2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across
a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be
allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like. When h

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A TRAVELER hired an Ass to convey him to a distant place.
The
day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the
Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under
t

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ASS congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and
carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to
eat and not even that without hard work.
But when war broke out,
a heav

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ASS once carried through the streets of a city a famous wooden
Image, to be placed in one of its Temples.
As he passed along,
the crowd made lowly prostration before the Image.
The Ass,
thinki

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ARAB CAMEL-DRIVER, after completing the loading of his Camel,
asked him which he would like best, to go up hill or down.
The
poor beast replied, not without a touch of reason:
"Why do you

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

The gods were once disputing whether it was possible for a
living being to change its nature.
Jupiter said "Yes," but Venus
said "No."
So, to try the question, Jupiter turned

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A singing bird was confined in a cage which hung outside a window,
and had a way of singing at night when all other birds were asleep.
One night a Bat came and clung to the bars of the cage, and as

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

WHEN MAN first saw the Camel, he was so frightened at his vast
size that he ran away.
After a time, perceiving the meekness and
gentleness of the beast's temper, he summoned courage enough to
appr

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A BULL finding a lion's cub asleep gored him to death with his
horns.
The Lioness came up, and bitterly lamented the death of
her whelp.
A wild-boar Hunter, seeing her distress, stood at a
distan

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

An old man on the point of death summoned his sons around him
to give them some parting advice.
He ordered his servants to
bring in a faggot of sticks, and said to his eldest son: "Break
it.&

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A BULL was striving with all his might to squeeze himself through
a narrow passage which led to his stall.
A young Calf came up,
and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could
man

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A BULL, escaping from a Lion, hid in a cave which some shepherds
had recently occupied.
As soon as he entered, a He-Goat left in
the cave sharply attacked him with his horns.
The Bull quietly
add

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

A FATHER had one son and one daughter, the former remarkable for
his good looks, the latter for her extraordinary ugliness.
While
they were playing one day as children, they happened by chance to

2008-02-02 所属栏目:英语故事

At a country fair there was a Buffoon who made all the people
laugh by imitating the cries of various animals.
He finished off
by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had
a

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ASS, being driven along a high road, suddenly started off and
bolted to the brink of a deep precipice.
While he was in the act
of throwing himself over, his owner seized him by the tail,
endeav

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food
and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from
his present service and provided with another master.
Jupiter,
aft

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

THE ANTS were spending a fine winter's day drying grain collected
in the summertime.
A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed
by and earnestly begged for a little food.
The Ants inquired of
h

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

TWO MEN, one who always spoke the truth and the other who told
nothing but lies, were traveling together and by chance came to
the land of Apes.
One of the Apes, who had raised himself to be
king,

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

AN ANT went to the bank of a river to quench its thirst, and
being carried away by the rush of the stream, was on the point of
drowning.
A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked
a le

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

In a field one summer's day a Grasshopper was hopping about,
chirping and singing to its heart's content.
An Ant passed by,
bearing along with great toil an ear of corn he was taking to the
nest.

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on
their path.
One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and
concealed himself in the branches.
The other, seeing that he
must be a

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

An Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food came
across a Chrysalis that was very near its time of change. The
Chrysalis moved its tail, and thus attracted the attention of the An

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded
to be spared his life.
The Weasel refused, saying that he was by
nature the enemy of all birds.
The Bat assured him that he was
n

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

A BEAR boasted very much of his philanthropy, saying that of all
animals he was the most tender in his regard for man, for he had
such respect for him that he would not even touch his dead body.
A

2008-02-01 所属栏目:英语故事

There was once a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot
summer's day.
A Fly came up and kept buzzing about his bald pate,
and stinging him from time to time.
The Man aimed a blow at his
little