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Poem Crazy Like A What

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 16 Mar 19

Crazy Like A What? Who do you think you are calling crazy? I was smart enough to catch your chickens. Clever, crafty, cunning, cruel, but not lazy, Mad, insane, or cuckoo. What the dickens Possessed you to question my reason,...

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Updated Fables: The Fox and the Grapes

Katt Rocketman @PeachieMew (881) • Cleveland, Ohio 11 Nov 18

One fine day, a hungry fox was out looking for food when he saw a grape vine... and completely ignored it, because grapes are poisonous to foxes. So he went and ate a rabbit instead. Moral: [i]Keep up-to-date with scientific...

Book Review Chaucer The Canterbury Tales The Nuns Priests Tale

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 14 Feb 18

With a request for a lighter story to follow the Monk’s preceding catalogue of tragedy and death, a priest, Sir John, accompanying a young Nun to Canterbury, offers a suitable story. He claims it is true, though what he offers is...

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Preston Pub Sign Studies The Fox And Grapes

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 28 Oct 16

This pub has had at least two good relevant inn signs, and I captured the earlier one on a visit to Preston about five years ago, soon after starting to collect inn sign images. The pub is located on Fox Street and grapes are an...

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Aesop for President - 2017

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 30 Sep 16

Aesop for President - 2017 - Old Aesop was a writer of long ago, perhaps, but he nailed it with his fable of the "Ass and the Old Shepherd." How did he so completely understand today's politics here in the United States when, at...

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Aesop's Fables

Alice Henry @IreneVincent (15960) • United States 28 Sep 16

I’m always finding interesting books at the Thrift Stores. So I found this one about Aesop’s Fables. It’s a paperback book, so I only paid $1 for it. This book is a “Watermill Classic” edition by Watermill Press. On the back of...

tortoise and the hare

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Fable -The REAL Story of the Ant and the Grasshopper

Gus Kilthau @Ceerios (4698) • Goodfellow, Texas 24 Aug 16

The REAL Story of the Ant and the Grasshopper [i]Famous storyteller, Aesop, did not always tell things as they really were. For instance, his tale about the ants and the grasshopper missed the mark. Here is the real story...

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The Story In The Song – Al Wilson – The Snake

Arthur Chappell @arthurchappell (44941) • Preston, England 30 Dec 15

A great tragic allegorical fable inspired by Aesop, that became a slowburn classic soul-ballad standard. Aesop’s Fables includes a story of an ungrateful venomous snake that still bites and poisons to death a brave naive and...

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Favorite Aesop's Fable

highlyclever @highlyclever (1111) • United States 19 Jul 08

My father once told me that his favorite Aesop's fable was the tale of the wager between the wind and the sun. After arguing between themselves about which of the two was stronger, the wind and the sun noticed a man passing by,...

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What is your favorite and best loved Aesop Fables?

twilight_67 @twilight_67 (52) • China 29 May 08

When I was young I love to read a short story with animals as characters that talk and act like human beings. It tells a lesson and it often ends with a proverb. The Dog and the Reflection in the River is my favorite and best...

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Do U like to read Folktales like this?

msivaprakash @msivaprakash (35) • India 6 Dec 07

Check out my blog http://moralsandfables.blogspot.com/ Do u like to read this types of folk tales and fables. Do u have any collections like aesop fables, panchatantra tales, jataka tales, fairy tales, african folktales etc.......

Phaedrus - roman fabulist

PaulMel @PaulMel (658) • Portugal 7 Jun 07

He was able to create fables, with an improved style, compared to Aesop...

wht ur favourite novel and why

shivram123 @shivram123 (656) • India 8 Jan 07

my favourite novel is around the world in 80 days by jules verne as it is all abt funny things and suspence

charles dickens

fyodor dostoevsky

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