Category: Fables

The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable that addresses the difference between a resourceful expediency and the master strategist. In the basic story a cat and a fox discuss how many tricks and dodges they have. The fox boasts that he has many; the cat confesses to having only one. When hunters arrive with their […]

The Hare and the Tortoise is one of Aesop’s Fables which tells the story of a race between unequal partners in which ingenuity and cunnings are employed to overcome a strong opponent. A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: “Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat […]

A Peacock, puffed up with vanity, met a Crane one day, and to impress him spread his gorgeous tail in the Sun. “Look” he said. “What have you to compare with this? I am dressed in all the glory of the rainbow, while your feathers are gray as dust!” The Crane spread his broad wings […]