When the Princess Badoura was placed on Prince Camaralzaman's bed, in order to compare their claims to beauty, the fairy Maimounë changed herself into a flea, and bit the prince on the…
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by Aesop The Sick StagBrother and SisterThe Ass and the Mule A certain man who had an Ass and a Mule loaded them both up one day and set out upon a journey. So long as the road was fairly…
OrchardI saw the first pear
As it fell —
The honey-seeking, golden-banded,
The yellow swarm
Was not more fleet than I,
(Spare us from loveliness)
And I fell prostrate
Crying:
You have flayed…
by Aesop The Quack DoctorHercules and PlutusThe Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox A Lion, infirm with age, lay sick in his den, and all the beasts of the forest came to inquire after his health…
Bag-Pipes at SeaClinton ScollardAbove the shouting of the gale,
The whipping sheet, the dashing spray,
I heard, with notes of joy and wail,
A piper play.Along the dipping deck he trod,
The…
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The venom is in the tail. The real difficulty is the conclusion. The allusion is to the scorpion, which has a sting in its tail. The French say, “It is always most difficult to flay the…
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