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| The Fables are alphabetically arranged disregarding "The". The Images and Audio
are only accessible while reading the Fables in these sections and are noted accordingly.There are about 100 Fables in each of the first 4 sections. Note: I have added a flash mp3 player to all audio enabled fables. | |
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Section 1 ![]() | Androcles -> The Eagle and the Arrow |
Section 2 ![]() | The Eagle and the Jackdaw -> Jupiter Neptune Minerva and Momus |
Section 3 | The Kid and the Wolf -> The Rich Man and the Tanner |
Section 4 | The Rose and the Amaranth -> The Young Thief and His Mother |
| Section 5 | Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce - 245 Fables |
Section 6 | Fables of Jean De La Fontaine - More in process of being translated |
Selected Fables ![]() | 86 Fables selected for their ease of reading and concise moral understanding |
| Fairy Tales | Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen - 127 of them |
| Timeline | Graphic Timeline of 1000 BC - 500 BC |
| Timeline All | Java Panorama Graphic Timeline of 1000 BC - 1000 AD |
| A Kidnapped Santa Claus | A Short story by L. Frank Baum |
| The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | A medium length story by L. Frank Baum |
| A Christmas Carol | The story of Scrooge by Charles Dickens |
| Tallys: | Fables - 640 | Fontaine Fables - 21 |
| Images - 134 | Real Audio - 36 | Stories - 3 |
| Fairy Tales - 127 | . | . |
The Buffoon and the Countryman At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said: "Call that a pig s squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till tomorrow and I will show you what it's like." The audience laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. "You fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the squeals. Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing. |
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For more information about the fables and this site click Here.
For information on what a fable is and what makes it different from a tale or parable see
Selected Preface in Section 1. Be sure to see the full preface and the 'Life of Aesop' in
section 1. See also Aesop at Wikipedia,
Fable at Wikipedia.
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Your Narrator![]() Heather |
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Site Creation by![]() John R. Long |