--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 9 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 9, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Two blacks do not make one white. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/page/2/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/) / Aesop’s Fables, part 9 # Aesop’s Fables, part 9 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/101/) — From that hour he found that instead of obtaining revenge on the Stag, he had enslaved himself to the service of man. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/102/) — The Jackdaw and the Doves - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/103/) — A JACKDAW, seeing some Doves in a cote abundantly provided with food, painted himself white and joined them in order to share their plentiful maintenance. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/104/) — The Doves, as long as he was silent, supposed him to be one of themselves and admitted him to their cote. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/105/) — But when one day he forgot himself and began to chatter, they discovered his true character and drove him forth, pecking him with their beaks. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/106/) — Failing to obtain food among the Doves, he returned to the Jackdaws. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/107/) — They too, not recognizing him on account of his color, expelled him from living with them. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/108/) — So desiring two ends, he obtained neither. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/109/) — The Fox and the Monkey - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/110/) — A FOX and a Monkey were traveling together on the same road. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/111/) — As they journeyed, they passed through a cemetery full of monuments. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/112/) — “All these monuments which you see,” said the Monkey, “are erected in honour of my ancestors, who were in their day freedmen and citizens of great renown.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/113/) — The Fox replied, “You have chosen a most appropriate subject for your falsehoods, as I am sure none of your ancestors will be able to contradict you.” - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/114/) — A false tale often betrays itself. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/115/) — The Man and His Wife - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/116/) — A MAN had a Wife who made herself hated by all the members of his household. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/117/) — Wishing to find out if she had the same effect on the persons in her father’s house, he made some excuse to send her home on a visit to her father. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/118/) — After a short time she returned, and when he inquired how she had got on and how the servants had treated her, she replied, “The herdsmen and shepherds cast on me looks of aversion.” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/119/) — He said, “O Wife, if you were disliked by those who go out early in the morning with their flocks and return late in the evening, what must have been felt towards you by those with whom you passed the whole day!” - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/120/) — Straws show how the wind blows. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/121/) — The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/122/) — A HORSE, Ox, and Dog, driven to great straits by the cold, sought shelter and protection from Man. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/123/) — He received them kindly, lighted a fire, and warmed them. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/124/) — He let the Horse make free with his oats, gave the Ox an abundance of hay, and fed the Dog with meat from his own table. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/125/) — Grateful for these favours, the animals determined to repay him to the best of their ability. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/126/) — For this purpose, they divided the term of his life between them, and each endowed one portion of it with the qualities which chiefly characterized himself. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/127/) — The Horse chose his earliest years and gave them his own attributes: hence every man is in his youth impetuous, headstrong, and obstinate in maintaining his own opinion. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/128/) — The Ox took under his patronage the next term of life, and therefore man in his middle age is fond of work, devoted to labor, and resolute to amass wealth and to husband his resources. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/11/129/) — The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities. 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