--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 4 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 4, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Ox and the Frog --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/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 4 # Aesop’s Fables, part 4 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/101/) — He sat down by the wayside, and throwing down his load, besought “Death” to come. - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/102/) — “Death” immediately appeared in answer to his summons and asked for what reason he had called him. - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/103/) — The Old Man hurriedly replied, “That, lifting up the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders.” - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/104/) — The Fir-Tree and the Bramble - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/105/) — A FIR-TREE said boastingly to the Bramble, “You are useful for nothing at all; while I am everywhere used for roofs and houses.” - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/106/) — The Bramble answered: “You poor creature, if you would only call to mind the axes and saws which are about to hew you down, you would have reason to wish that you had grown up a Bramble, not a Fir-Tree.” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/107/) — Better poverty without care, than riches with. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/108/) — The Æthiop - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/109/) — THE PURCHASER of a black servant was persuaded that the color of his skin arose from dirt contracted through the neglect of his former masters. - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/110/) — On bringing him home he resorted to every means of cleaning, and subjected the man to incessant scrubbings. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/111/) — The servant caught a severe cold, but he never changed his color or complexion. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/112/) — What’s bred in the bone will stick to the flesh. - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/113/) — The Mouse, the Frog, and the Hawk - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/114/) — A MOUSE who always lived on the land, by an unlucky chance formed an intimate acquaintance with a Frog, who lived for the most part in the water. - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/115/) — The Frog, one day intent on mischief, bound the foot of the Mouse tightly to his own. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/116/) — Thus joined together, the Frog first of all led his friend the Mouse to the meadow where they were accustomed to find their food. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/117/) — After this, he gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the Mouse with him. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/118/) — The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/119/) — The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated by the water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot of the Frog. — checked by a teacher - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/120/) — A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/121/) — The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk. - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/122/) — Harm hatch, harm catch. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/123/) — The Fisherman and His Nets - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/124/) — A FISHERMAN, engaged in his calling, made a very successful cast and captured a great haul of fish. - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/125/) — He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea. - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/126/) — The Wolf and the Sheep - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/127/) — A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/128/) — Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/129/) — “For,” he said, “if you will bring me drink, I will find means to provide myself with meat.” - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/130/) — “Yes,” said the Sheep, “if I should bring you the draught, you would doubtless make me provide the meat also.” [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/) **2** - ← previous: [Aesop’s Fables, part 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/5/) - next →: [Aesop’s Fables, part 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/7/) - ↑ back to [Three hundred Aesop’s fables](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/)