A dog, used to eating eggs, saw an oyster. Opening his mouth wide, he swallowed it with relish, thinking it was an egg. Soon after, he suffered great stomach pain and said, "I deserve this torment for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg."
Those who act without sufficient thought will often fall into unsuspected danger.
A wolf mistakes its elongated shadow at sunset for true s...
A hungry crow seizes a sleeping snake for a meal, but the...
A lark, curious about a fowler's claim of founding a city...
A cunning fox tries to flatter a grasshopper into coming ...
A man tricks the trees into giving him wood to make an ax...
A caged bird explains to a bat that she only sings at nig...
A greedy dog, mistaking his own reflection for another do...
A farmer trapped by a storm is forced to kill his livesto...
A trapped fox tricks a goat into jumping into a well by p...
A starving grasshopper begs ants for food in winter, havi...
A cunning jackal preys on a dove's chicks and a heron's a...
A vain crow loses her cheese to a cunning fox who flatter...
A cat, having caught a cock, seeks an excuse to eat him a...
A crow, envious of an eagle's easy capture of a lamb, att...
A pig's loud protest when captured highlights the differe...
A nearly blind woman agrees to pay a doctor only if cured...
A jackdaw disguises himself as a pigeon to get better foo...
A hungry lion, afraid of a bull's horns, uses flattery to...
A pomegranate and an apple-tree argue fiercely over whose...
A blacksmith criticizes his dog for sleeping during work ...