--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 3 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 3, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Laborer and the Snake --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/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 3 # Aesop’s Fables, part 3 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/101/) — If you would only dismiss them from your heels, there might soon be treaties of peace and reconciliation between us.” - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/102/) — The Sheep, poor silly creatures, were easily beguiled and dismissed the Dogs, whereupon the Wolves destroyed the unguarded flock at their own pleasure. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/103/) — The Cat and the Birds - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/104/) — A CAT, hearing that the Birds in a certain aviary were ailing dressed himself up as a physician, and, taking his cane and a bag of instruments becoming his profession, went to call on them. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/105/) — He knocked at the door and inquired of the inmates how they all did, saying that if they were ill, he would be happy to prescribe for them and cure them. - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/106/) — They replied, “We are all very well, and shall continue so, if you will only be good enough to go away, and leave us as we are.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/107/) — The Vain Jackdaw - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/108/) — JUPITER DETERMINED, it is said, to create a sovereign over the birds, and made proclamation that on a certain day they should all present themselves before him, when he would himself choose the most beautiful among them to be king. - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/109/) — The Jackdaw, knowing his own ugliness, searched through the woods and fields, and collected the feathers which had fallen from the wings of his companions, and stuck them in all parts of his body, hoping thereby to make himself the most beautiful of all. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/110/) — When the appointed day arrived, and the birds had assembled before Jupiter, the Jackdaw also made his appearance in his many feathered finery. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/111/) — But when Jupiter proposed to make him king because of the beauty of his plumage, the birds indignantly protested, and each plucked from him his own feathers, leaving the Jackdaw nothing but a Jackdaw. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/112/) — The Kid and the Wolf - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/113/) — A KID standing on the roof of a house, out of harm’s way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/114/) — The Wolf, looking up, said, “Sirrah! - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/115/) — I hear thee: yet it is not thou who mockest me, but the roof on which thou art standing.” - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/116/) — Time and place often give the advantage to the weak over the strong. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/117/) — The Old Woman and the Physician - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/118/) — AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/119/) — This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/120/) — And when he had got all she had, he healed her and demanded the promised payment. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/121/) — The Old Woman, when she recovered her sight and saw none of her goods in her house, would give him nothing. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/122/) — The Physician insisted on his claim, and, as she still refused, summoned her before the Judge. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/123/) — The Old Woman, standing up in the Court, argued: “This man here speaks the truth in what he says; for I did promise to give him a sum of money if I should recover my sight: but if I continued blind, I was to give him nothing. - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/124/) — Now he declares that I am healed. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/125/) — I on the contrary affirm that I am still blind; for when I lost the use of my eyes, I saw in my house various chattels and valuable goods: but now, though he swears I am cured of my blindness, I am not able to see a single thing in it.” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/) **2** - ← previous: [Aesop’s Fables, part 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/) - next →: [Aesop’s Fables, part 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/) - ↑ back to [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/)