Blogs for days: Reading Diary Post B: Aesop's Fables

A Crow has a piece of cheese that a fox wants
The fox convinces the crow to caw causing the cheese to fall out of the crows mouth for the fox to eat
A crow dying from thirst figured out that if he put a small rocks into an almost empty pitcher of water, the water level would rise high enough to reach his beak in and drink
A tortoise asked an eagle to help him find a new place to live
A crow convinced an eagle to drop the tortoise so they could eat him
A jay put the molted feathers of a peacock on his tail.
The peacocks plucked the imposter of his feathers and the Jay was ashamed
A peacock asked Juno if he can have the voice of a nightingale.
Juno refused claiming he should be pleased with what he has.

A swallow warned the other birds to ensure that they are collecting all the hemp seeds the farmer was sowing
The birds did not take heed and the farmer made nests out of the uncollected hemp
A man captured a nightingale so it could sing to him forever
Trapped Nightingale don't sing. The bird tricked the man to free him
An eagle who was soaring was shot out of the sky by an arrow made with its own feathers
A rooster found a pearl among the hay in the yard
The lion king has declared universal peace between all animals and birds
The bat couldn't decide to join the beasts or the birds.
Both groups rejected the bat since he was indecisive

The ants collected food during the summer for the winter while the grasshopper played
When winter came aroud, the grasshopper was dying from starvation while the ants had plenty to eat
A country man lost his son a snake that had stung him
The man cut off the snakes tail and the snack sought revenge on the farmers cows
The man offered a truce but the snake refused
A man found a frozen snake in the snow.
He took him home to thaw out where the snake was killed for trying to bite the mans child.
A snake slithered into an armorer, he was stuck and tried to strike at the iron.
A mother crab tried to teach her baby crab to walk with grace by setting an example

A group of frogs desired a leader
They were given a log as a leader but were not happy with it
A crane was sent that ate all of them
A baby frog was frightened when he saw an ox.
The father inflated himself to be the size of the ox to show the child to not be afraid. But before the father, could achieve the size he exploded.
A fishman thought if he played his bag pipes for the fish they would be easier to catch. The fish did not jump
He threw the net in, caught the fish, and then played again. The fish jumped that time because they were not In charge anymore
After a long night of catching no fish, a fisherman caught a tiny fish.
The fish tried to convince the man to let him go but the man would rather have a tiny fish than nothing at all

The frogs desiring a king. Wikimedia

A man asked the trees for a small branch for a project
The trees give the man the branch for him to use it to make an ax and cut down the trees
A tree laughed at a reed for being so tiny
A hurricane blew the tree away while the little reed survived
The sun and the wind argued over who was stronger and placed a bet
The sun won the bet by getting the man to take his cloak off
Two pots were taken by the river one brass the other earthenware.
One pot was stronger than the other
The parts of the body were frustrated that the belly was doing no work but got the food
They decided to stop giving the belly food but grew weak and realized that how the body was working is right.

Man used to worship idols in the old days, stone, wooden and clay
A mans wooden god was not working, so it flew on the ground, busted open and coins flew out of it
Two men asked Jupiter to grant their wishes,
Jupiter agreed that he would if the one who was avaricious and the envious man would agree to having the neighbor having twice as much as him
The avaricious man asked for a room full of gold. The envious man, asked for sight in only one eye so his neighbor will be blind
A wagoner was pulling a heavy wagon when it began to sink in the mud.
He prayed to Hercules to help him and Hercules told him to get up and push the wheel

A man is being sent to execution for stealing.
He requests to see his mother, who he bites her ear off
He is mad at her for being the example of why he steals
A man with 2 wives lost all of his hair because both of wives didn't like it so they picked them out
A father on his death bed teaches his sons about unity using sticks
2 men were about to be attacked by a bear.
1 man ran up a tree while the other played dead
The bear told the one on the ground don't trust the friend that leaves you in a pinch

The people in a village became scared when a volcano was erupting.
The boy who cried wolf
A man was imitating the sound of animals. The people applauded his pink impression.
Another man brought a real pig and made it squeal and everyone thought it was fake and hated it
Women love wine( Amen).
A jar of wine was found but it was empty
A trumpeter was captured by the enemy in a battle.
They refused to let him go because he leads his army into battle rather even though he was unarmed

A man, his son, and their donkey went to the market
Trying to please everyone they came across they killed their donkey
A bald man was being attacked by a fly
He injured himself trying to attack the enemy back
A milkmaid was carrying a pail of milk on her head
In an attempt to make someone jealous she tossed her head and spilled all milk
An old man hid his gold that he would gloat over in his garden
The gold was stolen and he learned unused wealth might not even exist
A farmer had a chicken that would lay golden eggs.
He became greedy selling this eggs and ended up killing his chicken to find nothing inside

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