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STORYTELL ING UNIT : Fables
AESOP’S FABLES ’The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’
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‘The Fox and the Lion’
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A Wolf found great difficulty in getting at the sheep owing to the vigilance of the
shepherd and his dogs. But one day it found the skin of a sheep that had been flayed and
thrown aside, so it put the skin on over its own pelt and strolled down among the sheep.
The Lamb that belonged to the sheep whose skin the Wolf was wearing, began to follow the
Wolf in the Sheep’s clothing; so, leading the Lamb a little apart, he soon made a meal of her,
and for some time he succeeded in deceiving the sheep, and enjoying hearty meals.
A Lion used to prowl about a field in which Four Oxen used to dwell. Many a time he
tried to attack them; but whenever he came near they turned their tails to one another, so
that whichever way he approached them he was met by the horns of one of them. At last,
however, they fell to quarrelling amongst themselves, and each went off to a separate
pasture, alone, each in a separate corner of the field. Then the Lion attacked them one by
one and soon made an end of all four.
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‘The Farmer and the Snake
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‘The Farmer and the Cranes’
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One winter a Farmer found a Snake stiff and frozen with cold. He had compassion
on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom. The Snake quickly revived by the warmth, and
resuming its natural instincts, but its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound. “Oh,”
cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel.”
Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plow-‐lands newly sown with
wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the
terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they
ceased to take any notice and would not move. The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his
sling with stones, and killed a great number. The remaining birds at once forsook his fields,
crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to
scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”
CREDITS: Jill Pavich, NBCT [email protected] AICE: General Paper 8004 Boca Raton Community High School, PBCSD
Connecting to GP Prompts: “Violence is the only weapon for those that are oppressed.’ To what extent do you agree?
