THE FALCON AND THE PARTRIDGE (From the Arabian Nights) THE MIRROR OF MATSUYANA (From the Japanese) PEGASUS DARTED DOWN ASLANT ST. NICHOLAS IN VAIN PHAETHON PULLED at the REINS PAGE Herbert N. Rudeen 195 THERE WAS A LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEP, AND HIS NAME WAS TOM THEY CAME UP WITH A POOR IRISH WOMAN BEES AND HIVES HARTHOVER PLACE ALL RAN AFTER TOM TOM LOOKED DOWN THE CLIFF THE OLD DAME LOOKED AT TOM TOM LOOKED INTO THE CLEAR WATER SIR JOHN SEARCHING FOR TOM TOM WAS NOW A WATER BABY Donn P. Crane 210 Donn P. Crane 217 Donn P. Crane 221 Donn P. Crane 226 Donn P. Crane 228 Donn P. Crane 234 Donn P. Crane 239 Donn P. Crane 244 Donn P. Crane 247 Donn P. Crane 253 Donn P. Crane 258 Donn P. Crane 298 Donn P. Crane 308 Donn P. Crane 318 Donn P. Crane 321 Donn P. Crane 339 Donn P. Crane 369 TOM ESCAPED THE OTTER THE SALMON, KING OF ALL THE FISH TOM ON THE BUOY . PORPOISES A LOBSTER ELLIE AND THE PROFESSOR "MY DEAR GOOD HUSBAND" "THOU HAST HAD THY SHARE OF LIFE' HE CAST THE FLASK INTO THE STREAM THE DWARF SHOOK THE DROPS INTO THE FLASK HE PUT ON SACKCLOTH AND ASHES THEN HAMAN WAS AFRAID PLUTO SEIZED PROSERPINA IN TIME'S SWING SO THE BARGAIN WAS MADE Arthur Henderson 380 Arthur Henderson 384 Herbert N. Rudeen 393 Iris Weddell White 396 Herbert N. Rudeen 400 Iris Weddell White 404 Donn P. Crane 409 Donn P. Crane 417 Donn P. Crane 424 Donn P. Crane 431 Donn P. Crane 434 Donn P. Crane 439 Arthur Henderson 452 Arthur Henderson 455 Arthur Henderson 461 Arthur Henderson 470 Herbert N. Rudeen 482 Mildred Lyon 486 M ESOP ANY centuries ago, more than six hundred years before Christ was born, there lived in Greece a man by the name of Esop. We do not know very much about him, and no one can tell exactly what he wrote, or even that he ever wrote anything. We know he was a slave and much wiser than his masters, but whether he was a fine, shapely man or a hunchback and a cripple we cannot be sure, for different people have written very differently about him. No matter what he was or how he lived, many, many stories are still told about him, and the greater part of the fables we all like to read are said to have been written or told by him, and everybody still calls them Esop's fables. Some of the stories told about him are curious indeed. Here are a few of them. In those days men were sold as slaves in the market, as cattle are sold now. One day Esop and two other men were put up at auction. Xanthus, a wealthy man, wanted a slave, and he said to the men: "What can you do?" The two men bragged large about the things they could do, for both wanted a rich master like Xanthus. "But what can you do?" said Xanthus, turning to Æsop. |