AESOP'S FABLES - online children's book

300 favourite fables with illustrations by Arthur Rackham

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I'm not big enough," she pleaded, ' to make you a good meal : you ought to seek your prey among the bigger birds," The Hawk eyed her with some contempt.
You must think me very simple," said he, ' if you suppose I am going to give up a certain prize on the chance of a better of which I see at present no signs."
THE ROSE AND THE AMARANTH
A ROSE and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the Amaranth said to her neighbour,
' How I envy you your beauty and your sweet scent! No wonder you are such a universal favourite." But the Rose replied with a shade of sadness in her voice, '' Ah, my dear friend, I bloom but for a time : my petals soon wither and fall, and then I die. But your flowers never fade, even if they are cut; for they are everlasting."
THE MAN, THE HORSE, THE OX, AND THE DOG
/\NE winter's day, during a severe storm, a Horse, S an Ox, and a Dog came and begged for shelter in the house of a Man. He readily admitted them, and, as they were cold and wet, he lit a fire for their 188