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Section thirteen of Azup's Fables, a new translation written by
Azip and translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. This is
a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
This section has been read by Rosslyn Carlyle. The Lion
(00:24):
and the Hare a lion found a hare sleeping in
her form and was just going to devour her when
he caught sight of a passing stag dropping the hare.
He at once made for the bigger game, but finding
after a long chase that he could not overtake the stag,
he abandoned the attempt and came back for the hare.
(00:44):
When he reached the spot, however, he found she was
nowhere to be seen, and he had to go without
his dinner. Nay, it serves me right, he said. I
should have been content with what I'd got instead of
hankering after a better prize. The Wolves and the dogs
(01:04):
once upon a time, the wolves said to the dogs,
why should we continue to be enemies any longer? You
are very like us in most ways. The main difference
between us is one of training. Only we live a
life of freedom. But you are enslave to mankind, who
beat you and put heavy collars round your necks, and
compel you to keep watch over their flocks and herds
(01:26):
for them, and to crown all They give you nothing
but boons to eat. Don't put up with it any longer.
Bad over the flocks to us, and we will all
live on the fat of the land and face together.
The dogs allowed themselves to be persuaded by these words,
and accompanied the wolves into their den. But no sooner
were they well inside than the wolves set upon them
(01:49):
and tore them to pieces. The moral of the story
is that traitors richly deserve their fate. The Bull in
the Calf, a fool drown bull, was struggling to force
his bulk through the narrow entrance to a cow house
where his stall was, when a young calf came up
and said him, if you'll step aside a moment, I'll
(02:12):
show you the way to get through. The bull turned
upon him, unamused. Luke, I knew that way, said he
before you were born. The trees and the Axe a
woodsman went into the forest and begged of the trees
the favor of a handle for his axe. The principal
(02:35):
trees at once agreed to so modest a request, and
unhesitatingly gave him a young ash sapling, out of which
he fashioned the handle he desired. No sooner had he
done so, than he set to work to fell the
noblest trees in the wood. When they saw the use
to which he was putting their gift, they cried, alas, alas,
(02:56):
we are undone, But we are ourselves to blame. The
little we gave this cost us all. Had we not
sacrificed the rights of the ash, we might ourselves have
stood for ages. The astronomer. There was once an astronomer
whose habit it was to go out at night and
(03:18):
observe the stars. One night, as he was walking about
outside the town gates, gazing up, absorbed into the sky,
and not looking where he was going, he fell into
a dry well. As he lay there, groaning, some one
passing by heard him, and, coming to the edge of
the well, looked down, and, on learning what had happened, said,
(03:39):
if you really mean to say that you were looking
so hard at the sky that you didn't even see
where your feet were carrying you along the ground, it
appears to me that you deserve all you've got. The
laborer and the snake. A laborer's little son was bidding
by a snow and died of the wound. The father
(04:03):
was beside himself with grief, and in his anger against
the snake, he caught up an axe and went and
stood close to the snake's hole and watched for a
chance of killing it. Presently, the snake came out, and
the man named a blue at it, but only succeeded
in cutting off the tip of its tail before it
wriggled in again. He then tried to get it to
(04:23):
come out a second time, pretending that he wished to
make up the quarrel, But the snake said, I can
never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor
you mine because of your lost child. And the moral
of the story is that injuries are never forgotten in
(04:45):
the presence of those who caused them. The cage bird
and the bat. A singing bird was confined in a
cage which hung outside a window and had a way
of singing at night when all the other birds were asleep.
One night, a bat came along and clung to the
(05:08):
bars of the cage and asked the bird why she
was silent by day, and sang only at night. I
have a very good reason for doing so, said the bird.
It was once when I was singing in the daytime
that a fowler was attracted by my voice and set
his nets for me and caught me. Since then, I
have never sung except by night. But the bat replied,
(05:31):
it is no use your doing that now when you
are a prisoner. Oh, if only you had done so
before you were caught, you might still have been free.
Moral of the story is that precautions are useless. After
the event, the ass and his purchaser, a man who
(05:53):
wanted to buy an ass, went to market, and, coming
across a likely looking beast, arranged with the owner that
he should be allowed to take him home on trial
to see what he was like. When he reached home,
he put the ass into his stable along with the
other asses. The newcomer took a look around and immediately
went and chose a place next to the laziest and
(06:13):
goodreediest beast in the stable. When the master saw this,
he put a halter on him at once and led
him off and handed him over to his owner. Again.
The latter was a good deal Surprised to see him
back so soon and said, why do you mean to
say you have tested him already? I don't want to
(06:33):
put him through any more tests, replied the other, I
could see what sort of beast he is from the
companion he chose for himself. The moral of the story
is that a man is known by the company he keeps.
The Kid and the Wolf. A kid strayed from the
(06:56):
flock and was chased by a wolf. When he saw
he must be caught, he turned around and said to
the wolf, I know, sir, that I can't escape being
eaten by you, and so as my life is bound
to be short, I pray you let it be as
merry as may be. Will you not play me a
tune to dance to before I die? The wolf saw
no objection to having some music before his dinner, so
(07:20):
he took out his pipe and began to play while
the kid danced before him. Before many minutes were past,
the gods who guarded the flock heard the sound and
came up to see what was going on. They no
sooner clapped eyes on the wolf than they gave chase
and drew him away. As he ran off, he turned
and said to the kid, it's what I thoroughly deserve
(07:41):
my trade as the butcher's, and I had no business
to turn piper to please you. The debtor and his sound.
A man of Athens fell into debt and was pressed
for the money by his creditor. But he had no
means of paying at the time, so he begged for
a delay, but the creditor refused and said he must
(08:04):
pay at once. Then the debtor fetched a sau, the
only one he had, and took her to market to
offer her for sale. It happened that his creditor was
there too. Presently a buyer came along and asked if
the sau produced good letters. Oh yes, said the debtor,
very fine ones. And the remarkable thing is that she
(08:25):
could use his females at the mysteries, and males at
the Panathenia. These were festivals, and the Athenians always sacrifice
a saw at one and a bore at the other,
whilst at the Dionysia they sacrifice a kid. Hearing what
the man had said, the creditor, who was standing by,
put in, don't be surprised, sir, why still better at
(08:49):
the Dionesia, this sau has kids. The bald huntsman. A
man who had lost all his hair took to wearing
a wig, and one day he went out hunting. It
was blowing rather hard at the time, and he hadn't
gone far before a gust of wind caught his hat
(09:10):
and carried it off and his wig too much to
the amusement of the hunt. But he quite entered into
the joke, and said, ah, well to hear that wig
is made of didn't stick to the head on which
it grew, so it's no wonder it would stick to mine.
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull. A herdsman was tending
(09:32):
his cattle when he missed a young bull, one of
the finest of the herd. He went at once to
look for him, but meeting with no success in his search,
he made a vow that if he should discover the thief,
he would sacrifice a calf to Jupiter. Continuing his search,
he entered a thicket where he presently espied a lion
(09:53):
devouring the lost bull. Terrified with fear, he raised his
hands to heaven and cried, Great Jupiter. I vowed I
would sacrifice a calf to thee if I should discover
the thief. But now a full grown bull, I promised
thee if only I myself escape unhurt from his clutches.
(10:16):
The mule. One morning, a mule, who had too much
to eat and too little to do, began to think
himself a very fine fellow indeed, and frist about, saying,
my father was undoubtedly a high spirited horse, and I
take after him entirely. But very soon afterwards he was
put into the harness and compelled to go a very
(10:39):
long way with a heavy load behind him. At the
end of the day, exhausted by his unusual exertions, he
said dejectedly to himself, I must have been mistaken about
my father. He can only have been an ass after all.
The hound in the fall Us. A hound rooming in
(11:02):
the forest spied a lion, and, being well used to
lesser game, gave chase, thinking he would make a fine quarry. Presently,
the lion perceived that he was being pursued, so, stopping short,
he rounded on his pursuer and gave a loud roar.
The hound immediately turned tail and fled. A fox, seeing
(11:26):
him running away, jeered at him and said, oh, there
goes the coward who chased the lion and ran away
the moment he roared the father and his daughters. A
man had two daughters, one of whom he gave in
marriage to a gardener and the other to a potter.
(11:49):
After a time, he thought he would go and see
how they were getting on. At first, he went to
the gardener's wife. He asked her how she was and
how things were going with herself and her husband. She replied,
on the whole they were doing very well, But she continued,
I do wish we could have some good, heavy rain.
The garden wants it badly. Then he went on to
(12:12):
the potter's wife and made the same inquiries of her.
She replied that she and her husband had nothing to
complain of, but she went on, I do wish we
could have some nice dry weather, you know, to try
the pottery. Her father looked at her with a humorous
expression on his face. You want dry weather, he said,
(12:32):
and your sister wants rain. I was going to ask
in my prayers that your wishes should be granted, but
now it strikes me I had better not refer to
the subject. End of Section thirteen
Section thirteen of Azup's Fables, a new translation written by
Azip and translated by V. S. Vernon Jones. This is
a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org.
This section has been read by Rosslyn Carlyle. The Lion
(00:24):
and the Hare a lion found a hare sleeping in
her form and was just going to devour her when
he caught sight of a passing stag dropping the hare.
He at once made for the bigger game, but finding
after a long chase that he could not overtake the stag,
he abandoned the attempt and came back for the hare.
(00:44):
When he reached the spot, however, he found she was
nowhere to be seen, and he had to go without
his dinner. Nay, it serves me right, he said. I
should have been content with what I'd got instead of
hankering after a better prize. The Wolves and the dogs
(01:04):
once upon a time, the wolves said to the dogs,
why should we continue to be enemies any longer? You
are very like us in most ways. The main difference
between us is one of training. Only we live a
life of freedom. But you are enslave to mankind, who
beat you and put heavy collars round your necks, and
compel you to keep watch over their flocks and herds
(01:26):
for them, and to crown all They give you nothing
but boons to eat. Don't put up with it any longer.
Bad over the flocks to us, and we will all
live on the fat of the land and face together.
The dogs allowed themselves to be persuaded by these words,
and accompanied the wolves into their den. But no sooner
were they well inside than the wolves set upon them
(01:49):
and tore them to pieces. The moral of the story
is that traitors richly deserve their fate. The Bull in
the Calf, a fool drown bull, was struggling to force
his bulk through the narrow entrance to a cow house
where his stall was, when a young calf came up
and said him, if you'll step aside a moment, I'll
(02:12):
show you the way to get through. The bull turned
upon him, unamused. Luke, I knew that way, said he
before you were born. The trees and the Axe a
woodsman went into the forest and begged of the trees
the favor of a handle for his axe. The principal
(02:35):
trees at once agreed to so modest a request, and
unhesitatingly gave him a young ash sapling, out of which
he fashioned the handle he desired. No sooner had he
done so, than he set to work to fell the
noblest trees in the wood. When they saw the use
to which he was putting their gift, they cried, alas, alas,
(02:56):
we are undone, But we are ourselves to blame. The
little we gave this cost us all. Had we not
sacrificed the rights of the ash, we might ourselves have
stood for ages. The astronomer. There was once an astronomer
whose habit it was to go out at night and
(03:18):
observe the stars. One night, as he was walking about
outside the town gates, gazing up, absorbed into the sky,
and not looking where he was going, he fell into
a dry well. As he lay there, groaning, some one
passing by heard him, and, coming to the edge of
the well, looked down, and, on learning what had happened, said,
(03:39):
if you really mean to say that you were looking
so hard at the sky that you didn't even see
where your feet were carrying you along the ground, it
appears to me that you deserve all you've got. The
laborer and the snake. A laborer's little son was bidding
by a snow and died of the wound. The father
(04:03):
was beside himself with grief, and in his anger against
the snake, he caught up an axe and went and
stood close to the snake's hole and watched for a
chance of killing it. Presently, the snake came out, and
the man named a blue at it, but only succeeded
in cutting off the tip of its tail before it
wriggled in again. He then tried to get it to
(04:23):
come out a second time, pretending that he wished to
make up the quarrel, But the snake said, I can
never be your friend because of my lost tail, nor
you mine because of your lost child. And the moral
of the story is that injuries are never forgotten in
(04:45):
the presence of those who caused them. The cage bird
and the bat. A singing bird was confined in a
cage which hung outside a window and had a way
of singing at night when all the other birds were asleep.
One night, a bat came along and clung to the
(05:08):
bars of the cage and asked the bird why she
was silent by day, and sang only at night. I
have a very good reason for doing so, said the bird.
It was once when I was singing in the daytime
that a fowler was attracted by my voice and set
his nets for me and caught me. Since then, I
have never sung except by night. But the bat replied,
(05:31):
it is no use your doing that now when you
are a prisoner. Oh, if only you had done so
before you were caught, you might still have been free.
Moral of the story is that precautions are useless. After
the event, the ass and his purchaser, a man who
(05:53):
wanted to buy an ass, went to market, and, coming
across a likely looking beast, arranged with the owner that
he should be allowed to take him home on trial
to see what he was like. When he reached home,
he put the ass into his stable along with the
other asses. The newcomer took a look around and immediately
went and chose a place next to the laziest and
(06:13):
goodreediest beast in the stable. When the master saw this,
he put a halter on him at once and led
him off and handed him over to his owner. Again.
The latter was a good deal Surprised to see him
back so soon and said, why do you mean to
say you have tested him already? I don't want to
(06:33):
put him through any more tests, replied the other, I
could see what sort of beast he is from the
companion he chose for himself. The moral of the story
is that a man is known by the company he keeps.
The Kid and the Wolf. A kid strayed from the
(06:56):
flock and was chased by a wolf. When he saw
he must be caught, he turned around and said to
the wolf, I know, sir, that I can't escape being
eaten by you, and so as my life is bound
to be short, I pray you let it be as
merry as may be. Will you not play me a
tune to dance to before I die? The wolf saw
no objection to having some music before his dinner, so
(07:20):
he took out his pipe and began to play while
the kid danced before him. Before many minutes were past,
the gods who guarded the flock heard the sound and
came up to see what was going on. They no
sooner clapped eyes on the wolf than they gave chase
and drew him away. As he ran off, he turned
and said to the kid, it's what I thoroughly deserve
(07:41):
my trade as the butcher's, and I had no business
to turn piper to please you. The debtor and his sound.
A man of Athens fell into debt and was pressed
for the money by his creditor. But he had no
means of paying at the time, so he begged for
a delay, but the creditor refused and said he must
(08:04):
pay at once. Then the debtor fetched a sau, the
only one he had, and took her to market to
offer her for sale. It happened that his creditor was
there too. Presently a buyer came along and asked if
the sau produced good letters. Oh yes, said the debtor,
very fine ones. And the remarkable thing is that she
(08:25):
could use his females at the mysteries, and males at
the Panathenia. These were festivals, and the Athenians always sacrifice
a saw at one and a bore at the other,
whilst at the Dionysia they sacrifice a kid. Hearing what
the man had said, the creditor, who was standing by,
put in, don't be surprised, sir, why still better at
(08:49):
the Dionesia, this sau has kids. The bald huntsman. A
man who had lost all his hair took to wearing
a wig, and one day he went out hunting. It
was blowing rather hard at the time, and he hadn't
gone far before a gust of wind caught his hat
(09:10):
and carried it off and his wig too much to
the amusement of the hunt. But he quite entered into
the joke, and said, ah, well to hear that wig
is made of didn't stick to the head on which
it grew, so it's no wonder it would stick to mine.
The Herdsman and the Lost Bull. A herdsman was tending
(09:32):
his cattle when he missed a young bull, one of
the finest of the herd. He went at once to
look for him, but meeting with no success in his search,
he made a vow that if he should discover the thief,
he would sacrifice a calf to Jupiter. Continuing his search,
he entered a thicket where he presently espied a lion
(09:53):
devouring the lost bull. Terrified with fear, he raised his
hands to heaven and cried, Great Jupiter. I vowed I
would sacrifice a calf to thee if I should discover
the thief. But now a full grown bull, I promised
thee if only I myself escape unhurt from his clutches.
(10:16):
The mule. One morning, a mule, who had too much
to eat and too little to do, began to think
himself a very fine fellow indeed, and frist about, saying,
my father was undoubtedly a high spirited horse, and I
take after him entirely. But very soon afterwards he was
put into the harness and compelled to go a very
(10:39):
long way with a heavy load behind him. At the
end of the day, exhausted by his unusual exertions, he
said dejectedly to himself, I must have been mistaken about
my father. He can only have been an ass after all.
The hound in the fall Us. A hound rooming in
(11:02):
the forest spied a lion, and, being well used to
lesser game, gave chase, thinking he would make a fine quarry. Presently,
the lion perceived that he was being pursued, so, stopping short,
he rounded on his pursuer and gave a loud roar.
The hound immediately turned tail and fled. A fox, seeing
(11:26):
him running away, jeered at him and said, oh, there
goes the coward who chased the lion and ran away
the moment he roared the father and his daughters. A
man had two daughters, one of whom he gave in
marriage to a gardener and the other to a potter.
(11:49):
After a time, he thought he would go and see
how they were getting on. At first, he went to
the gardener's wife. He asked her how she was and
how things were going with herself and her husband. She replied,
on the whole they were doing very well, But she continued,
I do wish we could have some good, heavy rain.
The garden wants it badly. Then he went on to
(12:12):
the potter's wife and made the same inquiries of her.
She replied that she and her husband had nothing to
complain of, but she went on, I do wish we
could have some nice dry weather, you know, to try
the pottery. Her father looked at her with a humorous
expression on his face. You want dry weather, he said,
(12:32):
and your sister wants rain. I was going to ask
in my prayers that your wishes should be granted, but
now it strikes me I had better not refer to
the subject. End of Section thirteen
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