Week Fourteen Reading Notes Part A - La Fontaine

Source Story: Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks by W. T. Larned (adapted from La Fontaine), illustrated by John Rae, 1918.
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The Fables of La Fontaine translated by Elizur Wright (1882).
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• "Foolish Animals"
• Tortoise and the Hare - the classic race
• Donkey in a lion's skin - everyone is scared until a man realizes the truth and leads the "lion" to work in the field
• Frog and Ox - the frog wants to be as big as the ox, but puffs himself too big and explodes
• "More Foolish Animals"
• The dog and his image - drops the meat in the water because of his reflection
• City mouse and country mouse - get together for dinner but realize they prefer their own homes
• Joko the Monkey and Mouser the cat - Mouser burns his paw to get Joko chestnuts from a fire, but doesn't get any himself
• "Foxes"
• Fox and grapes - wants the grapes but cannot reach them
• Fox and stork - fox invites the stork for dinner but serves her soup on a plate so she can't eat it with her beak; she returns the invite but serves food in an urn that she can reach into with her beak, but fox cannot
• "Birds"
• Raven and fox - raven has a morsel that the fox wants; fox flatters him into singing and therefore dropping the food, which the fox steals
• Raven and sheep - raven sees an eagle swoop down and catch prey, so tries it with a sheep, but ends up getting caught in the wool and then put in the shepherd's birdcage
• Heron and fish - heron thinks he is too good to eat the fish he sees, so he ends up with only a snail for dinner
• "Insects"
• Grasshopper and ant - classic story
• Dove and ant - dove saves ant from drowning, so ant saves dove from being killed for a pie
• Lion and gnat - a gnat bites a lion and makes him scratch himself with his claws, but then the gnat gets caught in a spider's web
• "Foolish People"
• Hen and golden eggs - hen lays a golden egg for greedy man, who cuts off her head to see if there's more gold inside
• Acorn and pumpkin - a country bumpkin thinks acorns should grow on the ground and pumpkins in trees, until an acorn falls from a tree onto his head
• Man and his donkey - man, son, and donkey going to the market try to please everyone but finally decide to do what they think is best
• "Foxes and Wolves"
• Fox, wolf, and well - a fox sees the reflection of the moon in a well and thinks it's cheese, so he goes down in a bucket before realizing his error; he tricks a wolf into taking the bucket on the other side of the pulley to pull him up
• Fox, wolf, and horse - a fox and wolf are sizing up a horse and ask its name, so it tells them to read the name on the bottom of its horseshoe - it ends up kicking four teeth out of the wolf's mouth
• "Horses"
• Horse and revenge - horse wants revenge on stag for winning a race, so horse gets human's help to hunt the stag; inevitably, horse ends up stuck as human's servant forever
• Horse and wolf - a wolf pretends to be a doctor wanting to help a horse, but gets kicked in the mouth instead
• "Dogs"
• Dog and wolf - a wolf sees how well-fed a dog is and wants in on the action, until he realizes it comes at the cost of his liberty
• Donkey and dog - a dog wants food from the basket on a donkey's back, but the donkey will not let him, so when a wolf comes to attack the donkey, the dog doesn't help him either
• "Cats"
• Cat becomes woman - man loves his cat so much that she turns into a human and he marries her, but she still wants to chase mice all the time
• Cat, eagle, and sow - the three share a tree for raising their young, but the cat convinces the other two that each is trying to kill the other, so they all die of hunger and the cat gets the tree to herself

Image of a "wolf in sheep's clothing" from Max Pixel