Reading notes: Aesops fabels (jacobs) part B

A cute little bat

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a crow could not reach in a bucket to drink, for the water was too low. it had an idea and through in a pebble. the story repeated the same line many a time, and i found that charming. eventually, the crow got a drink, little by little eventually does the trick. maybe goal setting theory

an eagle got shot with an arrow that was made with its own feathers. we often give our enemies the means for our own destruction. same story later on, but with trees and an axe.

a chicken found a shiny pearl in the yard, but has no use for this. he said that he would gladly trade it for even a morsel of food.

a bat claimed neither bird nor beast, thusly was accepted by neither as well.

A snake bit and killed the farmers son who stepped on his tail, so in response the farmer chopped off the snakes tail. when the farmer tried to make amends, the snake declined and said that injuries can be forgiven but never forgotten.


 a man prayed to a wooden idol that was given to him by his dad. he prayed and prayed, but never became any luckier. one day he got mad and broke the idol, and it burst into many a gold pieces. I bet it would be interesting to continue this story.

the boy who cried wolf

don't count your chicken before they have hatched

a miser would come outside and look at his buried treasure. A thief stole it all and the miser was furious when he found out. A neighbor asked him if he ever spent it, and the miser replied no. the neighbor said welp, you can still come out and look at the hole, money not spent is the same as not having money to spend.

Story sources: The prose fables are from The Fables of Aesop by Joseph Jacobs (1894)