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Section ten of Aesop's Fables, A new translation written by
Azab 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 three
(00:23):
tradesmen the citizens of a certain city were debating about
the best material to use in the fortifications which were
about to be erected for the greater security of the town.
A carpenter got up and advised the use of wood,
which he said was readily procurable and easily worked. A
stonemason objected to wood on the grounds that it was
(00:46):
so inflammable, and recommended stones instead. Then a tanner got
on his legs and said, in my opinion, there's nothing
like leather. The moral of the story is every man
for himself. The Mouse and the Bull. A bull gave
(01:08):
chase to a mouse which had bitten him in the nose,
but the mouse was too quick for him and slipped
into a hole in the wall. The bull charged furiously
into the wall again and again until he was tired
out and sank down on the ground. Exhausted with his efforts,
When all was quiet, his mouse darted out and bit
(01:30):
him again. Beside himself with rage, he started to his feet,
but by that time the mouse was back in his
hole again, and the bull could do nothing but bellow
and fume in helpless anger. Presently he heard a shrill
little voice say from inside the wall, You big fellows
(01:50):
don't always have it your own way, you see. Sometimes
we little ones come off best. The moral of the
story is that the battle is not all to the strong.
The hare and the hound a hound startled a hair
(02:10):
from her warren and pursued her for some distance, but
as she was gradually getting away from him, he gave
up the chase. A rustic who had seen the race
met the hound as he was returning and taunted him
with his defeat. The little one was too much for you,
said he. Ah Well, said the hound. Don't forget. It's
(02:31):
one thing to be running for your dinner, but quite
another to be running for your life. The town mouse
and the country mouse. A town mouse and a country
mouse were acquaintances, and the country mouse one day invited
his friend to come and see him at his home
in the fields. The town mouse came, and they sat
(02:54):
down to a dinner of barley, corns and roots, the
latter of which had a distinctly earthly flavor. The fair
was not much to the taste of the guest, and
presently he broke out with my poor dear friend, you
live here no better than the ants. Now you should
just see how I fare. My ladder is a regular
(03:15):
horn of plenty. You must come and stay with me,
and I promise you shall live on the fat of
the land. So when he returned to town, he took
the country mouse with him and showed him into a
larder containing flour and oatmeal and figs and honey and dates.
The country mouse had never seen anything like it, and
(03:37):
sat down to enjoy the luxuries his friend provided. But
before they had well begun, the door of the larder
opened and someone came in. The two mice scampered often
hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole. Presently,
when all was quiet, they ventured out again, but someone
else came in, and off they scuttled again. Then this
(04:01):
was too much for the visitor. Good bye, said he.
I'm off You live in the lap of luxury. I
can see, but you are surrounded by dangers, whereas at
home I can enjoy my simple dinner of roots and
corn in peace. The Lion in the Bull A lion
(04:21):
saw a fine, fat bull pasturing amongst a herd of cattle,
and cast about for some means of getting him into
his clutches. So he sent him a word that he
was sacrificing a sheep, and asked if he would do
the lion the honor of dining with him. The bull
accepted the invitation, but on arriving at the lion's den,
(04:43):
he saw a great array of saucepans and spits, but
no sign of a sheep. So he turned on his
heel and walked quietly away. The lion called after him
in an injured tone to ask the reason, and the
bull turned round and said, I have reason enough. When
I saw all your preparations, it struck me at once
(05:05):
that the victim was to be a bull and not
a sheep. The moral of the story is the net
is spread in vain if it's in sight of the bird.
The wolf, the fox, and the ape. A wolf charged
a fox with theft, which he denied, and the case
(05:27):
was brought before an ape to be tried. When he
had heard the evidence on both sides, the ape gave
judgment as follows. I do not think he said that
you a wolf ever lost what you claim. But all
the same, I believe that you fox are guilty of
the theft in spite of all your denials. The moral
(05:50):
of the story is the dishonest get no credit even
if they act honestly. The eagle and the cox there
were two cocks in the same farmyard, and they fought
to decide who should be master. When the fight was over,
the beaten one went and hid himself in a dark corner,
(06:10):
while the victor flew up on to the roof of
the stables and crowed lustily. But an eagleist spied him
from high up in the sky and swooped down and
carried him off. Forthwith the other cock came out of
his corner and ruled the roost without a rival. The
moral of the story is pride comes before a fall.
(06:35):
The escaped jack doll. A man caught a jack dow
and tied a piece of string to one of its legs,
and then he gave it to his children for a pet.
But the jack dow didn't at all like having to
live with people. So after a while, when he seemed
to have become fairly tame and they didn't watch him
so closely, he slipped away and flew back to his
(06:56):
old haunts. Unfortunately, the string was still on his leg,
and before long it got entangled in the branches of
a tree, and the jack dog couldn't get free. Try
as he would, he saw it was all up with
him and cried in despair, alas in gaining my freedom,
I have lost my life. The Farmer and the Fox.
(07:21):
A farmer was greatly annoyed by a fox which came
prowling about his yard at night and carried off his fowls.
So he set a trap for him and caught him,
And in order to be revenged upon him, he tied
a bunch of tow to his tail and set fired
it and let him go as ill luck would have it. However,
the fox made straight for the fields where the corn
(07:44):
was standing, ripe and ready for cutting. It quickly caught
fire and was all burnt up, and the farmer lost
all of his harvest. More of this story is that
revenge is a two edged sword. Venus and the cat
(08:05):
a cat fell in love with a handsome young man
and begged the goddess Venus to change her into a woman.
Venus was very gracious about it, and changed her at
once into a beautiful maiden, whom the young man fell
in love with at first sight, and shortly afterwards they married.
(08:26):
One day, Venus thought she would like to see whether
the cat had changed her habits as well as her form,
so she let a mouse run loose in the room
where they were forgetting everything. The young woman had no
sooner seen the mouse than up she jumped and was
after it like a shot, at which the goddess was
so disgusted that she changed her back again into a cat.
(08:53):
The Crew and the Swan. A crow was filled with
envy on seeing the beautiful white plumage of a swan,
and thought it was due to the water in which
the swan constantly bathed and swam. So he left the
neighborhood of the altars, where he got his living by
picking up bits of the meat offered in sacrifice, and
(09:14):
he went and lived amongst the pools and streams. But
though he bathed and washed his feathers many times a day,
he didn't make them any whiter, and at last he
died of hunger into the bargain. The moral of the
story is, you may change your habits, but not your nature.
(09:37):
The stag with one eye. A stag blind of one eye,
was grazing close to the sea shore, and kept his
sound eye turned towards the land so as to be
able to perceive the prooch of the hounds, while the
blind eye he turned towards the sea, never suspecting that
any danger would threaten him from that quarter. As it
(09:58):
fell out, however, some sailors coasting along the shore spied
him shot an arrow at him, by which he was
mortally wounded. As he lay dying, he said to himself, wretch,
that I am I bethought me of the dangers of
the land, whence none assailed me. But I fear no
(10:20):
peril from the sea. Yet thence has come my ruin.
The moral of the story is misfortune often assails us
from an unexpected quarter. The fly and the draft mule.
A fly sat on one of the shafts of a
(10:40):
cart and said to the mule who was pulling it,
how slow are you do mean your pace? Or I
shall have to use my sting as a good The
mule was not in the least disturbed. Behind me in
the cart, said he sets my master. He holds the reins,
and fled me with his whip, and him I obey.
(11:02):
But I don't want any of your impertinence. I know
when I made oddle, and when I may not. The
cock and the jewel. A cock scratching the ground for
something to eat, turned up a jewel that had by
chance been dropped there. Ho said he a fine thing,
(11:25):
you are, no doubt, and had your owner found you,
great would his joy have been. But for me give
me a single grain of corn before all the jewels
in the world. The Wolf and the shepherd. A wolf
hung about near a flock of sheep for a long time,
(11:46):
but made no attempt to molest them. The shepherd at
first kept a sharp eye on him, for he naturally
thought he made mischief, But as time went by and
the wolf showed no inclination to meddle with the flock,
he began to look upon him more as a protector
than as an enemy, And when one day some errand
took him to the city, he felt no uneasiness at
(12:08):
leaving the wolf with the sheep. But as soon as
his back was turned, the wolf attacked them and killed
a greater number. When the shepherd returned and saw the
havoc that the wolf had wrought, he cried, it serves
me right for trusting my flock to a wolf. End
of Section ten.
Section ten of Aesop's Fables, A new translation written by
Azab 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 three
(00:23):
tradesmen the citizens of a certain city were debating about
the best material to use in the fortifications which were
about to be erected for the greater security of the town.
A carpenter got up and advised the use of wood,
which he said was readily procurable and easily worked. A
stonemason objected to wood on the grounds that it was
(00:46):
so inflammable, and recommended stones instead. Then a tanner got
on his legs and said, in my opinion, there's nothing
like leather. The moral of the story is every man
for himself. The Mouse and the Bull. A bull gave
(01:08):
chase to a mouse which had bitten him in the nose,
but the mouse was too quick for him and slipped
into a hole in the wall. The bull charged furiously
into the wall again and again until he was tired
out and sank down on the ground. Exhausted with his efforts,
When all was quiet, his mouse darted out and bit
(01:30):
him again. Beside himself with rage, he started to his feet,
but by that time the mouse was back in his
hole again, and the bull could do nothing but bellow
and fume in helpless anger. Presently he heard a shrill
little voice say from inside the wall, You big fellows
(01:50):
don't always have it your own way, you see. Sometimes
we little ones come off best. The moral of the
story is that the battle is not all to the strong.
The hare and the hound a hound startled a hair
(02:10):
from her warren and pursued her for some distance, but
as she was gradually getting away from him, he gave
up the chase. A rustic who had seen the race
met the hound as he was returning and taunted him
with his defeat. The little one was too much for you,
said he. Ah Well, said the hound. Don't forget. It's
(02:31):
one thing to be running for your dinner, but quite
another to be running for your life. The town mouse
and the country mouse. A town mouse and a country
mouse were acquaintances, and the country mouse one day invited
his friend to come and see him at his home
in the fields. The town mouse came, and they sat
(02:54):
down to a dinner of barley, corns and roots, the
latter of which had a distinctly earthly flavor. The fair
was not much to the taste of the guest, and
presently he broke out with my poor dear friend, you
live here no better than the ants. Now you should
just see how I fare. My ladder is a regular
(03:15):
horn of plenty. You must come and stay with me,
and I promise you shall live on the fat of
the land. So when he returned to town, he took
the country mouse with him and showed him into a
larder containing flour and oatmeal and figs and honey and dates.
The country mouse had never seen anything like it, and
(03:37):
sat down to enjoy the luxuries his friend provided. But
before they had well begun, the door of the larder
opened and someone came in. The two mice scampered often
hid themselves in a narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable hole. Presently,
when all was quiet, they ventured out again, but someone
else came in, and off they scuttled again. Then this
(04:01):
was too much for the visitor. Good bye, said he.
I'm off You live in the lap of luxury. I
can see, but you are surrounded by dangers, whereas at
home I can enjoy my simple dinner of roots and
corn in peace. The Lion in the Bull A lion
(04:21):
saw a fine, fat bull pasturing amongst a herd of cattle,
and cast about for some means of getting him into
his clutches. So he sent him a word that he
was sacrificing a sheep, and asked if he would do
the lion the honor of dining with him. The bull
accepted the invitation, but on arriving at the lion's den,
(04:43):
he saw a great array of saucepans and spits, but
no sign of a sheep. So he turned on his
heel and walked quietly away. The lion called after him
in an injured tone to ask the reason, and the
bull turned round and said, I have reason enough. When
I saw all your preparations, it struck me at once
(05:05):
that the victim was to be a bull and not
a sheep. The moral of the story is the net
is spread in vain if it's in sight of the bird.
The wolf, the fox, and the ape. A wolf charged
a fox with theft, which he denied, and the case
(05:27):
was brought before an ape to be tried. When he
had heard the evidence on both sides, the ape gave
judgment as follows. I do not think he said that
you a wolf ever lost what you claim. But all
the same, I believe that you fox are guilty of
the theft in spite of all your denials. The moral
(05:50):
of the story is the dishonest get no credit even
if they act honestly. The eagle and the cox there
were two cocks in the same farmyard, and they fought
to decide who should be master. When the fight was over,
the beaten one went and hid himself in a dark corner,
(06:10):
while the victor flew up on to the roof of
the stables and crowed lustily. But an eagleist spied him
from high up in the sky and swooped down and
carried him off. Forthwith the other cock came out of
his corner and ruled the roost without a rival. The
moral of the story is pride comes before a fall.
(06:35):
The escaped jack doll. A man caught a jack dow
and tied a piece of string to one of its legs,
and then he gave it to his children for a pet.
But the jack dow didn't at all like having to
live with people. So after a while, when he seemed
to have become fairly tame and they didn't watch him
so closely, he slipped away and flew back to his
(06:56):
old haunts. Unfortunately, the string was still on his leg,
and before long it got entangled in the branches of
a tree, and the jack dog couldn't get free. Try
as he would, he saw it was all up with
him and cried in despair, alas in gaining my freedom,
I have lost my life. The Farmer and the Fox.
(07:21):
A farmer was greatly annoyed by a fox which came
prowling about his yard at night and carried off his fowls.
So he set a trap for him and caught him,
And in order to be revenged upon him, he tied
a bunch of tow to his tail and set fired
it and let him go as ill luck would have it. However,
the fox made straight for the fields where the corn
(07:44):
was standing, ripe and ready for cutting. It quickly caught
fire and was all burnt up, and the farmer lost
all of his harvest. More of this story is that
revenge is a two edged sword. Venus and the cat
(08:05):
a cat fell in love with a handsome young man
and begged the goddess Venus to change her into a woman.
Venus was very gracious about it, and changed her at
once into a beautiful maiden, whom the young man fell
in love with at first sight, and shortly afterwards they married.
(08:26):
One day, Venus thought she would like to see whether
the cat had changed her habits as well as her form,
so she let a mouse run loose in the room
where they were forgetting everything. The young woman had no
sooner seen the mouse than up she jumped and was
after it like a shot, at which the goddess was
so disgusted that she changed her back again into a cat.
(08:53):
The Crew and the Swan. A crow was filled with
envy on seeing the beautiful white plumage of a swan,
and thought it was due to the water in which
the swan constantly bathed and swam. So he left the
neighborhood of the altars, where he got his living by
picking up bits of the meat offered in sacrifice, and
(09:14):
he went and lived amongst the pools and streams. But
though he bathed and washed his feathers many times a day,
he didn't make them any whiter, and at last he
died of hunger into the bargain. The moral of the
story is, you may change your habits, but not your nature.
(09:37):
The stag with one eye. A stag blind of one eye,
was grazing close to the sea shore, and kept his
sound eye turned towards the land so as to be
able to perceive the prooch of the hounds, while the
blind eye he turned towards the sea, never suspecting that
any danger would threaten him from that quarter. As it
(09:58):
fell out, however, some sailors coasting along the shore spied
him shot an arrow at him, by which he was
mortally wounded. As he lay dying, he said to himself, wretch,
that I am I bethought me of the dangers of
the land, whence none assailed me. But I fear no
(10:20):
peril from the sea. Yet thence has come my ruin.
The moral of the story is misfortune often assails us
from an unexpected quarter. The fly and the draft mule.
A fly sat on one of the shafts of a
(10:40):
cart and said to the mule who was pulling it,
how slow are you do mean your pace? Or I
shall have to use my sting as a good The
mule was not in the least disturbed. Behind me in
the cart, said he sets my master. He holds the reins,
and fled me with his whip, and him I obey.
(11:02):
But I don't want any of your impertinence. I know
when I made oddle, and when I may not. The
cock and the jewel. A cock scratching the ground for
something to eat, turned up a jewel that had by
chance been dropped there. Ho said he a fine thing,
(11:25):
you are, no doubt, and had your owner found you,
great would his joy have been. But for me give
me a single grain of corn before all the jewels
in the world. The Wolf and the shepherd. A wolf
hung about near a flock of sheep for a long time,
(11:46):
but made no attempt to molest them. The shepherd at
first kept a sharp eye on him, for he naturally
thought he made mischief, But as time went by and
the wolf showed no inclination to meddle with the flock,
he began to look upon him more as a protector
than as an enemy, And when one day some errand
took him to the city, he felt no uneasiness at
(12:08):
leaving the wolf with the sheep. But as soon as
his back was turned, the wolf attacked them and killed
a greater number. When the shepherd returned and saw the
havoc that the wolf had wrought, he cried, it serves
me right for trusting my flock to a wolf. End
of Section ten.
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