Fables
give lessons for younger children with small stories involving animal that can talk. A fable is a special kind of story, it is short, usually has animal characters, and teaches a lesson. The World encyclopedia says “Others are short poems. Some are the longer than a paragraph. Others are short poems. The characters are animals, but they talk and act like people. In fact, the meaning of these animals wisely says.” (P. 2)
Many of the best-known are said to be by Aesop, a Greek slave who lived about 600 B.C. About 200 years after Aesop’s death, the were collected by Demetrius Phalereus, the first manager of the great library at Alexandria, Later they were translated into Latin. ...
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deep water until you could swim? Now if you were a strong swimmer like me, and so he went on preaching at Tom until the poor boy was almost drowned. But Tom managed to find a place where the water was not so deep, and was able to scramble to the bank. Lesson of this fable is, A helping hand is better than a sermon.
Another example of friendship is THE LION AND THE MOUSE. One hot day a lion was sleeping under a rock, he was big, long, very splendid and noble; in fact, as everyone knows, he was King of all animals. Now it so happened that a mouse had lost her way. Running hither and thither, she stumbled over Lion’s very nose and woke him. Instantly Lion put out a paw and held mouse fast to the ground. Mice, as everyone knows, are very little animals, and this mouse was specially little. But she stuck her head out from under Lion’s paw began to squeak piteously.
‘Oh, Your Majesty,’ she squeaked, ‘please forgive me. I didn’t mean to trip over Your Majesty’s nose and ...
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He was asleep again.
Well, a long time afterwards, Lion was roaming through the jungle, not looking where he was going, because he was King of all animals and had become just a bit careless, so he fell right into a trap that some hunters had set for him. It was a deep pit covered over with a net hidden by leaves. Into the pit fell Lion with the net all around him, so that he got tangled up and couldn’t free himself. So he let a great roar, and the whole jungle shook with his roaring, and every creature in the jungle stopped what they were doing and trembled with fear.
Not far off the little mouse put down a corn stalk she was nibbling and said to herself: ‘now where have I ...
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