AESOP’S
FABLES AR RAN G E D BY DOL C I M NAM K HAO
TABLE OF CONTENT 7 THE CROW & THE PITCHER
15 THE GOOSE &
THE GOLDEN EGG
23 THE JACKDAW & THE PEACOCK
THE CROW & THE PITCHER 7
A Crow, half-dead with thirst, came upon a Pitcher which had once been full of water; but when the Crow put its beak into the mouth of the Pitcher he found that only very little water was left in it, and that he could not reach far enough down to get at it.
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He tried and he tried and he tried, but at last had to give up in despair. Then a thought came to him; he took a pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped it into the Pitcher once again.
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And then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that one into the Pitcher. Then he took another pebble and dropped that one into the Pitcher once more.
At last, at last, he saw the water mount up near him, and after casting in a few more pebbles he was able to quench his thirst and save his life.
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LITTLE BY LITTLE DOES THE TRICK
THE GOOSE & THE GOLDEN EGG 15
One day a countryman going to the nest of his Goose found there an egg all yellow and glittering. He looked confusingly at the goose as he bent over to pick up the egg.
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When he picked it up, it was as heavy as lead and he thought that he was going to throw it away, because he thought that a trick had been played upon him.
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Every morning the same thing happened and as the days went on he had an idea to sell these eggs for money. He soon became rich by selling the golden eggs.
Drunk with his power and wealth, and thinking that he could retrieve all of the golden eggs at once, he cut the goose open and killed it only to find that there was nothing inside.
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GREED OFT O’ER REACHES ITSELF
THE JACKDAW & THE PEACOCK 23
A jackdaw, puffed up with foolish pride as he found peacock feathers that had fallen on the ground. He picked up the feathers and put them on. He then tried to join the lovely peacock flock, scorning his fellow jackdaws, who were shocked.
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The peacocks, however, tore the feathers off that presumptuous bird and pecked at him until he went away.
After having been badly mauled by the peacocks, the jackdaw then sadly returned to his own folk, but he was cast out once again and suffered the pain of public humiliation, this time from his original flock.
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One of the jackdaws whom he had originally scorned said to him,“If you had been content to dwell among us, satisfied with what Nature had bestowed on you, then you would not have been humiliated by the peacocks, nor would your disgrace have met with our rebuff.”
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HOPE NOT TO SUCCEED IN BORROWED PLUMES
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