--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 10 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 10, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Thief and the Housedog --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/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 10 # Aesop’s Fables, part 10 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/101/) — “I have reasons enough,” said the Bull. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/102/) — “I see no indication whatever of your having slaughtered a sheep, while I do see very plainly every preparation for your dining on a bull.” - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/103/) — The Fox and the Mask - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/104/) — A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/105/) — He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head! - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/106/) — Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/107/) — The Grasshopper and the Owl - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/108/) — AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly besought her to stop chirping. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/109/) — The Grasshopper refused to desist, and chirped louder and louder the more the Owl entreated. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/110/) — When she saw that she could get no redress and that her words were despised, the Owl attacked the chatterer by a stratagem. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/111/) — “Since I cannot sleep,” she said, “on account of your song which, believe me, is sweet as the lyre of Apollo, I shall indulge myself in drinking some nectar which Pallas lately gave me. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/112/) — If you do not dislike it, come to me and we will drink it together.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/113/) — The Grasshopper, who was thirsty, and pleased with the praise of her voice, eagerly flew up. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/114/) — The Owl came forth from her hollow, seized her, and put her to death. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/115/) — The Fowler and the Viper - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/116/) — A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/117/) — Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/118/) — While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet. — checked by a teacher - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/119/) — The Viper, turning about, stung him, and falling into a swoon, the man said to himself, “Woe is me! that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.” - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/120/) — The Horse and the Ass - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/121/) — A HORSE, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/122/) — The Ass, being heavily laden, moved slowly out of the way. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/123/) — “Hardly,” said the Horse, “can I resist kicking you with my heels.” - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/124/) — The Ass held his peace, and made only a silent appeal to the justice of the gods. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/125/) — Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/126/) — The Ass, seeing him drawing a dungcart, thus derided him: “Where, O boaster, are now all thy gay trappings, thou who are thyself reduced to the condition you so lately treated with contempt?” - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/127/) — The Lion and the Three Bulls - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/128/) — THREE BULLS for a long time pastured together. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/129/) — A Lion lay in ambush in the hope of making them his prey, but was afraid to attack them while they kept together. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/12/130/) — Having at last by guileful speeches succeeded in separating them, he attacked them without fear as they fed alone, and feasted on them one by one at his own leisure. 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