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  2. The Lion and the Mouse - Wikipedia

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    Woodcut showing two scenes from the fable in the Ysopu hystoriado, Seville 1521. The Lion and the Mouse is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 150 in the Perry Index. There are also Eastern variants of the story, all of which demonstrate mutual dependence regardless of size or status. In the Renaissance the fable was provided with a sequel ...

  3. The Ant and the Grasshopper - Wikipedia

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    The Ant and the Grasshopper, alternatively titled The Grasshopper and the Ant (or Ants ), is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 373 in the Perry Index. [1] The fable describes how a hungry grasshopper begs for food from an ant when winter comes and is refused. The situation sums up moral lessons about the virtues of hard work and planning for the ...

  4. The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse - Wikipedia

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    Aesop's Fables (1912), illustrated by Arthur Rackham. " The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse " is one of Aesop's Fables. It is number 352 in the Perry Index and type 112 in Aarne–Thompson 's folk tale index. [1] [2] Like several other elements in Aesop's fables, "town mouse and country mouse" has become an English idiom .

  5. The Lottery - Wikipedia

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    "The Lottery" is a short story by Shirley Jackson that was first published in The New Yorker on June 26, 1948. The story describes a fictional small American community that observes an annual tradition known as "the lottery", which is intended to ensure a good harvest and purge the town of bad omens. The lottery, its preparations, and its execution are all described in detail, though it is not ...

  6. The Unicorn in the Garden - Wikipedia

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    The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble. " The Unicorn in the Garden " is a short story written by James Thurber. One of the most famous of Thurber's humorous modern fables, it first appeared in The New Yorker on October 21, 1939; and was first collected in his book Fables for Our Time and Famous Poems Illustrated (Harper and Brothers, 1940 ).

  7. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Parable of the drowning man. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue attempts in the face of approaching floodwaters, each time telling the would-be rescuers that God will save him.

  8. Tale of Two Brothers - Wikipedia

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    Created. c. 1197 BC. Discovered. before 1858. Present location. London, England, United Kingdom. The " Tale of Two Brothers " is an ancient Egyptian story that dates from the reign of Seti II, who ruled from 1200 to 1194 BC during the 19th Dynasty of the New Kingdom. [1] The story is preserved on the Papyrus D'Orbiney, [2] which is currently ...

  9. The Scorpion and the Frog - Wikipedia

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    The earliest known appearance of this fable is in the 1933 Russian novel The German Quarter by Lev Nitoburg. The fable also appears in the 1944 novel The Hunter of the Pamirs, and this is the earliest known appearance of the fable in English. The Hunter of the Pamirs is an English translation of the 1940 Russian novel Jura by Georgii Tushkan.

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