Item
The Fox and the Crow & The Fox, the Cock and the Dog
- Title
- en_US The Fox and the Crow & The Fox, the Cock and the Dog
- en_US Sawan World Famous Aesop's Fables
- en_US WFAF6
- Description
- No Author
- Creator
- en_US No Author See all items with this value
- Date
- 2022-11-07T16:12:06Z
- 2022-11
- en_US 2018
- Date Available
- 2022-11-07T16:12:06Z
- Date Issued
- en_US 2018
- Abstract
- en_US The male fox here begins by telling the female crow how young and lovely she looks. He has traveled widely but has never seen as beautiful a crow. "I am sure your voice matches your looks!" "The crow was less affected by the loss of cheese than being trapped by flattery. 'What a fool I am!" The second story is not carefully presented. In the text, a cock is "high up in the coop," while the illustration has him standing on top of the coop. While the fable's title speaks of one dog, the operative concept in the story has to do with the fictional dogs that the cock sees in the distance. The fox's ruse is stated in poor fashion: "None of the animals will attack another animals any more!" At the moment of the cock's counter-ruse, he "was still higher up and screening at something far off." Screening?
- Identifier
- en_US 12792 (Access ID)
- Language
- en_US eng
- Publisher
- en_US Manoj Publications
- en_US Delhi, India
- Subject
- Aesop See all items with this value
- Item sets
- Carlson Fable Collection Books