A fox, who was out in search of food, discovered a hen scratching for worms at the foot of a…

A traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and…

A swallow, conversing with a nightingale, advised her to quit the leafy coverts where she made her home, and to…

A hunter went out after game, and succeeded in catching a hare, which he was carrying home with him when…

A swallow was once boasting to a crow about her birth. “I was once a princess,” said she, “the daughter…

At the bidding of Jupiter, Prometheus set about the creation of man and the other animals. Jupiter, seeing that mankind,…

A woman, who had lately lost her husband, used to go every day to his grave and lament her loss.…

The pigeons in a certain dovecote were persecuted by a kite, who every now and then swooped down and carried…

When Jupiter was assigning the various gods their privileges, it so happened that Grief was not present with the rest:…

A dog was chasing a wolf, and as he ran he thought what a fine fellow he was, and what…