The little child's fable book, arranged in words of 1, 2, and 3 syllables. (Taken from The ladder to learning).1868 |
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... laughed at the Crow for want of sense . MORAL . The way which most rogues take to cheat fools or vain folks is , to praise them as much as they can , and so seem to be their best friends . FABLE XIV . THE FOX AND THE GRAPES . IN THE ...
... laughed at the Crow for want of sense . MORAL . The way which most rogues take to cheat fools or vain folks is , to praise them as much as they can , and so seem to be their best friends . FABLE XIV . THE FOX AND THE GRAPES . IN THE ...
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... laughed at them , and called them all the fools he could think of ; and this he did many times . But at last the Wolf did come in a great rage , and the young rogue then cried out for help in earnest , as loud as he could . The people ...
... laughed at them , and called them all the fools he could think of ; and this he did many times . But at last the Wolf did come in a great rage , and the young rogue then cried out for help in earnest , as loud as he could . The people ...
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... laughed as loud as the rest of them . ' Ha ! ha ! ha ! ' said he , ' how could I expect to keep the hair of other people upon my head , when I could not persuade my own to stay there ? ' MORAL . The surest way to turn off the edge of a ...
... laughed as loud as the rest of them . ' Ha ! ha ! ha ! ' said he , ' how could I expect to keep the hair of other people upon my head , when I could not persuade my own to stay there ? ' MORAL . The surest way to turn off the edge of a ...
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... impose on the unwary , yet when once he ventures to try his craft upon those who have seen the world , he is commonly laughed at for his pains . FABLE XIV . THE FLY AND THE MULE . A THE LITTLE CHILD'S FABLE BOOK . ILI.
... impose on the unwary , yet when once he ventures to try his craft upon those who have seen the world , he is commonly laughed at for his pains . FABLE XIV . THE FLY AND THE MULE . A THE LITTLE CHILD'S FABLE BOOK . ILI.
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... laughed at the old gentleman for a madman . As soon as the Sage per- ceived it , who was much fitter to ridicule others than to become an object of ridicule himself , he placed an unstrung bow in the middle of the road , and then ...
... laughed at the old gentleman for a madman . As soon as the Sage per- ceived it , who was much fitter to ridicule others than to become an object of ridicule himself , he placed an unstrung bow in the middle of the road , and then ...
Common terms and phrases
Æsop Bear beast bird Boar Bull cloth Cock coloured CONSISTING OF WORDS creature cried Crow dear Eagle eyes FABLE BOOK fable shows FABLE VII FABLE XI FABLE XIX FABLE XVIII FABLE XXI Farmer fast Fcap fell fighting flew fool forest Frog gilt edges glad Goat Goose harm head heard heart honest Horse ill-luck Jester laughed legs load look master Mastiff meal MORAL Mouse Mule neck neighbours nimble NOBLE LION once oxen pack of hounds pains poor Ass poor Lamb Post 8vo pray pride proud Reynard shame Sheep silly skin sly Fox soon speak stood Stork Story Super-royal 16mo SWAIN SYLLABLES tail tell thief thing THOMAS HOOD thought told took tree trick vile VIPER WEASEL Wolf Wolves WORDS NOT EXCEEDING wretch young Fox young Lion young rogue
Popular passages
Page 80 - Bull of mine, and I should be glad to know how I am to make you reparation.
Page 67 - George, do you get a couple of good sickles ready against to-morrow morning, and we will even reap the corn ourselves." When the young ones told their mother this,
Page 66 - hold your silly tongues ; for if the old farmer depends upon his friends and his neighbors, you may take my word for it, that his wheat will not be reaped tomorrow.
Page 56 - I am almost frightened to death ! I have seen the most extraordinary creature that ever was. He has a fierce look, and struts about upon two legs , a strange piece of flesh grows on his head, and another under his throat, as red as blood : he flapped his arms against his sides, as if he intended to rise into the air; and stretching out his head, he opened a...
Page 72 - Upon which he continued to nibble first at one piece and then the other, till the poor cats, seeing their cheese gradually diminishing, entreated him to give himself no farther trouble, but deliver to them what remained. — "Not so fast, I beseech you, friends...
Page 72 - I beseech you, friends," replied the monkey ; " we owe justice to ourselves as well as to you ; what remains is due to me in right of my office.
Page 67 - When the young ones told ihor mother this, " Now, my Hale dears," said she, "we must be gone indeed, for when a man takes it in hand to do his own work himself, you may depend upon it that it will be done.