文章列表

• 1.The Ants and the Grasshopper
• SOME Members of a Legislature were making schedules of their wealth at the end of the session, when an Honest Miner came along and asked them to divid...
• 2.The Piping Fisherman
• AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no subscribers. One day it o...
• 3.The Belly and the Members
• SOME Workingmen employed in a shoe factory went on a strike, saying: Why should we continue to work to feed and clothe our employer when we have none ...
• 4.The Hares and the Frogs
• THE Members of a Legislature, being told that they were the meanest thieves in the world, resolved to commit suicide. So they bought shrouds, and layi...
• 5.The Lion and the Mouse
• A JUDGE was awakened by the noise of a lawyer prosecuting a Thief. Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the la...
• 6.The Wolf and the Crane
• A RICH Man wanted to tell a certain lie, but the lie was of such monstrous size that it stuck in his throat; so he employed an Editor to write it out ...
• 7.The Bellamy and the Members
• THE Members of a body of Socialists rose in insurrection against their Bellamy. Why, said they, should we be all the time tucking you out with food wh...
• 8.The Mountain and the Mouse
• A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless exp...
• 9.The North Wind and the Sun
• THE Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful, and agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner strip a traveller o...
• 10.The Crab and His Son
• A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, Why do you not walk straight forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful. Why don't you walk straight forward...