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| About Aesop's Fables |
Here you will be able to read a lot of Aesop's Fables. I will personally type them but I will not copy and paste them on to this site.
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| The Ant and the Chrysalis &
The Ant and the Dove |
An Ant nimbly running about in
the sunshine in search of food came across a Chrysalis that was very
near its time of change. The Chrysalis moved its tail, and thus
attracted the attention of the Ant, who then saw for the first time
that it was alive. "Poor, pitiable animal!" cried the Ant disdainfully.
"What a sad fate is yours! While I can run hither and thither, at my
pleasure, and, if I wish, ascend the tallest tree, you lie imprisoned
here in your scaly tail." The Chrysalis heard all this, but did not try
to make any reply. A few days after, when the Ant passed that way
again, nothing but the shell remained. Wondering what had become of its
contents, he felt himself suddenly shaded and fanned by the gorgeous
wings of a beautiful Butterfly. "Behold in me," said the Butterfly,
"your muck-pitied friend! Boast now of your powers to run and climb as
long as you can get me to listen." So saying, the Butterfly rose in the
air, and, borne along and aloft on the summer breeze, was soon lost to
the sight of the Ant forever.
Moral: Appearances are deceptive
An
Ant went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried
away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. A Dove
sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall
into the stream close to her. The Ant climbed onto it and floated in
safety to the bank. Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood
under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the
branches. The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him
in the foot. In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the
noise made the Dove take wing.
Moral: One good turn deserves another
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