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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected. He inquired of her, “Who a…
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 WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A CERTAIN HOUSE was overrun with Mice. A Cat, discovering this, made her way into it and began to catch and eat them o…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. He managed by a sk…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A GREAT CITY was besieged, and its inhabitants were called together to consider the best means of protecting it from t…
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 LION, unable from old age and infirmities to provide himself with food by force, resolved to do so by artifice. He r…
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 SICK STAG lay down in a quiet corner of its pasture-ground. His companions came in great numbers to inquire after hi…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN ASS feeding in a meadow saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame. The Wolf, coming…
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 OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper a…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the othe…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A CERTAIN poor widow had one solitary Sheep. At shearing time, wishing to take his fleece and to avoid expense, she sh…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmo…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A LION was awakened from sleep by a Mouse running over his face. Rising up angrily, he caught him and was about to kil…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A MAN had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker. After a time he went to the dau…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life. A Swallow, observing what…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
ONCE UPON A TIME, when the Sun announced his intention to take a wife, the Frogs lifted up their voices in clamor to t…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing thei…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A WASP seated himself upon the head of a Snake and, striking him unceasingly with his stings, wounded him to death. Th…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
A YOUNG FAWN once said to his Mother, “You are larger than a dog, and swifter, and more used to running, and you have …
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
“WHY SHOULD there always be this fear and slaughter between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep. “Those evil-disposed Do…
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Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) · 古希腊寓言传统（汤森英译本）
THE BEASTS of the forest gave a splendid entertainment at which the Monkey stood up and danced. Having vastly delighte…
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