Once upon a time a Town mouse went on a visit to his cousin in the village. The Village Mouse loved his town cousin made him heartily welcome. Beans and meat, cheese and bread, were all he had to offer, but he offered them freely. The Town Mouse rather turned up his long nose at this village fare, and said: "I cannot understand, Cousin, how you can put up with such poor food as this , but of course you expect anything
Once upon a time there was a Miser who used to hide his gold at the foot of a tree in his garden; but every week he used to go and dig it up and gloat over his grains. A robber, who had noticed this, went and dug up the gold and decamped with it. When the Miser next came to gloat over his
In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its heart's content. An Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the nest.
"Why not come and chat with me", said the Grasshopper, "instead of toiling and moiling
It happened that a countryman was sowing some hemp seeds in a field where a swallow and some other birds were hopping about picking up their food. 'Beware of that man", quoth the swallow. "Why, what is he doing?" said the others.
One day the villagers notice noticed that the mountains were in labour; smoke came out of their summits, the earth was quaking at their feet, tees were crashing and huge rocks were tumbling. They felt sure that something
