--- title: Aesop’s Fables, part 6 — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · full text with trees · page 2 description: Aesop’s Fables, part 6, «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop: the whole chapter, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics. It begins: The Bee and Jupiter --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/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 6 # Aesop’s Fables, part 6 · page 2 [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/) **2** - [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/101/) — The gift of a friend?” - [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/102/) — The Birdcatcher, the Partridge, and the Cock - [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/103/) — A BIRDCATCHER was about to sit down to a dinner of herbs when a friend unexpectedly came in. - [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/104/) — The bird-trap was quite empty, as he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which he had tamed for a decoy. - [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/105/) — The bird entreated earnestly for his life: “What would you do without me when next you spread your nets? - [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/106/) — Who would chirp you to sleep, or call for you the covey of answering birds?” - [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/107/) — The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb. - [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/108/) — But the Cock expostulated in piteous tones from his perch: “If you kill me, who will announce to you the appearance of the dawn? - [109](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/109/) — Who will wake you to your daily tasks or tell you when it is time to visit the bird-trap in the morning?” - [110](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/110/) — He replied, “What you say is true. - [111](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/111/) — You are a capital bird at telling the time of day. - [112](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/112/) — But my friend and I must have our dinners.” - [113](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/113/) — Necessity knows no law. - [114](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/114/) — The Ant and the Dove - [115](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/115/) — AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of drowning. - [116](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/116/) — A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her. - [117](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/117/) — The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank. - [118](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/118/) — Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches. - [119](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/119/) — The Ant, perceiving his design, stung him in the foot. - [120](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/120/) — In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing. - [121](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/121/) — The Hares and the Frogs - [122](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/122/) — THE HARES, oppressed by their own exceeding timidity and weary of the perpetual alarm to which they were exposed, with one accord determined to put an end to themselves and their troubles by jumping from a lofty precipice into a deep lake below. - [123](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/123/) — As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety. — checked by a teacher - [124](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/124/) — On seeing the rapid disappearance of the Frogs, one of the Hares cried out to his companions: “Stay, my friends, do not do as you intended; for you now see that there are creatures who are still more timid than ourselves.” - [125](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/125/) — The Monkey and the Fishermen - [126](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/126/) — A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings. - [127](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/127/) — The Fishermen after a while gave up fishing, and on going home to dinner left their nets upon the bank. - [128](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/128/) — The Monkey, who is the most imitative of animals, descended from the treetop and endeavored to do as they had done. - [129](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/129/) — Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned. - [130](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/130/) — With his last breath he said to himself, “I am rightly served; for what business had I who had never handled a net to try and catch fish?” - [131](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/131/) — The Swan and the Goose - [132](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/132/) — A CERTAIN rich man bought in the market a Goose and a Swan. - [133](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/133/) — He fed the one for his table and kept the other for the sake of its song. - [134](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/134/) — When the time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to get him at night, when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the other. - [135](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/135/) — By mistake he caught the Swan instead of the Goose. - [136](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/8/136/) — The Swan, threatened with death, burst forth into song and thus made himself known by his voice, and preserved his life by his melody. 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