August 11, 2021 • 16 mins
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(00:00):
The wolves and the sheep. Whyshould there always be this implacable warfare between
us, said the wolves to thesheep. Those evil disposed dogs have much
to answer for they always bark wheneverwe approach, and attack us before we
have done any harm. If youwould only dismiss them from your heels,
(00:23):
there might soon be treaties of peacebetween us. The sheep, poor silly
creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissedthe dogs. The wolves destroyed the unguarded
flock at their pleasure, change notfriends for foes. The Fox and the
(00:43):
stark. The fox invited the starkto dinner and provided nothing but a soup
in a wide, shallow dish.This he could lap up with ease.
But the stark, who could butdip in the point of his bill,
was not a bit better. Afew days after, he returned the compliment
and invited the fox, but sufferednothing to be brought to the table but
(01:07):
some minced meat in a glass jar, the neck of which was so deep
and so narrow, that though thestark with his long bill, could eat
very well, all that the foxcould do was to lick the brims.
Reynard was heartily vexed, but ownedthat he had been used as he deserved.
(01:29):
Those who practiced cunning must expect tosuffer by it. The bat and
the weasels. A bat, fallingupon the ground, was caught by a
weasel, of whom he earnestly besoughthis life. The weasel refused, saying
that he was by nature the enemyof all birds. The bat assured him
(01:49):
that he was not a bird buta mouse, and thus saved his life.
Shortly afterward, the bat again fellon the ground and was caught by
another weasel, whom he likewise entreatednot to eat him. The weasel said
that he had a special hostility tomice. The bat assured him that he
was not a mouse but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.
(02:15):
The hare and the tartise. Ahare one day ridiculed the short feet and
slow pace of the tartoise. Thelatter, laughing, said, though you
be swift as the wind, Iwill beat you in a race. The
hare, deeming her assertion to besimply impossible, assented to the proposal,
(02:38):
and they agreed that the fox shouldchoose the course and fix the goal.
On the day appointed for the race, they started together The tartise never for
a moment stopped, but went onwith a slow but steady pace straight to
the end of the course. Thehare, trusting to his native swiftness,
(03:00):
cared little about the race, and, lying down by the wayside, fell
fast asleep. At last, wakingup and moving as fast as he could,
he saw the tartis had reached thegoal and was comfortably dozing after her
fatigue. Perseverance is surer than swiftness. Jupiter and the Monkey. Jupiter issued
(03:25):
a proclamation to all the beasts ofthe forest and promised a royal reward to
the one whose offspring should be deemedthe handsomest. The monkey came with the
rest and presented with all a mother'stenderness, a flat nosed, hairless,
ill featured young monkey as a candidatefor the promised reward. A general laugh
(03:47):
saluted her. On the presentation ofher son, She resolutely said, I
know not whether Jupiter will allot theprize to my son, but this I
do know, that he is thedearest, handsomest and most beautiful of all
who were here. A mother's loveblinds her to many imperfections. The lion
(04:13):
in love a lion demanded the daughterof a woodcutter in marriage. The father,
unwilling to grant and yet afraid torefuse his request, hit upon this
expedient. He expressed his willingness toaccept him as a suitor of his daughter,
on one condition that he should allowhim to extract his teeth and cut
(04:34):
off his claws. The lion cheerfullyassented to the proposal. When, however,
he next repeated his request, thewoodman set upon him with his club.
The miser a miser had a lumpof gold which he buried in the
ground, coming to look at thespot every day. One day he found
(04:57):
that it was stolen, and hebegan to his hair and loudly lament.
A neighbor seeing him, said,pray, do not grieve, so bury
a stone in the hole and fancyit is the gold. It will serve
you just as well, for whenthe goal was there, you made no
use of it. A wolf sawa goat feeding at the summit of a
(05:21):
steep precipice, where he had nota chance of reaching her. He called
to her and earnestly besought her tocome lower down, lest she should,
by some mishap get a fall.And he added that the meadows lay where
he was standing, and that theherbage was most tender. She replied,
(05:41):
no, my friend, it isnot of me your thinking, but of
yourself. Invitations prompted by selfishness arenot to be accepted. A bald knight.
A bald knight who wore a wigwent out to a sudden puff of
wind, blew off his hat andwig, at which a loud laugh rang
(06:05):
forth from his companions. He joinedin the joke by saying, what marvel
of that hairs which are not mineshould fly from me when my own had
forsaken even the man with whom theywere born. Those who could not take
care of their own should not beentrusted with the care of another's property.
(06:28):
The Fox and the woodcutter. Afox running before the hounds came across a
woodcutter felling an oak, and besoughthim to show him a safe hiding place.
The woodcutter advised him to take shelterin his own hut. The fox
crept in and hid himself in acorner. The huntsman came up with his
(06:48):
hounds in a few minutes and inquiredof the woodcutter if he had seen the
fox he declared that he had notseen him, and yet pointed all the
time he was speaking to the hutwhere the fox lay hid. The huntsman
took no notice of the signs,but believing his word, hastened forward in
(07:09):
the chase. As soon as theywere well away, the fox departed without
taking any notice of the woodcutter,whereon he called to him and reproached him,
saying, you, ungrateful fellow.You owe your life to me,
and yet you leave me without aword of thanks. The fox replied,
indeed, I should have thanked youmost fervently if your deeds had been as
(07:31):
good as your words. The Kidand the Wolf. A kid mounted on
a high rock bestowed all manner ofabuse upon a wolf on the ground below.
The wolf, looking up, replied, do not think, vain creature
that you annoy me. I regardthis ill language as coming not from you,
(07:55):
but from the place on which youstand. The Lion, the bear,
and the fox. A lion anda bear seized upon a kid at
the same moment and fought fiercely forits possession. When they had fearfully lacerated
each other and were faint from thelong combat, they lay down exhausted with
(08:18):
fatigue. A fox, who hadgone round them at a distance several times,
saw them both stretched on the ground, and the kid, lying untouched
in the middle, ran in betweenthem and seized the kid, scampering off
as fast as he could. Thelion and the bear saw him, but,
not being able to get up,said, woe betide us, that
(08:41):
we should have fought and belabored ourselvesonly to serve the turn of a fox.
It sometimes happens that one man hasall the toil and another all the
prophet the stag in the ox stall. A stag, hardly pressed by the
hounds and blind from fear to thedanger he was running into, took shelter
(09:07):
in a farmyard and hid himself ina shed among the oxen. An ox
gave him this kindly warning, O, unhappy creature, Why should you thus,
of your own accord, incur destructionand trust yourself in the house of
your enemy? The stag replied,Do you only suffer me, friend,
to stay where I am, andI will undertake to find some favorable opportunity
(09:33):
of effecting my escape. At theapproach of the evening, the herdsman came
to feed his cattle but did notsee the stag. The stag, congratulating
himself on his safety, began toexpress his sincere thanks to the oxen who
had kindly afforded him help in thehour of need. One of them again
answered him, we indeed wish youwell, but the danger is not over.
(09:58):
There is one other yet to passthrough this shed, who has,
as it were, a hundred eyes, and until he is come and gone,
your life is still in peril.At that moment, the master himself
entered, and, having had tocomplain that his oxen had not been properly
fed, he went up to theirracks and cried out, why is there
(10:20):
such a scarcity of fodder? Thereis not half enough straw for them to
lie on. Those lazy fellows havenot even swept the cobwebs away. While
he thus examined everything, he spiedthe antlers of the stag peeping out of
the straw. Summoning his laborers,he ordered that the stag should be killed.
(10:41):
What is safety for one is notalways safety for another. The eagle
and the jackdaw an eagle, flyingdown from his airy on a lofty rock,
seized upon a lamb and carried himaloft in his talons. A jackdaw
who witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy and determined to
(11:05):
emulate the stress and flight of theeagle. He flew round with a great
word of its wings and settled upona large sheep, with the intention of
carrying it off. But his clawsbecoming entangled in his fleece, he was
unable to release himself, although hefluttered with his feathers as much as he
could. The shepherd, seeing whathad happened, ran up and caught him.
(11:30):
He at once clipped his wings,and taking him moment night, gave
him to his children. We shouldnot permit our ambition to lead us beyond
the limits of our power. Thethree tradesmen. A great city was besieged,
and its inhabitants were called together toconsider the best means of protecting it
(11:52):
from the enemy. A bricklayer presentearnestly recommended bricks, as it afforded the
materials for an effectual resistance. Acarpenter with equal energy proposed timber as providing
a preferable method of defense, uponwhich a courier stood up and said,
(12:13):
Sirs, I differ from you.Altogether, there was no material for resistance
equal to a covering of hides,and nothing so good as leather. Every
man for his trade. The dancingmonkeys. A prince had some monkeys trained
to dance. Being naturally great mimicsof men's actions, they showed themselves most
(12:39):
apt students, and when arrayed intheir rich clothes and masks, they danced
as well as any of the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great
applause, till on one occasion acourtier, bent on mischief, took from
his pocket a handful of nuts andthrew them upon the stage. The monkeys,
(13:01):
at the sight of the nuts,forgot their dancing and became as indeed
they were monkeys instead of actors,and pulling off their masks and tearing their
robes, they fought with one anotherfor the nuts. The dancing spectacle thus
came to an end, amid thelaughter and ridicule of the audience. Those
(13:22):
who assume a character will betray themselvesby their actions. The ass and the
grasshopper. An ass, having heardsome grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted and
desiring to possess the same charms ofmelody. Demanded what sort of food they
lived on to give them such beautifulvoices, They replied the dew. The
(13:48):
ass resolved that he would live onlyon dew, and in a short time
died of hunger. Where one maylive, another may starve. The ass
in the lion's skin. An ass, having put on the lion's skin,
roamed about in the forest and amusedhimself by frightening all the foolish animals he
(14:11):
met with in his wanderings. Atlast, meeting a fox, he tried
to frighten him also, But thefox no sooner heard the sound of his
voice than he exclaimed. I mightpossibly have been frightened myself if I had
not heard your bray. No disguisewill hide one's true character. The boy
(14:35):
bathing. A boy bathing in ariver was in danger of being drowned.
He called out to a traveler passingby for help. The traveler, instead
of holding out a helping hand,stood up unconcernedly and scolded the boy for
his imprudence. Oh, sir,cried the youth. Pray help me now,
(14:56):
and scold me afterwards. Counsel withouthelp is useless. The cock and
the fox. The fox passing earlyone summer's morning, near a farm yard,
was caught in a springe which thefarmer had planted there for that end.
The cock, at a distance,saw what happened, and, hardly
(15:20):
yet daring to trust herself too nearso dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously
and peeped at him. Reynard addressedhimself to him, with all the designing
artifice imaginable, dear cousin, saidhe you see what an unfortunate accident has
befallen me here and all upon youraccount. For as I was creeping through
(15:43):
yonder hedge in my way homeward,I heard you crow, and was resolved
to ask you how you did beforeI went away any further. But I
met with this disaster, and thereforenow I must ask you for a knife
to cut this string, or atleast to seal my misfortune, till I
have gnawded asunder. Lecoq, seeinghow the case stood, made no reply,
(16:07):
but posted away as fast as hecould, and told the farmer who
came and killed the fox. Toaid the vicious is to become a partner
in their guilt. End of Sectionnine
The wolves and the sheep. Whyshould there always be this implacable warfare between
us, said the wolves to thesheep. Those evil disposed dogs have much
to answer for they always bark wheneverwe approach, and attack us before we
have done any harm. If youwould only dismiss them from your heels,
(00:23):
there might soon be treaties of peacebetween us. The sheep, poor silly
creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissedthe dogs. The wolves destroyed the unguarded
flock at their pleasure, change notfriends for foes. The Fox and the
(00:43):
stark. The fox invited the starkto dinner and provided nothing but a soup
in a wide, shallow dish.This he could lap up with ease.
But the stark, who could butdip in the point of his bill,
was not a bit better. Afew days after, he returned the compliment
and invited the fox, but sufferednothing to be brought to the table but
(01:07):
some minced meat in a glass jar, the neck of which was so deep
and so narrow, that though thestark with his long bill, could eat
very well, all that the foxcould do was to lick the brims.
Reynard was heartily vexed, but ownedthat he had been used as he deserved.
(01:29):
Those who practiced cunning must expect tosuffer by it. The bat and
the weasels. A bat, fallingupon the ground, was caught by a
weasel, of whom he earnestly besoughthis life. The weasel refused, saying
that he was by nature the enemyof all birds. The bat assured him
(01:49):
that he was not a bird buta mouse, and thus saved his life.
Shortly afterward, the bat again fellon the ground and was caught by
another weasel, whom he likewise entreatednot to eat him. The weasel said
that he had a special hostility tomice. The bat assured him that he
was not a mouse but a bat, and thus a second time escaped.
(02:15):
The hare and the tartise. Ahare one day ridiculed the short feet and
slow pace of the tartoise. Thelatter, laughing, said, though you
be swift as the wind, Iwill beat you in a race. The
hare, deeming her assertion to besimply impossible, assented to the proposal,
(02:38):
and they agreed that the fox shouldchoose the course and fix the goal.
On the day appointed for the race, they started together The tartise never for
a moment stopped, but went onwith a slow but steady pace straight to
the end of the course. Thehare, trusting to his native swiftness,
(03:00):
cared little about the race, and, lying down by the wayside, fell
fast asleep. At last, wakingup and moving as fast as he could,
he saw the tartis had reached thegoal and was comfortably dozing after her
fatigue. Perseverance is surer than swiftness. Jupiter and the Monkey. Jupiter issued
(03:25):
a proclamation to all the beasts ofthe forest and promised a royal reward to
the one whose offspring should be deemedthe handsomest. The monkey came with the
rest and presented with all a mother'stenderness, a flat nosed, hairless,
ill featured young monkey as a candidatefor the promised reward. A general laugh
(03:47):
saluted her. On the presentation ofher son, She resolutely said, I
know not whether Jupiter will allot theprize to my son, but this I
do know, that he is thedearest, handsomest and most beautiful of all
who were here. A mother's loveblinds her to many imperfections. The lion
(04:13):
in love a lion demanded the daughterof a woodcutter in marriage. The father,
unwilling to grant and yet afraid torefuse his request, hit upon this
expedient. He expressed his willingness toaccept him as a suitor of his daughter,
on one condition that he should allowhim to extract his teeth and cut
(04:34):
off his claws. The lion cheerfullyassented to the proposal. When, however,
he next repeated his request, thewoodman set upon him with his club.
The miser a miser had a lumpof gold which he buried in the
ground, coming to look at thespot every day. One day he found
(04:57):
that it was stolen, and hebegan to his hair and loudly lament.
A neighbor seeing him, said,pray, do not grieve, so bury
a stone in the hole and fancyit is the gold. It will serve
you just as well, for whenthe goal was there, you made no
use of it. A wolf sawa goat feeding at the summit of a
(05:21):
steep precipice, where he had nota chance of reaching her. He called
to her and earnestly besought her tocome lower down, lest she should,
by some mishap get a fall.And he added that the meadows lay where
he was standing, and that theherbage was most tender. She replied,
(05:41):
no, my friend, it isnot of me your thinking, but of
yourself. Invitations prompted by selfishness arenot to be accepted. A bald knight.
A bald knight who wore a wigwent out to a sudden puff of
wind, blew off his hat andwig, at which a loud laugh rang
(06:05):
forth from his companions. He joinedin the joke by saying, what marvel
of that hairs which are not mineshould fly from me when my own had
forsaken even the man with whom theywere born. Those who could not take
care of their own should not beentrusted with the care of another's property.
(06:28):
The Fox and the woodcutter. Afox running before the hounds came across a
woodcutter felling an oak, and besoughthim to show him a safe hiding place.
The woodcutter advised him to take shelterin his own hut. The fox
crept in and hid himself in acorner. The huntsman came up with his
(06:48):
hounds in a few minutes and inquiredof the woodcutter if he had seen the
fox he declared that he had notseen him, and yet pointed all the
time he was speaking to the hutwhere the fox lay hid. The huntsman
took no notice of the signs,but believing his word, hastened forward in
(07:09):
the chase. As soon as theywere well away, the fox departed without
taking any notice of the woodcutter,whereon he called to him and reproached him,
saying, you, ungrateful fellow.You owe your life to me,
and yet you leave me without aword of thanks. The fox replied,
indeed, I should have thanked youmost fervently if your deeds had been as
(07:31):
good as your words. The Kidand the Wolf. A kid mounted on
a high rock bestowed all manner ofabuse upon a wolf on the ground below.
The wolf, looking up, replied, do not think, vain creature
that you annoy me. I regardthis ill language as coming not from you,
(07:55):
but from the place on which youstand. The Lion, the bear,
and the fox. A lion anda bear seized upon a kid at
the same moment and fought fiercely forits possession. When they had fearfully lacerated
each other and were faint from thelong combat, they lay down exhausted with
(08:18):
fatigue. A fox, who hadgone round them at a distance several times,
saw them both stretched on the ground, and the kid, lying untouched
in the middle, ran in betweenthem and seized the kid, scampering off
as fast as he could. Thelion and the bear saw him, but,
not being able to get up,said, woe betide us, that
(08:41):
we should have fought and belabored ourselvesonly to serve the turn of a fox.
It sometimes happens that one man hasall the toil and another all the
prophet the stag in the ox stall. A stag, hardly pressed by the
hounds and blind from fear to thedanger he was running into, took shelter
(09:07):
in a farmyard and hid himself ina shed among the oxen. An ox
gave him this kindly warning, O, unhappy creature, Why should you thus,
of your own accord, incur destructionand trust yourself in the house of
your enemy? The stag replied,Do you only suffer me, friend,
to stay where I am, andI will undertake to find some favorable opportunity
(09:33):
of effecting my escape. At theapproach of the evening, the herdsman came
to feed his cattle but did notsee the stag. The stag, congratulating
himself on his safety, began toexpress his sincere thanks to the oxen who
had kindly afforded him help in thehour of need. One of them again
answered him, we indeed wish youwell, but the danger is not over.
(09:58):
There is one other yet to passthrough this shed, who has,
as it were, a hundred eyes, and until he is come and gone,
your life is still in peril.At that moment, the master himself
entered, and, having had tocomplain that his oxen had not been properly
fed, he went up to theirracks and cried out, why is there
(10:20):
such a scarcity of fodder? Thereis not half enough straw for them to
lie on. Those lazy fellows havenot even swept the cobwebs away. While
he thus examined everything, he spiedthe antlers of the stag peeping out of
the straw. Summoning his laborers,he ordered that the stag should be killed.
(10:41):
What is safety for one is notalways safety for another. The eagle
and the jackdaw an eagle, flyingdown from his airy on a lofty rock,
seized upon a lamb and carried himaloft in his talons. A jackdaw
who witnessed the capture of the lamb, was stirred with envy and determined to
(11:05):
emulate the stress and flight of theeagle. He flew round with a great
word of its wings and settled upona large sheep, with the intention of
carrying it off. But his clawsbecoming entangled in his fleece, he was
unable to release himself, although hefluttered with his feathers as much as he
could. The shepherd, seeing whathad happened, ran up and caught him.
(11:30):
He at once clipped his wings,and taking him moment night, gave
him to his children. We shouldnot permit our ambition to lead us beyond
the limits of our power. Thethree tradesmen. A great city was besieged,
and its inhabitants were called together toconsider the best means of protecting it
(11:52):
from the enemy. A bricklayer presentearnestly recommended bricks, as it afforded the
materials for an effectual resistance. Acarpenter with equal energy proposed timber as providing
a preferable method of defense, uponwhich a courier stood up and said,
(12:13):
Sirs, I differ from you.Altogether, there was no material for resistance
equal to a covering of hides,and nothing so good as leather. Every
man for his trade. The dancingmonkeys. A prince had some monkeys trained
to dance. Being naturally great mimicsof men's actions, they showed themselves most
(12:39):
apt students, and when arrayed intheir rich clothes and masks, they danced
as well as any of the courtiers. The spectacle was often repeated with great
applause, till on one occasion acourtier, bent on mischief, took from
his pocket a handful of nuts andthrew them upon the stage. The monkeys,
(13:01):
at the sight of the nuts,forgot their dancing and became as indeed
they were monkeys instead of actors,and pulling off their masks and tearing their
robes, they fought with one anotherfor the nuts. The dancing spectacle thus
came to an end, amid thelaughter and ridicule of the audience. Those
(13:22):
who assume a character will betray themselvesby their actions. The ass and the
grasshopper. An ass, having heardsome grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted and
desiring to possess the same charms ofmelody. Demanded what sort of food they
lived on to give them such beautifulvoices, They replied the dew. The
(13:48):
ass resolved that he would live onlyon dew, and in a short time
died of hunger. Where one maylive, another may starve. The ass
in the lion's skin. An ass, having put on the lion's skin,
roamed about in the forest and amusedhimself by frightening all the foolish animals he
(14:11):
met with in his wanderings. Atlast, meeting a fox, he tried
to frighten him also, But thefox no sooner heard the sound of his
voice than he exclaimed. I mightpossibly have been frightened myself if I had
not heard your bray. No disguisewill hide one's true character. The boy
(14:35):
bathing. A boy bathing in ariver was in danger of being drowned.
He called out to a traveler passingby for help. The traveler, instead
of holding out a helping hand,stood up unconcernedly and scolded the boy for
his imprudence. Oh, sir,cried the youth. Pray help me now,
(14:56):
and scold me afterwards. Counsel withouthelp is useless. The cock and
the fox. The fox passing earlyone summer's morning, near a farm yard,
was caught in a springe which thefarmer had planted there for that end.
The cock, at a distance,saw what happened, and, hardly
(15:20):
yet daring to trust herself too nearso dangerous a foe, approached him cautiously
and peeped at him. Reynard addressedhimself to him, with all the designing
artifice imaginable, dear cousin, saidhe you see what an unfortunate accident has
befallen me here and all upon youraccount. For as I was creeping through
(15:43):
yonder hedge in my way homeward,I heard you crow, and was resolved
to ask you how you did beforeI went away any further. But I
met with this disaster, and thereforenow I must ask you for a knife
to cut this string, or atleast to seal my misfortune, till I
have gnawded asunder. Lecoq, seeinghow the case stood, made no reply,
(16:07):
but posted away as fast as hecould, and told the farmer who
came and killed the fox. Toaid the vicious is to become a partner
in their guilt. End of Sectionnine
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