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CHILDREN'S BOOK COLLECTION LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES THE BANBURY CROSS SERIES PREPARED FOR CHILDREN BY GRACE RHYS JESOP'S FABLES 1LLV3TRHTED BY KOB1W5ON* ' * BT' * To , this is ^Esop's And When Then Enid. the cover is house, the door ; the rains of winter pour, the Lion and the Mouse, And the Frogs that asked a king, And all That Open the Beasts with curious features, talk just like us it, and ask you human in creatures, ! G. R. CONCEITED A enough jackdaw was vain wanted to imagine that he nothing but the coloured plumes to make as beautiful a bird as the Peacock. him Puffed up with this wise conceit, he dressed himself with a quantity of their finest feathers, and in this borrowed garb, leaving his old companions, tried to pass for a peacock; tempted birds, to than the sham. but he no sooner stray with these an affected The strut at- splendid betrayed offended peacocks fell upon him with their beaks, and soon Having stripped him of his finery. turned him again into a mere jackdaw, they drove him back to his brethren, But they, remembering what airs he had once given himself, would not permit him to flock with them again, and treated him with well-deserved contempt. A DISPUTE once arose between the Sun and the Wind, which was the stronger of the two, and to count soonest this as made a they agreed proof, that whichever traveller take off his cloak, should be held the most powerful. The wind began, and blew with all his blast, cold and fierce might and main a as a winter storm but the stronger he blew, the closer the traveller wrapped ; his cloak about him, grasped it with out the sun and the tighter he Then broke his hands. with his welcome beams : he chased away the vapour and the cold the traveller felt and sun as the ; the pleasant warmth, shone brighter and brighter, he sat down, overcome by the heat, and cast aside the cloak that all the blustering rage of the wind could not compel him to lay down. "Learn from this," said the sun to the wind, " that soft and means will often gentle bring about, what force and fury never DOG made his bed in a manger, and A lay snarling and growling to the horses from their provender. keep See," one of them, "what a miserable said cur " ! who neither can eat corn himself, nor will allow those to eat it who can." WOODMAN A was felling a tree on the bank of a river; and by chance let his axe slip from his hand, which dropped mediately into the water and im- sank to the bottom. therefore in great distress, he sat by the his down and bewailed Upo