Select Fables for Children

Title

Select Fables for Children

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Date

2016-04-20T15:51:11Z

2015-08

en_US 1835?

Date Available

2016-04-20T15:51:11Z

Date Issued

1835?

Abstract

en_US This is a pamphlet of 47 pages offering twenty-one fables, each beginning two pages with a half-page illustration. Some also have endpieces. The selection is apt for children. The kid here forgets her mother's sage advice, opens the door to the wolf, and is devoured (10). God is the one who will answer the two young thieves who got a piece of meat from the butcher, even if the butcher does not know which did it (16). BF warns about lying (17-18). AD here is told of a dove and a bee (21-22). "The Old Woman and Her Maids" features an illustration of the rooster having its neck chopped in the kitchen (25)! Here three maids are pictured, while the text speaks of a "parcel." Several fables are either new or have a new twist. A boy sits in a tree stealing apples. Speech and grass thrown by the tree's owner fail to bring the boy down, but stones thrown at him cause him to quit and come down (29-30). A fox on his deathbed tells his children to live differently than he has. The children ask how they can, since their nature and his example and upbringing have taught them one clear approach to life (33-34). "The Bull and the Dog" is new to me. The bull tosses the irritating dog up in the air once and tells him to quit. The dog persists, and the bull immediately kills him (35-36). The miser plans to give only after he dies (37-38). "All vices leave us…but avarice (too often) goes with us from this world to the next." I have trouble with "The Eagle and the Assembly of Animals" (41-2). All the animals complain; Jupiter allows them to change their situations. Nobody moves. Moral: "Curiosity is very often fatal in its consequences, and pernicious in its effects." The title-page illustration shows kids in a toy store receiving "fairings" because they behave.

Identifier

10608 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/85393

Language

eng

Publisher

Thomas Richardson

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Subject

en_US Aesop and Others See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

Book, Whole