The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 20
could receive no return from me, but now, you see,it is you who have to be grateful to me. The story shows that there come sudden changesof affairs, when the most powerful owe everythingto the weakest. THE GOOSE THAT LAID GOLDEN EGGS. Theee was a Man who once had a very hand-some Goose, that always… … wrung her neck straightway, and found she wasexactly like all other geese. He thought to findriches, and lost the little he had. The fable teaches that one who has anything 6 THE BOOK OF FABLES. should be content with it, and avoid covetousness,lest he lose what he has. THE BOYS AND THE FROGS. A…
Children's literature
Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
