Vulgar words in Aesop's Fables - A New Revised Version From Original Sources (Page 1)
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An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat, nor even that without hard work.
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The Playful Ass.
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An Ass climbed up to the roof of a building, and, frisking about there, broke in the tiling.
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A Horse, proud of his fine trappings, met an Ass on the highway.
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An Ass was loaded with good provisions of several sorts, which, in time of harvest, he was carrying into the field for his master and the reapers to dine upon.
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A man wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try him before he bought him.
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A Man once kept a Goat and an Ass.
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An Ass and a Cock were together, when a Lion, desperate from hunger, approached.
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An Ass, being driven along the high road, suddenly started off, and bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
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The Buffoon and the Countryman.
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A Buffoon, well known for his jokes, said that he had a kind of entertainment that had never been produced in a theater.
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The Buffoon appeared, and imitated the squeaking of a little pig so admirably with his voice, that the audience declared that he had a porker under his cloak, and demanded that it should be shaken out.
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The Buffoon grunted and squeaked, and obtained, as on the preceding day, the applause and cheers of the spectators.
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The crowd, however, cried out that the Buffoon had given a far more exact imitation.
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A little scoundrel of an Ass, happening to meet with a Boar, had a mind to be arch upon him, and so, says he: "Your humble servant."
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The Horse fell down straightway under the weight, no longer equal to the burden, and said to his master: "You must now e'en go to the war on foot, for you have transformed me from a Horse into an Ass."
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An Ass once carried through the streets of the city a famous wooden Image, to be placed in one of its temples.
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it is not yet come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass."
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A man had an Ass and a Maltese Lap-dog, a very great beauty.
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The Ass was left in a stable, and had plenty of oats and hay to eat, just as any other Ass would.
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An Ass, feeding in a meadow, saw a Wolf approaching to seize him, and immediately pretended to be lame.
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A traveler hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.
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The Horse and the Loaded Ass.
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An idle Horse, and an Ass laboring under a heavy burden, were traveling the road together.
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The Horse was ill-natured and refused to do it; upon which the poor Ass tumbled down in the midst of the highway, and expired.
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An Ass, having heard some Grasshoppers chirping, was highly enchanted; and desiring to possess the same charms of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on, to give them such beautiful voices.
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An Ass, having put on the Lion's skin, roamed about in the forest, and amused himself by frightening all the foolish animals he met with in his wanderings.
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The Sensible Ass.
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A Lion and an Ass made an agreement to go out hunting together.
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"Yes, indeed," said the Lion; "and I assure you, you would have frightened me too, if I had not known you to be an Ass."
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"Pray, honest friend," said a townsman, "is that Ass your own?"
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On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very weary, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: "I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass."
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A certain Huckster who kept an Ass, hearing that Salt was to be had cheap at the sea-side, drove down his Ass thither to buy some.
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The Wild Ass and the Lion.
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A Wild Ass and a Lion entered into an alliance that they might capture the beasts of the forest with the greater ease.
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The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed.