Aesop

The North Wind and the Sun had a quarrel about which of them was the stronger. While they were disputing with much heat and bluster, a traveler passed along the ...

The mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the ...

The fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the stork, at ...

A stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of cranes ...

A lion had been watching three bullocks feeding in an open field. He had tried to attack them ...

A very young mouse, who had never seen anything of the world, almost came to grief the very ...

A stag, drinking from a crystal spring, saw himself mirrored in the clear water. He greatly admired the ...

Two goats, frisking gayly on the rocky steeps of a mountain valley, chanced to meet, one on each ...

A stray lamb stood drinking early one morning on the bank of a woodland stream. That very same ...

One day, a long time ago, an old miller and his son were on their way to market ...

In “Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama,” the hefty volume once used by my Advanced Placement ...