Identifier: aesopsfables00aeso (find matches)
Title: Aesop's fables
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Aesop Vernon Jones, V. S. (Vernon Stanley) Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill
Subjects: Fables
Publisher: London : Heinemann New York : Doubleday, Page
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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THE GNAT AND THE LION A GNAT once went up to a Lion and said, ** I am not*^^ in the least afraid of you : I dont even allow thatyou are a match for me in strength. What does yourstrength amount to after all ? That you can scratch withyour claws and bite with your teeth—just like a womanin a temper—and nothing more. But Im strongerthan you : if you dont beheve it, let us fight and see.*So saying, the Gnat sounded his horn, and darted inand bit the Lion on the nose. When the Lion felt thesting, in his haste to crush him he scratched his nosebadly, and made it bleed, but failed altogether to hurt the198 THE GNAT AND THE LION
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Gnat, which buzzed off in triumph, elated by its victory.Presently, however, it got entangled in a spiders web,and was caught and eaten by the spider, thus falling aprey to an insignificant insect after having triumphedover the King of the Beasts. THE FARMER AND HIS DOGS A FARMER was snowed up in his farmstead by a severe^^^^ storm, and was unable to go out and procure pro-visions for himself and his family. So he first killedhis sheep and used them for food ; then, as the stormstill continued, he killed his goats ; and, last of all, asthe weather showed no signs of improving, he was com-pelled to kill his oxen and eat them. When his Dogssav/ the various animals being killed and eaten in turn,they said to one another, We had better get out of thisor we shall be the next to go! THE EAGLE AND THE FOX A N Eagle and a Fox became great friends and deter- mined to live near one another : they thought that the more they saw of each other the better friends they would be. So the Eagle built a

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