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CHILDREN'S BOOK COLLECTION LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
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BANBURY
CROSS SERIES
PREPARED FOR CHILDREN BY GRACE RHYS
JESOP'S
FABLES
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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