701 03:07:56.639 --> 03:08:01.559 The wild Boar and the Fox. A wild boar was 2702 03:08:01.680 --> 03:08:05.120 wetting his tusks against a tree, when a fox coming 2703 03:08:05.159 --> 03:08:08.760 by asked why he did so, For said he, I 2704 03:08:08.840 --> 03:08:11.719 see no reason for it. There is neither hunter nor 2705 03:08:11.799 --> 03:08:15.040 hound in sight, nor any other danger that I can 2706 03:08:15.120 --> 03:08:19.319 see at hand. True, replied the boar. But when that 2707 03:08:19.479 --> 03:08:22.840 danger does arise, I shall have something else to do 2708 03:08:23.040 --> 03:08:26.760 than to sharpen my weapons. It is too late to 2709 03:08:26.799 --> 03:08:29.559 wet the sword when the trumpet sounds, to dry it. 2710 03:08:32.200 --> 03:08:36.879 End of Section eleven. The Hunter and the Wolf. A 2711 03:08:37.040 --> 03:08:40.959 greedy hunter one day shot a fine deer, and ere 2712 03:08:41.079 --> 03:08:44.079 he could dress it. A pretty fawn came that way, 2713 03:08:44.639 --> 03:08:47.760 and an arrow brought it to the ground. A boar 2714 03:08:47.879 --> 03:08:51.200 now chanced to be passing, and the hunter wounded it 2715 03:08:51.479 --> 03:08:53.600 so that it lay upon the ground as if dead. 2716 03:08:54.639 --> 03:08:58.639 Not satisfied with this game, he must needs pursue a 2717 03:08:58.680 --> 03:09:02.440 partridge that came flowing near, and while he was doing so, 2718 03:09:02.639 --> 03:09:06.040 the wounded boar regained enough strength to spring upon him 2719 03:09:06.120 --> 03:09:09.639 and kill him. A wolf came that way, in seeing 2720 03:09:09.680 --> 03:09:14.239 the four dead bodies, said, here is food for a month. 2721 03:09:14.760 --> 03:09:17.079 But I will save the best and be content to 2722 03:09:17.200 --> 03:09:21.000 day with the bowstring. But when he sees the string, 2723 03:09:21.520 --> 03:09:26.280 it loosened the fixed arrow, which shot him through the heart. 2724 03:09:26.680 --> 03:09:30.799 The greedy man and the miser cannot enjoy their gains. 2725 03:09:32.760 --> 03:09:37.520 The astronomer. An astronomer used to walk out every night 2726 03:09:37.680 --> 03:09:41.200 to gaze upon the stars. It happened one night that, 2727 03:09:41.399 --> 03:09:44.680 with his whole thoughts wrapped up in the skies, he 2728 03:09:44.760 --> 03:09:48.879 fell into a well. One who heard his cries ran 2729 03:09:48.959 --> 03:09:51.840 up to him and said, while you were trying to 2730 03:09:51.879 --> 03:09:55.639 pry into the mysteries of heaven, you overlook the common 2731 03:09:55.680 --> 03:10:00.000 objects under your feet. We should never look so high 2732 03:10:00.280 --> 03:10:03.600 is to miss seeing the things that are around us. 2733 03:10:04.680 --> 03:10:09.280 The Bull and the frogs Two bulls lived in the 2734 03:10:09.319 --> 03:10:12.520 same herd, and each aspiring to be the leader and master, 2735 03:10:13.200 --> 03:10:18.000 they finally engaged in a fierce battle. An old frog, 2736 03:10:18.079 --> 03:10:21.200 who sat on the bank of a stream nearby, began 2737 03:10:21.280 --> 03:10:24.920 to groan and to quake with fear. A thoughtless young 2738 03:10:24.959 --> 03:10:28.479 frog said to the old one, why need you be afraid? 2739 03:10:29.159 --> 03:10:32.120 What is it to you that the bulls fight for supremacy? 2740 03:10:33.159 --> 03:10:37.040 Do you not see, said the old frog, that one 2741 03:10:37.200 --> 03:10:41.120 must defeat the other, and that the defeated bull, being 2742 03:10:41.239 --> 03:10:44.120 driven from the field, will be forced to stay in 2743 03:10:44.159 --> 03:10:49.040 the marshes, and will thus trample us to death. The 2744 03:10:49.120 --> 03:10:51.719 poor and weak are often made to suffer for the 2745 03:10:51.760 --> 03:10:59.920 follies of the great. The thief and his mother a schoolboy, 2746 03:11:00.120 --> 03:11:02.799 he stole a horn book from one of his schoolfellows 2747 03:11:02.840 --> 03:11:06.559 and brought it home to his mother. Instead of chastising him, 2748 03:11:06.959 --> 03:11:10.399 she rather encouraged him in the deed. In course of time, 2749 03:11:10.520 --> 03:11:14.040 the boy, now grown into a man, began to steal 2750 03:11:14.120 --> 03:11:17.959 things of greater value, until at last, being caught in 2751 03:11:18.040 --> 03:11:20.840 the very act, he was brought to the judge and 2752 03:11:20.959 --> 03:11:24.079 sentenced to be hung. As he was being led to 2753 03:11:24.159 --> 03:11:27.959 the scaffold, the mother bowed herself to the ground with grief. 2754 03:11:28.959 --> 03:11:31.959 A neighbor seeing her, thus said to her, it is 2755 03:11:32.040 --> 03:11:35.520 too late for you to moan and sob Now. If 2756 03:11:35.559 --> 03:11:38.399 you had been as much grieved when he committed his 2757 03:11:38.520 --> 03:11:42.200 first theft, you would have corrected him in time, and 2758 03:11:42.319 --> 03:11:47.920 thus have saved yourself this sorrowful day, nip evil in 2759 03:11:48.120 --> 03:11:54.920 the bud. The man and his two wives. In days 2760 03:11:55.000 --> 03:11:58.079 when a man was allowed more wives than one, a 2761 03:11:58.120 --> 03:12:01.840 middle aged bachelor who could be called neither young nor old, 2762 03:12:02.440 --> 03:12:05.680 and whose hair was only just beginning to turn gray, 2763 03:12:06.319 --> 03:12:09.200 must needs fall in love with two women at once 2764 03:12:09.280 --> 03:12:12.680 and marry them both. The one was young and blooming, 2765 03:12:13.079 --> 03:12:16.079 and wished her husband to appear as useful as herself. 2766 03:12:16.639 --> 03:12:19.920 The other was somewhat more advanced in age, and as 2767 03:12:20.040 --> 03:12:23.879 anxious that her husband should appear a suitable match for her. So, 2768 03:12:24.559 --> 03:12:27.959 while the young one seized every opportunity of pulling out 2769 03:12:28.000 --> 03:12:31.319 the good man's gray hairs, the old one was as 2770 03:12:31.399 --> 03:12:34.639 industrious in plucking out every black hair she could find, 2771 03:12:35.200 --> 03:12:37.799 till he found that between the one and the other, 2772 03:12:38.440 --> 03:12:43.440 he had not a hair left. He that submits his 2773 03:12:43.559 --> 03:12:48.120 principles to the influence and caprices of opposite parties will 2774 03:12:48.239 --> 03:12:54.360 end in having no principles at all. The heifer, the goat, 2775 03:12:54.440 --> 03:12:59.159 the sheep, and the lion. A heifer, a goat, a sheep, 2776 03:12:59.200 --> 03:13:02.959 and a lion formed a partnership and agreed to divide 2777 03:13:02.959 --> 03:13:07.200 their earnings. The goat, having snared a stag. They sent 2778 03:13:07.280 --> 03:13:10.559 for the lion to divide it for them. The lion said, 2779 03:13:11.159 --> 03:13:14.319 I will make four parts. The first shall be mine 2780 03:13:14.399 --> 03:13:18.959 as judge, the second because I am strongest, the third 2781 03:13:19.040 --> 03:13:22.799 because I am bravest, And the fourth I will kill 2782 03:13:22.920 --> 03:13:27.479 anyone who dares touch it. He who steals a part 2783 03:13:27.959 --> 03:13:35.040 will steal the hole. The camel and the travelers. Two 2784 03:13:35.079 --> 03:13:37.879 travelers on a desert saw a camel in the distance 2785 03:13:38.399 --> 03:13:42.319 and were greatly frightened at his huge appearance, thinking it 2786 03:13:42.399 --> 03:13:45.799 to be some huge monster. While they hid behind some 2787 03:13:45.959 --> 03:13:49.920 low shrubs, the animal came nearer, and they discovered it 2788 03:13:49.959 --> 03:13:54.520 was only a harmless camel, which had excited their fears. 2789 03:13:54.760 --> 03:14:02.959 Distance exaggerates dangers. The swan and the goose. A certain 2790 03:14:03.040 --> 03:14:06.200 rich man bought in the market a goose and a swan. 2791 03:14:06.959 --> 03:14:09.959 He fed the one for his table and kept the 2792 03:14:10.000 --> 03:14:13.159 other for the sake of its song. When the time 2793 03:14:13.239 --> 03:14:16.120 came for killing the goose, the cook went to take 2794 03:14:16.200 --> 03:14:18.719 him at night when it was dark, and he was 2795 03:14:18.760 --> 03:14:21.719 not able to distinguish one bird from the other, and 2796 03:14:21.840 --> 03:14:25.520 he caught the swan instead of the goose. The swan, 2797 03:14:25.840 --> 03:14:29.440 threatened with death, burst forth into song, and thus made 2798 03:14:29.520 --> 03:14:33.200 himself known by his voice, and preserved his life by 2799 03:14:33.239 --> 03:14:38.280 his melody. Sweet words may deliver us from peril when 2800 03:14:38.319 --> 03:14:45.319 harsh words would fail. The dolphins and the sprat. The 2801 03:14:45.479 --> 03:14:48.159 dolphins and the whales were at war with one another, 2802 03:14:48.600 --> 03:14:51.760 and the sprat stepped in and endeavored to separate them. 2803 03:14:52.319 --> 03:14:55.319 But one of the dolphins cried out, we would rather 2804 03:14:55.440 --> 03:15:00.799 perish in the contest than be reconciled by you. The 2805 03:15:01.000 --> 03:15:06.040 shepherd and the sea. A shepherd moved down his flock 2806 03:15:06.120 --> 03:15:09.600 to feed near the shore, and beholding the sea lying 2807 03:15:09.680 --> 03:15:13.000 in a smooth calm, he was seized with a strong 2808 03:15:13.120 --> 03:15:16.280 desire to sail over it. So he sold all his 2809 03:15:16.360 --> 03:15:19.639 sheep and bought a cargo of dates, and loaded a 2810 03:15:19.719 --> 03:15:22.879 vessel and set sail. He had not gone far when 2811 03:15:22.879 --> 03:15:26.799 a storm arose. His ship was wrecked, and his dates 2812 03:15:26.799 --> 03:15:31.520 and everything lost, and he himself, with difficulty, escaped to land. 2813 03:15:32.440 --> 03:15:35.600 Not long after, when the sea was again calm, and 2814 03:15:35.719 --> 03:15:37.920 one of his friends came up to him and was 2815 03:15:37.959 --> 03:15:42.000 admiring its repose. He said, have a care, my good fellow, 2816 03:15:42.440 --> 03:15:46.079 of that smooth surface. It is only looking out for 2817 03:15:46.159 --> 03:15:52.719 your dates. The bees, the drones, and the wasp. Some 2818 03:15:52.879 --> 03:15:55.200 bees had built their comb in the hollow trunk of 2819 03:15:55.239 --> 03:15:58.680 an oak. The drones asserted that it was their doing 2820 03:15:58.760 --> 03:16:02.079 and belonged to them. The cause was brought into court 2821 03:16:02.159 --> 03:16:06.600 before Judge Wasp. Knowing something of the parties, he thus 2822 03:16:06.600 --> 03:16:10.799 addressed them, the plaintiffs and defendants are so much alike 2823 03:16:10.840 --> 03:16:13.799 in shape and color as to render the ownership a 2824 03:16:13.840 --> 03:16:17.680 doubtful matter. Let each party take a hive to itself 2825 03:16:18.079 --> 03:16:20.799 and build up a new comb that, from the shape 2826 03:16:20.799 --> 03:16:23.079 of the cells and the taste of the honey, the 2827 03:16:23.200 --> 03:16:27.840 lawful proprietors of the property in dispute may appear. The 2828 03:16:27.879 --> 03:16:32.440 bees readily assented to the Wasp's plan. The drones declined it, 2829 03:16:32.959 --> 03:16:36.879 whereupon the Wasp gave judgment. It is clear now who 2830 03:16:36.959 --> 03:16:40.040 made the comb and who cannot make it. The court 2831 03:16:40.280 --> 03:16:45.200 adjudges the honey to the bees. Professions are best tested 2832 03:16:45.239 --> 03:16:52.559 by deeds. The wolf, the goat, and the kid. As 2833 03:16:52.600 --> 03:16:56.360 an old goat was going forth to pasture, she carefully 2834 03:16:56.440 --> 03:16:59.360 latched her to her and bid her kid not to 2835 03:16:59.479 --> 03:17:02.799 open it to anyone who could not give this password. 2836 03:17:03.440 --> 03:17:07.399 Beware of the wolf and all his race. A wolf 2837 03:17:07.520 --> 03:17:10.479 happened to be passing and overheard what the old goat said. 2838 03:17:11.200 --> 03:17:14.639 When she was gone, he went to the door, and, knocking, said, 2839 03:17:15.319 --> 03:17:19.079 beware of the wolf and all his race. But the kid, 2840 03:17:19.159 --> 03:17:22.799 peering through a crack, said, show me a white paw, 2841 03:17:22.920 --> 03:17:26.000 and I will open the door. As the wolf could 2842 03:17:26.000 --> 03:17:29.239 not do this, he had to depart no better than 2843 03:17:29.280 --> 03:17:36.600 he came. Two sureties are better than one, the fox 2844 03:17:36.879 --> 03:17:41.479 and the hedgehog. A fox, while crossing over a river, 2845 03:17:42.120 --> 03:17:44.799 was driven by the stream into a narrow gorge, and 2846 03:17:44.879 --> 03:17:47.680 lay there for a long time, unable to get out, 2847 03:17:48.120 --> 03:17:51.680 covered with myriads of horse flies that had fastened themselves 2848 03:17:51.719 --> 03:17:55.360 upon him. A hedgehog, who was wandering in that direction, 2849 03:17:55.559 --> 03:17:59.360 saw him, and, taking compassion on him, asked him if 2850 03:17:59.360 --> 03:18:02.479 he should drive away the flies that were so tormenting him. 2851 03:18:03.079 --> 03:18:06.399 But the fox begged him to do nothing of the sort. 2852 03:18:07.040 --> 03:18:11.959 Why not, asked the hedgehog, Because, replied the fox, these 2853 03:18:12.000 --> 03:18:15.799 flies that are upon me now are already full and 2854 03:18:15.920 --> 03:18:19.319 draw but little blood. But should you remove them, a 2855 03:18:19.440 --> 03:18:22.840 swarm of fresh and hungry ones will come, who will 2856 03:18:22.840 --> 03:18:27.040 not leave a drop of blood in my body. When 2857 03:18:27.079 --> 03:18:30.520 we throw off rulers are dependents who have already made 2858 03:18:30.559 --> 03:18:33.479 the most of us. We do but for the most 2859 03:18:33.479 --> 03:18:37.280 part lay ourselves open to others who will make us 2860 03:18:37.399 --> 03:18:43.760 bleed yet more freely. The brazier and his dog. A 2861 03:18:43.840 --> 03:18:46.799 brazier had a little dog, which was a great favorite 2862 03:18:46.799 --> 03:18:51.200 of his master and his constant companion. While he hammered 2863 03:18:51.200 --> 03:18:54.399 away at his metals, the dog slept. But when, on 2864 03:18:54.440 --> 03:18:56.959 the other hand, he went to dinner and began to eat, 2865 03:18:57.399 --> 03:19:00.239 the dog woke up and wagged his tail, as if 2866 03:19:00.280 --> 03:19:03.479 he would ask for a share of his meal. His 2867 03:19:03.639 --> 03:19:06.760 master one day pretended to be angry, and, shaking his 2868 03:19:06.840 --> 03:19:10.479 stick at him, said, you wretch, a little sluggard. What 2869 03:19:10.600 --> 03:19:13.440 shall I do to you? While I am hammering on 2870 03:19:13.479 --> 03:19:16.760 the anvil, you sleep on the mat, And when I 2871 03:19:16.840 --> 03:19:19.760 begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and 2872 03:19:19.879 --> 03:19:23.200 wag your tail for food. Do you not know that 2873 03:19:23.360 --> 03:19:26.719 labor is the source of every blessing, and that none 2874 03:19:26.760 --> 03:19:32.200 but those who work are entitled to eat. The wild 2875 03:19:32.319 --> 03:19:36.639 ass and the Lion. A wild ass and a lion 2876 03:19:36.799 --> 03:19:39.559 entered into an alliance that they might capture the beasts 2877 03:19:39.559 --> 03:19:42.840 of the forest with the greater ease. The lion agreed 2878 03:19:42.920 --> 03:19:46.040 to assist the wild ass with strength, while the wild 2879 03:19:46.120 --> 03:19:49.360 ass gave the lion the benefit of his greater speed. 2880 03:19:50.200 --> 03:19:53.639 When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, 2881 03:19:54.120 --> 03:19:57.600 the lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this 2882 03:19:57.719 --> 03:20:01.600 purpose he divided it into three shares. I will take 2883 03:20:01.639 --> 03:20:05.440 the first share, he said, because I am king, and 2884 03:20:05.479 --> 03:20:08.399 the second share as a partner with you in the chase. 2885 03:20:09.159 --> 03:20:12.280 And the third share, believe me, will be a source 2886 03:20:12.319 --> 03:20:16.000 of great evil to you unless you willingly resign it 2887 03:20:16.040 --> 03:20:20.280 to me and set off as fast as you can 2888 03:20:21.879 --> 03:20:29.520 might makes right. The father and his two daughters. A 2889 03:20:29.639 --> 03:20:32.479 man had two daughters, the one married to a gardener 2890 03:20:32.719 --> 03:20:35.600 and the other to a tile maker. After a while, 2891 03:20:35.639 --> 03:20:37.360 he went to the daughter who was married to the 2892 03:20:37.399 --> 03:20:41.319 gardener and inquired how she was and how all things 2893 03:20:41.399 --> 03:20:45.479 went with her. She said, all things are prospering with me, 2894 03:20:46.040 --> 03:20:48.920 and I have only one wish that there may be 2895 03:20:49.040 --> 03:20:52.120 a heavy fall of rain in order that the plants 2896 03:20:52.159 --> 03:20:55.319 may be well watered. Not long after, he went to 2897 03:20:55.360 --> 03:20:58.799 the daughter who had married the tile maker, and likewise 2898 03:20:58.920 --> 03:21:03.079 inquired of her how she fared. She replied, I want 2899 03:21:03.079 --> 03:21:06.440 for nothing, and only have one wish that the dry 2900 03:21:06.559 --> 03:21:10.000 weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, 2901 03:21:10.520 --> 03:21:14.040 so that the bricks might be dried. He said to her, 2902 03:21:14.680 --> 03:21:18.239 if your sister wishes for rain and you for dry weather, 2903 03:21:18.879 --> 03:21:21.799 with which of the two am I to join my wishes? 2904 03:21:24.040 --> 03:21:28.319 The fir tree and the bramble. A fir tree said 2905 03:21:28.440 --> 03:21:32.639 boastingly to the bramble, you are useful for nothing at all, 2906 03:21:33.079 --> 03:21:37.600 while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses. The 2907 03:21:37.639 --> 03:21:41.799 bramble made answer, you, poor creature, if you would only 2908 03:21:41.920 --> 03:21:45.360 call to mind the axes and saws which are about 2909 03:21:45.399 --> 03:21:48.520 to hew you down, you would have reason to wish 2910 03:21:48.559 --> 03:21:50.879 that you had grown up a bramble and not a 2911 03:21:50.920 --> 03:21:58.479 fir tree. Better poverty without care than riches. With the 2912 03:21:58.639 --> 03:22:02.840 farmer and his sons. A farmer, being on the point 2913 03:22:02.840 --> 03:22:06.120 of death, wished to ensure from his sons the same 2914 03:22:06.159 --> 03:22:09.159 attention to his form as he himself had given it. 2915 03:22:09.760 --> 03:22:13.040 He called them to his bedside and said, my sons, 2916 03:22:13.680 --> 03:22:16.959 there was a great treasure hid in one of my vineyards. 2917 03:22:17.680 --> 03:22:21.200 The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks, 2918 03:22:21.239 --> 03:22:25.319 and carefully dug over every portion of their land. They 2919 03:22:25.360 --> 03:22:29.079 found no treasure, but the vines repaid their labor by 2920 03:22:29.120 --> 03:22:35.440 an extraordinary and superabundant crop. The cat and the birds 2921 03:22:36.559 --> 03:22:39.479 a cat, hearing that the birds in a certain aviary 2922 03:22:39.559 --> 03:22:44.079 were ailing, dressed himself up as a physician, and taking 2923 03:22:44.159 --> 03:22:47.479 with him his cane and the instruments becoming his profession, 2924 03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:52.120 went to the aviary, knocked at the door, and inquired 2925 03:22:52.159 --> 03:22:55.040 of the inmates how they all did, saying that if 2926 03:22:55.040 --> 03:22:57.760 they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for 2927 03:22:57.840 --> 03:23:02.719 them and cure them. Replied, we are all very well 2928 03:23:02.760 --> 03:23:06.159 and shall continue so if you will only be good 2929 03:23:06.239 --> 03:23:08.959 enough to go away and leave us as we are. 2930 03:23:11.159 --> 03:23:16.120 The stag, the Wolf and the sheep. A stag asked 2931 03:23:16.120 --> 03:23:18.600 a sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and 2932 03:23:18.719 --> 03:23:22.040 said that the wolf would be his surety. The sheep, 2933 03:23:22.200 --> 03:23:27.639 fearing some fraud was intended, excused herself, saying, the wolf 2934 03:23:27.840 --> 03:23:31.040 is accustomed to seize what he wants and to run off, 2935 03:23:31.399 --> 03:23:34.479 And you too can quickly outstrip me in your rapid flight. 2936 03:23:35.360 --> 03:23:37.879 How then shall I be able to find you when 2937 03:23:37.879 --> 03:23:42.399 the day of payment comes. Two blacks do not make 2938 03:23:42.639 --> 03:23:47.159 one white. End of Section twelve