Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources (1882)
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor. prt, Murray, John, Aesop, James, Thomas, 1809-1863, Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 · London : John Murray · leaf 86
Your beauty isbut for the summer, but mine will stand many winters. Durability is better than show. Fable 87.—THE FARTHING RUSHLIGHT. A Rushlight that had grown fat and saucy with too muchgrease, boasted one evening before a large company, that itshone brighter than the sun, the moon, and all the… … Fable 88.—THE HERDSMAN AND THE LOST BULL. A Herdsman, who had lost a Bull, went roaming throughthe forest in search of it. Beinsf unable to find it, he be^canto VOW to all the Nymphs of the forest and the mountain, toMercury and to Pan, that he w^ould offer up a lamb to them,if he could only…
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