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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN EAGLE, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree in company with a Kite. “Why,” said the Kite, “do I…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN ASS, having put on the Lion’s skin, roamed about in the forest and amused himself by frightening all the foolish an…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A THRUSH was feeding on a myrtle-tree and did not move from it because its berries were so delicious. A Fowler observe…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A PEASANT had in his garden an Apple-Tree which bore no fruit but only served as a harbor for the sparrows and grassho…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
SOME DOGS, finding the skin of a lion, began to tear it in pieces with their teeth. A Fox, seeing them, said, “If this…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path. One of them climbed up quickly into a tr…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man. He received them ki…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A TRAVELER wearied from a long journey lay down, overcome with fatigue, on the very brink of a deep well. Just as he w…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed sev…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw the…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proc…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A TORTOISE, lazily basking in the sun, complained to the sea-birds of her hard fate, that no one would teach her to fl…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
THE MICE summoned a council to decide how they might best devise means of warning themselves of the approach of their …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
SOME THIEVES broke into a house and found nothing but a Cock, whom they stole, and got off as fast as they could. Upon…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order t…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A CAT fell in love with a handsome young man, and entreated Venus to change her into the form of a woman. Venus consen…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsome…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN AMARANTH planted in a garden near a Rose-Tree, thus addressed it: “What a lovely flower is the Rose, a favourite al…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neigh…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A MAN and a Satyr once drank together in token of a bond of alliance being formed between them. One very cold wintry d…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation
Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
THE MONKEY, it is said, has two young ones at each birth. The Mother fondles one and nurtures it with the greatest aff…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A FATHER had one son and one daughter, the former remarkable for his good looks, the latter for her extraordinary ugli…
Project Gutenberg · Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation