Aesop's Fables, Volume 01 (Fables 1-25)-Aesop

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1:05Aesop's Fables a new translation by V. S. Vernon Jones with an introduction by G. K. Chesterton 1912 edition introduction Aesop embodies an epigram not uncommon in human history his fame is all the more deserved because he never deserved it The firm foundations of common sense the shrewd shot set uncommon sense the characterise all his fables Belong not to him but to humanity in the earliest human history Whatever is authentic is universal and whatever is universal is anonymous in such cases There is always some central man who had first the trouble of collecting them and afterwards the fame of creating them He had the fame and on the whole he earned the fame There must be something great and human something of the human future and the human past in such a man Even if he only used it to rob the past or deceive the future

2:09The story of Arthur may have been really connected with the most fighting Christianity of falling Rome or with the most heathen traditions in the hills of Wales But the word map or Mallory will always mean King Arthur Even though we find older and better versions than the Mavic Nonion or right later and worse versions than the idils of the king The nursery fairy tales may have come out of Asia with the Indo-European race now fortunately extinct They may have been invented by some fine French lady or gentleman like Perot They may possibly even be what they profess to be But we shall always call the best selection of such tales Grims tales simply because it is the best collection The historical Isop been so far as he was historical would seem to have been a Thirgin's slave Or at least not one to be specially and symbolically adorned with the Thirgin cap of liberty

3:15He lived if he did live about the sixth century before Christ in that time of Crosius whose story we love and suspect like everything else in Herodotus There are also stories of deformity of feature and a ready-ribal dre of tongue Stories which as the celebrated cardinal said explain though they do not excuse is having been hurled over a high precipice at Delphi It is for those who read the fables to judge whether he was really thrown over the cliff for being ugly and offensive Or rather for being highly moral and correct But there is no kind of doubt that the general legend of him may justly rank him with a race too easily forgotten in our modern comparisons The race of the great philosophic slaves Asop may have been a fiction like Uncle Remus he was also like Uncle Remus a fact It is a fact that slaves in the old world could be worshipped like Asop or loved like Uncle Remus

4:20It is odd to note that both the great slaves told their best stories about beasts and birds But whatever is fairly due to Asop the human tradition called fables is not due to him This had gone on long before any sarcastic freedman from Fergia had or had not been flung off a precipice This has remained long after It is to our advantage indeed to realize the distinction because it makes Asop more obviously effective than any other fabulous Grims tales glorious as they are were collected by two German students And if we find it hard to be certain of a German student at least we know more about him than we know about a friggin slave The truth is of course that Asop's fables are not Asop's fables Any more than Grims fairy tales were ever Grims fairy tales But the fable and the fairy tale are things utterly distinct

5:22There are many elements of difference, but the planist is plain enough There can be no good fable with human beings in it There can be no good fairy tale without them Asop or Babrius or whatever his name was understood that for a fable all the persons must be impersonal They must be like abstractions in algebra or like pieces in chess The lion must always be stronger than the wolf just as four is always double of two The fox in a fable must move crooked as the knight in chess must move crooked The sheep in a fable must march on as the pawn in chess must march on The fable must not allow for the crooked captures of the pawn It must not allow for what Balzac called the revolt of a sheep The fairy tale on the other hand absolutely revolves on the pivot of human personality If no hero were there to fight the dragons we should not even know that there were dragons

6:28If no adventurer were cast on the undiscovered island it would remain undiscovered If the miller's third son does not find the enchanted garden where the seven princesses stand white and frozen Why then they will remain white and frozen and enchanted If there is no personal prince to find the sleeping beauty she will simply sleep Fables repose upon quite the opposite idea that everything is itself and will in any case speak for itself The wolf will always be wolfish the fox will always be foxy Something of the same sort may have been meant by the animal worship in which Egyptian and Indian and many other great people have combined Men do not I think love beetles or cats or crocodiles with a wholly personal love They salute them as expressions of that abstract and anonymous energy in nature Which to anyone is awful and to an atheist may be frightful

7:31So in all the fables that are or are not asops all the animal forces drive like inanimate forces Like great rivers or growing trees It is the limit and the loss of all such things that they cannot be anything but themselves It is their tragedy that they could not lose their souls This is the immortal justification of the fable that we could not teach the planist truths so simply without turning men into chessmen We cannot talk of such simple things without using animals that do not talk at all Suppose for a moment that you turn the wolf into a wolfish baron or the fox into a foxy Deplomatist you will at once remember that even barons are human You will be unable to forget that even diplomatists are men You will always be looking for that accidental good humor that should go with the brutality of any brutal man

8:34For that allowance of all delicate things including virtue that should exist in any good diplomatist Once put a thing on two legs instead of four and plucket of feathers and you cannot help asking for a human being Either heroic as in the fairy tales or unheroic as in the modern novels But by using animals in this austere and arbitrary style as they are used on the shields of heraldry or in the hieroglyphics of the ancients Men have really succeeded in handing down those tremendous truths that are called truisms If the chivalric lion be red and rampant it is rigidly red and rampant If the sacred ibis stands anywhere on one leg it stands on one leg forever In this language like a large animal alphabet are written some of the first philosophic certainties of men As the child learns a for ass or b for bull or c for cow

9:36So man has learned here to connect the simpler and stronger creatures with the simpler and stronger truisms That a flowing stream cannot be fouled its own fountain And that anyone who says it does is a tyrant and a liar That a mouse is too weak to fight a lion but too strong for the cords that can hold a lion That a fox who gets the most out of a flat dish may easily get least out of a deep dish That the crow whom the gods forbid to sing the gods nevertheless provide with cheese That when the goat insults from a mountain top it is not the goat that insults but the mountain And all these are deep truths deeply graven on the rocks wherever men have passed It matters nothing how old they are or how new They are the alphabet of humanity which like so many forms of primitive picture writing employs any living symbol in preference to man

10:38These ancient and universal tales are all of animals as the latest discoveries in the oldest prehistoric caverns are all of animals Man in his simpler states always felt that he himself was something too mysterious to be drawn But the legend he carved under these cruder symbols was everywhere the same And whether fables began with Asap or began with Adam Whether they are German and Medieval as Renard the Fox or as French and Renaissance as La Fontaine The upshot is everywhere essentially the same That superiority is always insolence because it is always accidental That pride goes before a fall and that there is such a thing as being too clever by half You will not find any other legend but this written upon the rocks by any hand of man There is every type and time of table but there is only one moral to the table

11:43Because there is only one moral to everything Discovered top rated stays loved by guests rated highest by real guests throughout thin to reviews Verbo book a vacation rental loved by guests Book a love by guest property with Verbo and you get a top rated vacation rental that's love for all the right reasons Oh, I love my Verbo for the location good reason oh and for the pool because pools are cool I feel the love book a Verbo that's love by guests if you know you Verbo Introduction by GK Chesterton This is a Libravox recording all Libravox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit Libravox.org Esop's Fables the Fox and the grapes A hungry fox saw some fine bunches of grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis

12:47And it is best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air But it was all in vain for they were just out of reach So he gave up trying and walked away with an air of dignity and unconcern remarking I thought those grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour End of fox and the grapes This is a Libravox recording all Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit Libravox.org Esop's Fables the Goose that laid the golden eggs A man and his wife had the good fortune to possess a goose which laid a golden egg every day Lucky though they were they soon began to think that they were not getting rich fast enough And imagining the bird must be made of gold inside

13:48They decided to kill it in order to secure the whole store of precious metal at once But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose Thus they neither got rich all at once as they had hoped Nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth Much once more and loses all End of the goose that laid the golden eggs This is a Libravox recording all Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit Libravox.org Recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI dot com Esop's Fables the cat and the mice There was once a house that was overrun with mice

14:49A cat heard of this and said to herself That's the place for me and off she went and took up her quarters in the house and caught the mice one by one and ate them At last the mice could stand it no longer and they determined to take to their holes and stay there That's awkward said the cat to herself The only thing to do is to coax them out by a trick So she considered a while and then climbed up the wall and let herself hang down by her hind legs from a peg And pretended to be dead By and by a mouse peeped out and saw the cat hanging there Aha it cried you were very clever mad him no doubt But you may turn yourself into a bag of meal hanging there if you like yet you won't catch us coming anywhere near you If you are wise you won't be deceived by the innocent heirs of those whom you have once found to be dangerous

15:52End of the cat and the mice This is a LibraVox recording all LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI dot com A sub's fables the mischievous dog There was once a dog who used to snap at people and bite them without any provocation And who was a great nuisance to everyone who came to his master's house So his master fastened a bell around his neck to warn people of his prisons The dog was very proud of the bell and strutted about tinkling it with immense satisfaction But an old dog came up to him and said

16:55Fewer heirs you give yourself the better my friend You don't think do you that your bell was given you as a reward of merit On the contrary it is a badge of disgrace Notaryity is often mistaken for fame End of the mischievous dog This is a LibraVox recording all LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recorded by worreps A sub fails the charcoal burner and the fula There was once a charcoal burner who lived and worked by himself A fula however happened to come and settle in the same neighborhood And the charcoal burner having made his acquaintance And finding he was an agreeable sort of fellow

17:57Ask him if he would come and share his house We shall get to know one another better away He said and beside our household expenses will be diminished The fula thanked him but replied I couldn't think of it sir Why everything I take such pains to whiten would be blackened in no time by your charcoal And of the charcoal burner on the fula This is a LibraVox recording all LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recorded by Annie Coleman in St. Louis, Missouri on January 12th, 2006 ASOPs Fables The Mice in Council Once upon a time all the mice met together in council and discussed the best means of securing themselves

19:04Against the attacks of the cat After several suggestions had been debated A mouse of some standing and experience got up and said I think I have hit upon a plan which will ensure our safety in the future Provided you approve and carry it out It is that we should fasten a bell around the neck of our enemy the cat Which will by its tinkling warn us of her approach This proposal was warmly applauded and it had been already decided to adopt it When an old mouse got upon his feet and said I agree with you all that the plan before us is an admirable one But may I ask who is going to bell the cat End of the mice in council This is a LibraVox recording all LibraVox recordings are in the public domain

20:07For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recorded by Beth Dudeck Esop's Fables, The Bat and the Weasels A bat fell to the ground and was caught by a Weasel And was just going to be killed and eaten when it begged to be let go The Weasel said he couldn't do that because he was an enemy of all birds on principle Oh, but said the bat I'm not a bird at all. I'm a mouse So you are said the Weasel now I come to look at you and he let it go Sometime after this the bat was caught in just the same way by another Weasel And as before begged for its life

21:07No said the Weasel I never let a mouse go by any chance But I'm not a mouse said the bat I'm a bird Why so you are said the Weasel and he too let the bat go Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself End of the bat and the Weasels This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recorded by Beth Dudeck Esop's Fables, The Dog and the Sous A dog and a sou were arguing and each claimed that its own young ones were finer than those of any other animal

22:08Well said the sou at last Mine can see at any rate when they come into the world but yours are born blind End of the dog and the sou This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org This reading by Cara Schalenberg www.kray.org Esop's Fables, The Fox and the Crow A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak When a fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said What a noble bird I see above me Her beauty is without equal the hue of her plumage exquisite

23:11If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair She ought without doubt to be queen of the birds The Crow was hugely flattered by this and just to show the fox that she could sing she gave a loud ca Down came the cheese of course and the fox snatching it up said You have a voice madam I see what you want is wits End of The Fox and the Crow Red by Cara Schalenberg on January 11th 2006 in Oceanside, California This is a LibraVox recording all LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI dot com

24:19A sub's fables The horse and the groom There was once a groom who used to spend long hours clipping and combing the horse of which he had charge But who daily stole a portion of his allowance of oats and sold it for his own profit The horse gradually got into worse and worse condition and at last cried to the groom If you really want me to look sleek and well he must comb me less and feed me more End of The Horse and the groom This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI dot com

25:25A sub's fables The wolf and the lamb A wolf came upon the lamb straying from the flock and felt some compunction about taking the life of so helpless a creature without some plausible excuse So he cast about for a grievance and said at last Last year Sura you grossly insulted me That is impossible sir lead at the lamb for I wasn't born then Well retorted the wolf you feed in my pastures That cannot be replied the lamb for I have never yet tasted grass You drink from my spring then continued the wolf Indeed sir said the poor lamb I have never yet drunk anything but my mother's milk Well anyhow said the wolf I'm not going without my dinner and he sprang upon the lamb and devoured it without more ado And of the wolf and the lamb

26:43This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org recorded by Beth Dudeck Esaps fables the peacock and the crane A peacock taunted a crane with the dullness of her plumage Look at my brilliant colors said she and see how much finer they are than your poor feathers I am not denying replied the crane that yours are far gager than mine But when it comes to flying I can soar into the clouds Whereas you are confined to the earth like any dung hill cack End of the peacock and the crane This is a LibraVox recording

27:44All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org recorded by Beth Dudeck Esaps fables The cat and the birds A cat heard that the birds in an aviary were ailing So he got himself up as a doctor And taking with him a set of the instruments proper to his profession Presented himself at the door and inquired after the health of the birds We shall do very well they replied without letting him in When we've seen the last of you A villain may disguise himself but he will not deceive the wise End of the cat and the birds This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain

28:45For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI.com Esaps fables The spendthrift and the swallow A spendthrift who had wasted his fortune and had nothing left but the clothes in which he stood Saw swallow one fine day in early spring Thinking that summer had come and that he could now do without his coat He went and sold it for what it would fetch A change however took place in the weather and there came a sharp frost which killed the unfortunate swallow When the spendthrift saw its dead body he cried Misroral bull bird thanks to you. I am perishing of cold myself One swallow does not make summer End of the spendthrift and the swallow

29:53This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org recording by Kristen Luoma green KRI.com Esaps fables The old woman and the doctor An old woman became almost totally blind from a disease of the eyes And after consulting a doctor made an agreement with him in the presence of witnesses That she should pay him a high fee if he cured her While if he failed he was to receive nothing The doctor accordingly prescribed a course of treatment And every time he paid her a visit he took away with him some article out of the house Until at last when he visited her for the last time And if the cure was complete there was nothing left

30:53When the old woman saw that the house was empty she refused to pay him his fee And after repeated refusals on her part He sued her before the magistrates for payment of her debt On being brought into court she was ready with her defense The claimant said she has stated the facts about our agreement correctly I undertook to pay him a fee if he cured me And he on his part promised to charge nothing if he failed Now he says I am cured But I say that I am blinder than ever and I can prove what I say When my eyes were bad I could at any rate see well enough To be aware that my house contained a certain amount of furniture and other things But now when according to him I am cured I am entirely unable to see anything there at all End of the old woman and the doctor

31:56This is a Librebox Recording Only Rebox Recording are in the public domain For more information and to find out how you can volunteer please visit Librebox.org Recorded by Warrups Asubs Fables The Moon and her Mother The Moon once begged her mother to make her a goal How can I reply she There's no fit in your figure At one time you're a new moon and at another you're a full moon and between whilst you're needed one nor the other End of the Moon and her mother This is a Librebox Recording All Librebox recordings are in the public domain

32:57For more information or to volunteer please visit Librebox.org Recorded by Annie Coleman in St. Louis, Missouri on January 12th 2006 Asubs Fables Mercury and the Woodman A Woodman was felling a tree on the bank of a river when his axe glancing off the trunk flew out of his hands and fell into the water As he stood by the water's edge lamenting his loss Mercury appeared and asked him the reason for his grief And on learning what had happened out of pity for his distress He dived into the river and bringing up a golden axe Asked him if that was the one he had lost The Woodman replied that it was not and Mercury then dived a second time And bringing up a silver axe asked if that was his

33:58No, that is not mine either said the Woodman Once more Mercury dived into the river and brought up the missing axe The Woodman was overjoyed at recovering his property and thanked his benefactor warmly And the latter was so pleased with his honesty that he made him a present of the other two axes When the Woodman told the story to his companions one of these was filled with envy of his good fortune And determined to try his luck for himself So he went and began to fell a tree at the edge of the river And presently contrived to let his axe drop into the water Mercury appeared as before and on learning that his axe had fallen in He dived and brought up a golden axe as he had done on the previous occasion Without waiting to be asked whether it was his or not the fellow-cryde That's mine, that's mine!

34:58And stretched out his hand eagerly for the prize But Mercury was so disgusted at his dishonesty that he not only declined to give him the golden axe But also refused to recover for him the one he had let fall into the stream Honesty is the best policy End of Mercury and the Woodman This is a LibraVox recording All LibraVox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer please visit LibraVox.org Recorded by Annie Coleman in St. Louis, Missouri on January 13th, 2006 Aesop's Fables The As, the Fox, and the Lion

35:58An As and a Fox went into partnership and sell it out to forage for food together They hadn't gone far before they saw a lion coming their way At which they were both dreadfully frightened But the Fox thought he saw a way of saving his own skin And went boldly up to the lion and whispered in his ear All managed that you shall get hold of the ass without the trouble of stalking him If you promise to let me go free The lion agreed to this and the Fox then rejoined his companion And contrived before long to lead him by a hidden pit Which some hunter had dug as a trap for wild animals And into which he fell When the lion saw that the ass was safely caught and couldn't get away It was to the Fox that he first turned his attention And he soon finished him off And then at his leisure proceeded to feast upon the ass

37:03Betray a friend and you'll often find you have ruined yourself End of the As, the Fox, and the Lion This is a Libravox Recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Libravox.org Recorded by Robert Garrison For more information on this reader Please visit climber53.com Asus Fables The Lion and the Mouse A lion asleep in his lair was waked up by a mouse running over his face Losing his temper he seized it with his paw and was about to kill it The mouse terrified

38:04Pityously entreated him to spare its life Please let me go It cried And one day I will repay you for your kindness The idea of so insignificant a creature ever being able to do anything for him Amuse the lion so much that he laughed aloud and good humoredly let it go But the mouse's chance came after all One day the lion got entangled in a net which had been spread for game by some hunters And the mouse heard and recognized his roars of anger and ran to the spot Without more ado it's set to work to naw the ropes with its teeth And succeeded before long in setting the lion free There Said the mouse You laughed at me when I promised I would repay you But now you see even a mouse can help a lion End of the lion and the mouse

39:07This is a Libravox recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Libravox.org This reading by Cara Schalenberg www.kray.org Asups Fables The Crow and the Pitcher A thirsty crow found a pitcher with some water in it But so little was there that Try as she might she could not reach it with her beak And it seemed as though she would die of thirst within sight of the remedy At last she hid upon a clever plan She began dropping pebbles into the pitcher And with each pebble the water rose a little higher Until at last it reached the brim And the knowing bird was enabled to quench her thirst

40:10Necessity is the mother of invention End of the Crow and the Pitcher Read by Cara Schalenberg on January 13th 2006 in Oceanside, California This is a Libravox recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Libravox.org Recorded by Annie Coleman In St. Louis, Missouri on January 13th 2006 Asups Fables The Boys and the Frogs Some mischievous boys were playing on the edge of a pond And catching sight of some frogs swimming about in the shallow water They began to amuse themselves by pelting them with stones

41:13And they killed several of them At last one of the frogs put his head out of the water And said Oh stop stop I beg of you What is sport to you is death to us End of the Boys and the Frogs This is a Libravox recording All Libravox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Librivox.org Asups Fables The North Wind and the Sun A dispute arose between the North Wind and the Sun Each claiming that he was stronger than the other At last they agreed to try their powers upon a traveler To see which could soon strip him of his cloak The North Wind had the first try

42:15And gathering up all his force for the attack He came whirling furiously down upon the man And caught up his cloak as though he would rest it from him by one single effort But the harder he blew the more closely the man wrapped it round himself Then came the turn of the Sun At first he beam gently upon the traveler Who soon unclassed his cloak And walked on with it hanging loosely about his shoulders Then he shan forth in his full strength And the man before he had gone many steps Was glad to throw his cloak right off And complete his journey more likely clad Persuasion is better than force End of the North Wind and the Sun This is a Librivox recording All Librivox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Librivox.org AeSub's Fables

43:17The Mistress and her servants A widow, thrifty and industrious Had two servants whom she kept pretty hard at work They were not allowed to lie long a bed in the mornings But the old lady had them up and doing as soon as the cock grew They disliked intensely having to get up at such an hour Especially in the wintertime And they thought that if it were not for the cock waking up their mistress so horribly early They could sleep longer So they caught it and wrung its neck But they weren't prepared for the consequences For what happened was that their mistress Not hearing the cock crow as usual Waited them up earlier than ever And set them to work in the middle of the night End of the Mistress and her servants This is a Librivox recording All Librivox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer

44:17Please visit Librivox.org AeSub's Fables The Goods and the Ills There was a time in the youth of the world When Goods and Ills entered equally into the concerns of men So that the Goods did not prevail to make them altogether blessed Nor the Ills to make them wholly miserable But owing to the foolishness of mankind The Ills multiplied greatly in number and increased in strength Until it seemed as though they would deprive the Goods Of all share in human affairs And banish them from the earth The latter therefore Be took themselves to heaven And complained to Jupiter of the treatment they had received At the same time praying to him to grant them protection from the Ills And to advise them concerning the manner of their intercourse with men Jupiter granted their request for protection And to create that for the future They should not go among men openly in a body

45:18And so be liable to attack from the hostile Ills But singly and unobserved And at infrequent and unexpected intervals Hence it is that the earth is full of Ills For they come and go as they please And are never far away While Goods, Alas, come one by one only And have to travel all the way from heaven So that they are very seldom seen End of the Goods and the Ills This is a Librivox recording All Librivox recordings are in the public domain For more information or to volunteer Please visit Librivox.org Aces Fables The Hares and the Frogs The Hares once gathered together and lamented the unhappiness of their lot Exposed as they were to dangers on all sides

46:19And lacking the strength and the courage to hold their own Men, dogs, birds, and beasts of prey were all their enemies And killed and devoured them daily And sooner than endure such persecution any longer They won an all determined to end their miserable lives Thus resolved and desperate They rushed in a body towards a neighboring pool Intending to drown themselves On the bank were sitting a number of frogs Who when they heard the noise of the Hares as they ran With one accord leaped into the water And hid themselves in the depths Then one of the older Hares Whose wisers and the rest Cryed out to his companions Stop my friends Take heart Don't let us destroy ourselves after all See here are creatures who are afraid of us And who must therefore be still more timid than ourselves

47:21End of the Hares and the Frogs