The Dog and the Wolf: The wolf was hungry and the dog said that he could get the wolf food if he comes with him to his master and allows to be chained at night. The wolf leaves when he sees the color mark.
The Moral: Better starve free than be a fat slave
The Sick Lion: As the Lion lay dying, his subjects decide to pay him back for old grudges.
The Moral:Only cowards insult dying majesty
The Two Fellows and the Bear: Two men were walking in the woods when a bear jumped out. The first man hid leaving the second man to fend for himself. The second man lay on the ground and the bear sniffed him and then left.
The bear had whispered the moral into the second man's ear saying: Never trust a friend who deserts you at a pinch
The Young Thief and His Mother: A man gets caught for stealing and he asks to see his mom. When his mom gets there he went to bite her ear off as punishment to her because when he was young he would steal and she would never rebuke him for it.
The Moral:Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is
old he will not depart therefrom
The Hare With Many Friends: The hare had many friends but when he asked those friends for help when he was trying to get away from the hounds none of them were willing to help him.
The Moral:He that has many friends, has no friends
The Trees and the Axe: A man asked if he could make a handle for his axe by one of the trees and the trees gave him a young tree. When the man was done with the handle he used the axe to cut down more trees.
The Moral:In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.
The Lion in Love: A lion fell in love with a young maiden but when he went to marry her, her parents said he was to scary so they asked him to cut his claws and remove his teeth. When he came back to show them that he did that for their daughter they laughed in his face and told him to do his worst now.
The Moral:Love can tame the wildest
The Old Hound: An old hound tried to catch a boar but because of his old age he couldn't hold on and let it go. His master abused him and the hound said that he should be praised for what he once was, not for wat he is now.
The Moral:No one should be blamed for his infirmities
The Mischievous Dog: A dog would bite people's ankles so much that his master but a bell and rope around his neck. The dog thought to be proud of this and would strut around with it until another dog told him that it wasn't something to be proud of, that it was to show that he was a bad dog.
The Moral: Those who achieve notoriety often mistake it for fame
The Lion and the Boar: Both the lion and the boar came to a well to drink out of it at the same time. They began to fight about who should get to drink first until they realized that there were voultures watching them ready to feast on the loser. They decided it was beter to be friends then to be the food of voultures.
The Moral:Those who strive are often watched by others who will take advantage of their defeat to benefit themselves
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