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The Mice and the Hot Tempered Frogs
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
This is, I believe, a pleasant mixture of the fable about a single frog and mouse and the batrychomuamachia. The fight breaks out over fears that the enemy will take over the others' homes. The other animals get sick of ...
The Crow and the Dove
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
The version of this fable is difficult for me. A man brings home a "mother" dove and takes care of it in its cage. A neighboring crow tries to befriend this dove, insulted, answers: "You must have a hard life. I live ...
The Lamb and the Crocodile
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
A lamb comes tired and thirsty to the river, only to discover a crocodile there. The latter tries to persuade the lamb to come and take a drink. The lamb eventually comes up with a fine answer: "You don't care that I'm ...
The Deer's Day Out
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
This version of "The Stag Admiring His Horns" develops several elements, perhaps not all wisely. The story starts with the stag proud of everything about himself, including his "long legs." Further, he brags about himself ...
The Kind Snake & the Crafty Porcupine
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
The friendly snake lets the porcupine stay with him when others have refused this prickly guest. Soon the snake is annoyed and asks the porcupine to leave. "If you have a problem," the porcupine says, "you have to go and ...
The Crow and the Swan
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
The ugly crow is taken with the beauty of the swan, underscored here by the artist by having her young sail along on her back next to her wing. He decides that staying in the water will make him white like her. His friends ...
The Cricket and the Dumb Donkey
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
The donkey is charmed by the cricket's song and learns that the cricket drinks dew drops from the leaves. So he drinks dew drops from the leaves for a number of days, grows weak, and dies. The stated moral is "Choose the ...
The Dove and the Hare
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
An eagle catches an unsuspecting hare and is about to eat him. A pigeon comes by and joins in mocking the hare. Just then a fox catches the pigeon unawares. The stated moral is "Don't walk on people who are down." True ...
The Tiger and The Wild buffalo
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
The lion divides the two buffalo friends by suggesting untrue rumors to each about the other. There is an English error late in the story: "parted aways." The stated moral is "unity is strength." True to this series, ...
The Donkey and the Statue
(Reading Support Foundation, 2018)
This is the story that I used in a bishops' retreat some years ago. It made quite an impact. In this case, an artist finishes a beautiful sculpture and ties it on the donkey's back to carry it into the village. There ...