Aesop’s Fables(伊索寓言).pdf

Aesops Fables Aesops Fables 1 Aesops Fables The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw. Ho! ho! quoth he, thats for me, and soon rooted it out from beneath the straw. What did it turn out to be but a Pearl that by some chance had been lost in the yard? You may be a treasure, quoth Master Cock, to men that prize you, but for me I would rather have a single barley-corn than a peck of pearls. Precious things are for those that can prize them. 2 Aesops Fables The Wolf and the Lamb Once upon a time a Wolf was lapping at a spring on a hillside, when, looking up, what should he see but a Lamb just beginning to drink a little lower down. Theres my supper, thought he, if only I can find some excuse to seize it. Then he called out to the Lamb, How dare you muddle the water from which I am drinking? Nay, master, nay, said Lambikin; if the water be muddy up there, I cannot be the cause of it, for it runs down from you to me. Well, then, said the Wolf, why did you call me bad names this time last year? That cannot be, said the Lamb; I am only six months old. I dont care, snarled the Wolf; if it was not you it was your father; and with that he rushed upon the poor little Lamb and .WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA WARRA .ate her all up. But before she died she gasped out .Any excuse will serve a tyrant. 3 Aesops Fables The Dog and the Shadow It happened that