--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 11 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 11, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: Union is strength. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/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 11 # Aesop’s Fables, part 11 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/101/) — THE NORTH WIND and the Sun disputed as to which was the most powerful, and agreed that he should be declared the victor who could first strip a wayfaring man of his clothes. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/102/) — The North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/103/) — The Sun suddenly shone out with all his warmth. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/104/) — The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in his path. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/105/) — Persuasion is better than Force. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/106/) — The Crow and Mercury - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/107/) — A CROW caught in a snare prayed to Apollo to release him, making a vow to offer some frankincense at his shrine. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/108/) — But when rescued from his danger, he forgot his promise. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/109/) — Shortly afterwards, again caught in a snare, he passed by Apollo and made the same promise to offer frankincense to Mercury. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/110/) — Mercury soon appeared and said to him, “O thou most base fellow? how can I believe thee, who hast disowned and wronged thy former patron?” - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/111/) — The Fox and the Crane - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/112/) — A FOX invited a Crane to supper and provided nothing for his entertainment but some soup made of pulse, which was poured out into a broad flat stone dish. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/113/) — The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/114/) — The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/115/) — The Fox, unable even to taste it, met with a fitting requital, after the fashion of her own hospitality. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/116/) — The Wolf and the Lion - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/117/) — ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion? - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/118/) — Ought I not to be acknowledged as King of all the collected beasts?” - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/119/) — While he was indulging in these proud thoughts, a Lion fell upon him and killed him. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/120/) — He exclaimed with a too late repentance, “Wretched me! this overestimation of myself is the cause of my destruction.” - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/121/) — The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/122/) — THE BIRDS waged war with the Beasts, and each were by turns the conquerors. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/123/) — A Bat, fearing the uncertain issues of the fight, always fought on the side which he felt was the strongest. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/124/) — When peace was proclaimed, his deceitful conduct was apparent to both combatants. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/125/) — Therefore being condemned by each for his treachery, he was driven forth from the light of day, and henceforth concealed himself in dark hiding-places, flying always alone and at night. 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