A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Spanning from Sumer to the present day few literary genres show greater continuity throughout their history than the fable. Historical evidence reaching as far

The stories which are given in the following pages are for the most part those which I have found to be best liked by the children to whom I have told these and

This is the second of three volumes covering the long history of the fable from Sumer to the present day. Historical evidence reaching as far back as Antiquity,