--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 2 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 2, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: One story is good, till another is told. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/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 2 # Aesop’s Fables, part 2 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/101/) — He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/102/) — At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/103/) — The Goat replied, “Why, you silly fellow, the horn will speak though I be silent.” - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/104/) — Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hid. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/105/) — The Boasting Traveler - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/106/) — A MAN who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his own country, of the many wonderful and heroic feats he had performed in the different places he had visited. - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/107/) — Among other things, he said that when he was at Rhodes he had leaped to such a distance that no man of his day could leap anywhere near him as to that, there were in Rhodes many persons who saw him do it and whom he could call as witnesses. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/108/) — One of the bystanders interrupted him, saying: “Now, my good man, if this be all true there is no need of witnesses. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/109/) — Suppose this to be Rhodes, and leap for us.” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/110/) — The Lion in Love - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/111/) — A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/112/) — The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/113/) — He expressed his willingness to accept the Lion as the suitor of his daughter on one condition: that he should allow him to extract his teeth, and cut off his claws, as his daughter was fearfully afraid of both. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/114/) — The Lion cheerfully assented to the proposal. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/115/) — But when the toothless, clawless Lion returned to repeat his request, the Woodman, no longer afraid, set upon him with his club, and drove him away into the forest. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/116/) — The Miser - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/117/) — A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/118/) — One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/119/) — He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/120/) — The Miser, on his next visit, found the hole empty and began to tear his hair and to make loud lamentations. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/121/) — A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/122/) — It will do you quite the same service; for when the gold was there, you had it not, as you did not make the slightest use of it.” - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/123/) — The Porker, the Sheep, and the Goat - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/124/) — A young Pig was shut up in a fold-yard with a Goat and a Sheep. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/125/) — On one occasion the shepherd laid hold of him, when he grunted, and squeaked, and resisted violently. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/126/) — The Sheep and the Goat complained of his distressing cries, and said, “He often handles us, and we do not cry out.” - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/127/) — To this he replied, “Your handling and mine are very different things. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/128/) — He catches you only for your wool, or your milk, but he lays hold on me for my very life.” - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/129/) — The Boy and the Filberts - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/130/) — A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts. - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/131/) — He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher. - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/132/) — Unwilling to lose his filberts, and yet unable to withdraw his hand, he burst into tears and bitterly lamented his disappointment. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/133/) — A bystander said to him, “Be satisfied with half the quantity, and you will readily draw out your hand.” - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/134/) — Do not attempt too much at once. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/135/) — The Frogs Asking for a King - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/136/) — THE FROGS, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King. - [137](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/137/) — Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. - [138](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/138/) — The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool. - [139](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/139/) — But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt. - [140](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/140/) — After some time they began to think themselves ill-treated in the appointment of so inert a Ruler, and sent a second deputation to Jupiter to pray that he would set over them another sovereign. - [141](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/141/) — He then gave them an Eel to govern them. - [142](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/142/) — When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King. - [143](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/143/) — Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake. 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