The Viper and the File

         The Lion and the Shepherd

         The Camel and Jupiter

         The Panther and the Shepherds

         The Ass and the Charger

         The Eagle and His Captor

         The Bald Man and the Fly

         The Olive-Tree and the Fig-Tree

         The Eagle and the Kite

         The Ass and His Driver

         The Thrush and the Fowler

         The Rose and the Amaranth

         The Frogs' Complaint Against the Sun

         LIFE OF AESOP

         PREFACE

         FOOTNOTES

   WOLF, meeting with a Lamb astray from the fold, resolved not to lay violent hands on him, but to find some plea to justify to the Lamb the Wolf's right to eat him. He thus addressed him: "Sirrah, last year you grossly insulted me." "Indeed," bleated the Lamb in a mournful tone of voice, "I was not then born." Then said the Wolf, "You feed in my pasture." "No, good sir," replied the Lamb, "I have not yet tasted grass." Again said the Wolf, "You drink of my well." "No," exclaimed the Lamb, "I never yet drank water, for as yet my mother's milk is both food and drink to me." Upon which the Wolf seized him and ate him up, 

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