ALL ABOUT...
THE FABLES OF AESOP​
SOME OF AESOP'S WORKS
Art by Donovan Cavendish​
Art by Dylan Cavendish
Art by Milo Winter.
Art by Donovan Cavendish​
The Mouse and the Oyster
Retold by Dylan Cavendish.
One afternoon, a fat mouse was wandering through the dark rooms and corridors of his home, when he came across an oyster, sitting as still as a stone wall. The mouse decided it looked edible, and sank its teeth into the oyster's spongelike flesh. But in doing that, the mouse had sealed his own fate. The oyster's mouth slammed shut with a painful SNAP, and the mouse was never to be heard from again...
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The Dog and its Reflection.
Retold by Nathan Emory.
A rather excited young dog was scampering along the dusty road as fast as his legs could carry him. For this was the day that the butcher had thrown him a bone! As he came across a pond, he looked into the cool water, and saw another dog with a bigger bone that he would soon realize was his own reflection staring back at him.
Instead of thinking about this, the dog blindly jumped at the other dog he thought he saw. He fell into the pond with a loud KER-SPLOOSH! Now wet, and rather sad that he had lost his prized possession, he managed to climb back ontio the shore, coming to realize what a dull mind he had.
Moral: Think before you act.
The Tortoise and the Hare
Retold by Donovan Cavendish.
There was once a hare, who thought himself to be the fastest animal in the forest he lived in. He boasted so, saying that he was nigh uncatchable by any other. Then, one day, a tortoise, who was rather slow, mind you, had quite enough of the hare's arrogance, and challenged him to a race.
"And how, pray, do you plan to beat me?" said the hare.
"It matters not, for I have a strategy," the tortoise replied.
"I accept your challenge, though not much a challenge it is," the hare said with pride.
The other animals set the track for them. And so, the race began. Quick as you could blink, the hare shot off o'er a green hill, and soon left the tortoise behind, plodding along. The hare ran half the course before a thought struck him: he was far enough ahead of the tortoise to enjoy himself.
"Hmmm..." though the hare, "I think I'll take a rest and frolick in the tall grass over yonder."
And so he did.
When the hare was done, he also thought to himself, "I should take a short nap. My speed dwarfs the tortoise's.
I have plenty of time." And with that, he lay beneath a large tree, and was lost in the realm of sleep.
All the while, ne ne'er noticed the tortoise, still plodding along, walk right past the hare! He simply took one step after another, with a determined heart.
The hare soon awakened from his slumber, and decided to beat the tortoise once and for all. He once again took off, as if he were shot from a gastrophetes. He raced across the finish line, and, to the hare's amazement, the tortoise was wating there, along with the other animals.
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The Wolf and the Crane
Retold by Nate Cole.
​A Wolf had been enjoying the meat of an animal he had hunted one afternoon, when a small bone embedded within the animal's meat became lodged in the wolf's throat. Unable to swallow it, his throat was terribly pained, and he ran all over, moaning and groaning, and searching all the while for some sort of relief. Desperate, he attempted to prevail upon many other woodland creatures to remove the bone from his aching throat.
"I will give you anything," pleaded the wolf, "If you would be so kind as to remove this accursed bone from my throat!"
At long last, a Crane volunteered to try and assist the wolf in his predicament. The crane instructed that the wolf lay down on his side, and open his mouth all the way, as wide as it could possibly go. The crane then proceeded to insert his long, slender neck into the wolf's mouth, and, using his beak, loosened the bone until it finally came free of the wolf's throat.
The crane then said, "I have assisted you in your plight. Now, could you kindly give me the reward I request, dear wolf? That reward which you had promised me upon removing the bone?"
But the wolf gave a sly grin, baring his teeth. He said to the crane, "You should be glad, Mr. Crane. Have I not rewarded you enough by allowing you to stick your head inside my throat and let you escape my jaws with it still attached to you? Surely this would seem like a great recompense."
Moral: Greed and Gratitude Share Nothing