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XCIV. THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM

XCV. THE FOX AND THE SICK LION

XCVI. THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE GEESE

XCVII. THE ONE-EYED DOE

XCVIII. THE FOX, THE RAVEN, AND THE DOVE

XCIX. THE TWO POTS

C. THE TWO FROGS

CI. THE FOX AND THE MASK

CII. THE CAT, THE COCK, AND THE YOUNG MOUSE

CIII. THE MICE AND THE TRAP

CIV. THE CHAMELEON

CV. THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE ASS

CVI. THE BOY AND THE BUTTERFLY

CVII. THE CROW AND THE PITCHER

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

1. THE FROG AND THE OX (_Frontispiece_)

2. THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL

3. THE FIGHTING COCK AND EAGLE

4. THE VINE AND THE GOAT

5. THE LION WOUNDED

6. THE WOLF AND THE LAMB

7. THE CHARGER AND THE ASS

8. THE FOX AND THE CROW

9. THE DOG AND THE SHADOW

10. THE FAWN AND HER MOTHER

11. THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE

12. THE KID AND THE WOLF

13. THE LEOPARD AND THE FOX

14. THE JACKDAW AND THE EAGLE

15. THE DOG AND THE WOLF

16. THE STAG AT THE POOL

17. THE FOX AND THE GRAPES

18. THE LION AND THE MOUSE

19. THE DOG IN THE MANGER

20. THE WOLF AND THE GOAT

21. THE HORSE AND THE WOLF

22. THE COCK AND THE JEWEL

23. THE ONE-EYED DOE

24. THE FOX AND THE MASK

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FAVOURITE FABLES.

FABLE I.

THE FOX AND THE GOAT.

[Illustration]

In the extreme end of a village a Fox one day went to have a peep
at a hen-roost. He had the bad luck to fall into a well, where he
swam first to this side, and then to that side, but could not get
out with all his pains. At last, as chance would have it, a poor
Goat came to the same place to seek for some drink. "So ho!
friend Fox," said he, "you quaff it off there at a great rate: I
hope by this time you have quenched your thirst." "Thirst!" said
the sly rogue; "what I have found here to drink is so clear, and
so sweet, that I cannot take my fill of it; do, pray, come down,
my dear, and have a taste of it." With that, in plumped the Goat
as he bade him; but as soon as he was down, the Fox jumped on his
horns, and leaped out of the well in a trice; and as he went off,
"Good bye, my wise friend," said he; "if you had as much brains
as you have beard, I should have been in the well still, and you
might have stood on the brink of it to laugh at me, as I now do
at you."

MORAL.