The 15,767 occurrences of ass

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I faced him, black and bitter, and he was not only to me Jane's husband, the suspicious, narrow-minded ass to whom she was tied, but, much more, the Potterite, the user of cant phrases, the ignorant player to the gallery of the Pinkerton press, the fool who had so little sense of his folly that he disputed on facts with the experts who wrote for the _Weekly Fact_.

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'Sorry to be such an ass,' she said, more in her normal tone.

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It was only that silly ass, Clare, or else it was an accident.'

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Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team WILD WINGS A ROMANCE OF YOUTH BY MARGARET REBECCA PIPER 1921 CONTENTS I MOSTLY TONY II WITH ROSALIND IN ARDEN III A GIRL WHO COULDN'T STOP BEING A PRINCESS IV A BOY WHO WASN'T AN ASS BUT BEHAVED LIKE ONE V WHEN YOUTH MEETS YOUTH VI A SHADOW ON THE PATH VII DEVELOPMENTS BY MAIL VIII THE LITTLE LADY WHO FORGOT IX TEDDY SEIZES THE DAY X TONY DANCES INTO A DISCOVERY XI THINGS THAT WERE NOT ALL ON THE CARD XII AND THERE IS A FLAME XIII BITTER FRUIT XIV SHACKLES XV ON THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE XVI IN WHICH PHIL GETS HIS EYES OPENED XVII A WEDDING RING IT WAS HARD TO REMEMBER XVIII A YOUNG MAN IN LOVE XIX TWO HOLIDAYS MAKE CONFESSION XX A YOUNG MAN NOT FOR SALE XXI HARRISON CRESSY REVERTS XXII THE DUNBURY CURE XXIII SEPTEMBER CHANGES XXIV A PAST WHICH DID NOT STAY BURIED XXV ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE XXVI THE KALEIDOSCOPE REVOLVES XXVII TROUBLED WATERS XXVIII IN DARK PLACES XXIX THE PEDIGREE OF PEARLS XXX THE FIERY FURNACE XXXI THE MOVING FINGER CONTINUES TO WRITE XXXII DWELLERS IN DREAMS XXXIII WAITING FOR THE END OF THE STORY XXXIV IN WHICH TWO MASSEYS MEET IN MEXICO XXXV GEOFFREY ANNERSLEY ARRIVES XXXVI THE PAST AND FUTURE MEET XXXVII ALAN MASSEY LOSES HIMSELF XXXVIII THE SONG IN THE NIGHT XXXIX IN WHICH THE TALE ENDS IN THE HOUSE ON THE HILL CHAPTER I MOSTLY TONY Among the voluble, excited, commencement-bound crowd that boarded the Northampton train at Springfield two male passengers were conspicuous for their silence as they sat absorbed in their respective newspapers which each had hurriedly purchased in transit from train to train.

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CHAPTER IV A BOY WHO WASN'T AN ASS BUT BEHAVED LIKE ONE Baccalaureate services being over and the graduates duly exhorted to the wisdom of the ages, the latter were for a time permitted to alight from their lofty pedestal in the public eye and to revert temporarily to the comfortable if less exalted state of being plain every day human girls.

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"I suppose you think I made an awful ass of myself at college this year," he averred gloomily.

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You aren't really an ass, you know.

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She gives you entire credit for being the blind, stubborn, pigheaded jack-ass that you are."

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The fellow's an ass, an unobjectionable ass, it is true, but with all the ear marks.

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What if his grandson turned out to be a second Herbert Lathrop, an unobjectionable, possibly even an objectionable ass.

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"Sez I, 'You egrejus ass, that airs a wax figger--a representashun of the false 'Postle.'"

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Immediately behind are an ass and an ox.

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The summit of the mountain is an elongated ridge, which has been compared to the back of an ass.

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The Shah was then in a humour to protect the Christians; consequently, Nadân had his beard plucked out by the roots, was mounted on an ass with his face to its tail, and was driven out of the city with blows and execrations.

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Jerry was a fool-- "The world of fools hath such a store, That he who would not see an ass, Must stay at home and shut his door And break his looking-glass."

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It seemed very little hurt, though the vegetation that had apparently choked the great open space was singed to a black fluff, among which lay thousands of calcined bones of man, horse, ass, and camel, for all was distinct in the bright, yet so pensive and forlorn, moonlight, which was that Eastern moonlight of pure astral mystery which illumines Persepolis, and Babylon, and ruined cities of the old Anakim.

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'_ for I could not help it, and all that day, till sunset, we were very dear friends, for I could not part from her, we walking together by vor-alpen, wood, and shore all the way to Ouchy, she just like a creature crazy that day with the bliss of living, rolling in grasses and perilous flowery declines, stamping her foot defiantly at me, arrogant queen that she is, and then running like mad for me to catch her, with laughter, _abandon_, carolling railleries, and the levity of the wild ass's colt on the hills, entangling her loose-flung hair with Bacchic tendril and blossom, and drinking, in the passage through Cully, more wine, I thought, than was good: and the flaming darts of lightning that shot and shocked me that day, and the inner secret gleams and revelations of Beauty which I had, and the pangs of white-hot honey that tortured my soul and body, and were too much for me, and made me sick, oh Heaven, what tongue could express all that deep world of things?

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I thought by the accent it had been an apostrophe to his child; but 'twas to his ass, and to the very ass we had seen dead on the road.

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The lovely Zebra, Asia's painted ass, 'Stead of a den, and bed of straw possessor, Down to old Cambridge should have had a pass, To fill the office of some wise professor; Then, had he shown each antiquated quiz, His Zebra auricles were long as his.

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The offender is set upon an ass, with his face to the tail, and a label on his back, with the term _scheat_ or perjurer.

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Robin bounds out, and the hunt starts: Huggins-- Away he went, and many a score Of riders did the same, On horse and ass--like high and low And Jack pursuing game.

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If such be a man's lot after death, would it not be better to be born an ass than a man?

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Afterwards a hell was opened, where I saw two men, one sitting on a bench, holding his feet in a basket full of serpents which seemed to be creeping upwards by his breast even to his neck; and the other sitting on a blazing ass, at whose sides red serpents were creeping, raising their heads and necks, and pursuing the rider.

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I was told that they had been popes who had compelled emperors to resign their dominions, and had ill-treated them both in word and deed at Rome, whither they went to supplicate and adore them; and that the basket in which were the serpents, and the blazing ass with snakes at his sides, were representations of their love of dominion grounded on self-love, and that such appearances are seen only by those who look at them from a distance.

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Blazing ass upon which a pope was seated in hell, 265.

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And Harris never sees what an ass he is making of himself, and how he is annoying a lot of people who never did him any harm.

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Thus, for instance, Mr. Darwin builds a most ingenious argument on the tendency of the young of the horse, ass, zebra, and quagga, to bear on their shoulders and on their legs certain barred stripes.

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We had forgot that he was likewise a contributor to Mr. Southey's Omniana, where the Editor of the Edinburgh Review is politely denominated an "ass," and then _became himself a writer in the said Review_.

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If they did, why was there so wide a difference between the commandment respecting the stray man, and that respecting the stray ox or ass?

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As they remarked to us, if they were obliged to send an _ass_ to the Assembly, it was far better for _them_ to send a _white_ ass than a _black_ one.

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We met a brown young woman driving an ass laden with a great variety of articles.

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per week per annum 10 16 8 Pasturage for an ass, at 2s.

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per week, 1 12 6 Pasturage, two weeks, for an ass, 6s.

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If they did, why was there so wide a difference between the commandment respecting the stray man, and that respecting the stray ox or ass?

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As they remarked to us, if they were obliged to send an _ass_ to the Assembly, it was far better for _them_ to send a _white_ ass than a _black_ one.

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We met a brown young woman driving an ass laden with a great variety of articles.

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per week per annum 10 16 8 Pasturage for an ass, at 2s.

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per week, 1 12 6 Pasturage, two weeks, for an ass, 6s.

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The domestic animals of these states are, the horse, ass, mule, rumrah (a beast of burden in the mountainous parts), camel, dromedary, antelope, cow, dog, sheep, and large goat.

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I accepted the invitation, and away went the donkey, making himself as much like an arrow on the wing as any ass could.

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A horse is a horse, and an ass is an ass, no matter what stable you put them into.'

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The answer to that was: 'A touch will make a pig squeal: you should have said an ass!'

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'Well, there were curlews and plovers about, and a starving ass picking grass between the road and the bog-hole.

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If Bunthorne was an ass, he was at least clever, but this Wilkins--he was a whole drove of asses, and not a redeeming feature to the lot.

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The supercilious ass."

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"He's in clover now, and for the first time in his life, and the more of an ass he is the more he'll like clover.

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"A---," said he, using my abhorred name in full, "I believe you are a greater ass than your father was."

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In India, granite is hewn into hand-mills for grinding corn; two or four of which are a load for an ass or a bullock, and are thus carried to the bazaar for sale.

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An ass thrusting its head through the broken window of a country church, and braying aloud while the congregation are busily chanting "Old Hundred," or some other equally devout melody, is vexatious.

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"Ass!

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Why, are you such an ass as to suppose, that the sort of story you have been telling, can be of any service to you, either here or at the assizes, or any where else?

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Others also of the band paid the penalty of the law; and the ruffian crew, who escaped to the United States, now constitute a kind of nucleus for the "Lone Star," "Filibustero," and other such pests of the community to gather round, being ready at any moment to start on a buccaneering expedition, if they can only find another Lopez ass enough to lead them.

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Having nobody to blame but myself, I lost the little satisfaction I might have had in abusing somebody else, and calling him a stupid ass for making such a choice.

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--He retired, biting his lip, and as the door closed, I thought I heard the words "Meddling ass!"

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A Danish botanist, journeying alone upon an ass through the mountains of Abruzzi, was involved in several perilous adventures by this superstitious terror of the peasantry.

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As the child learns A for Ass or B for Bull or C for Cow, so man has learnt here to connect the simpler and stronger creatures with the simpler and stronger truths.

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G. K. CHESTERTON CONTENTS THE FOX AND THE GRAPES THE GOOSE THAT LAID THE GOLDEN EGGS THE CAT AND THE MICE THE MISCHIEVOUS DOG THE CHARCOAL-BURNER AND THE FULLER THE MICE IN COUNCIL THE BAT AND THE WEASELS THE DOG AND THE SOW THE FOX AND THE CROW THE HORSE AND THE GROOM THE WOLF AND THE LAMB THE PEACOCK AND THE CRANE THE CAT AND THE BIRDS THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW THE OLD WOMAN AND THE DOCTOR THE MOON AND HER MOTHER MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION THE LION AND THE MOUSE THE CROW AND THE PITCHER THE BOYS AND THE FROGS THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN THE MISTRESS AND HER SERVANTS THE GOODS AND THE ILLS THE HARES AND THE FROGS THE FOX AND THE STORK THE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING THE STAG IN THE OX-STALL THE MILKMAID AND HER PAIL THE DOLPHINS, THE WHALES, AND THE SPRAT THE FOX AND THE MONKEY THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG THE FIR-TREE AND THE BRAMBLE THE FROGS' COMPLAINT AGAINST THE SUN THE DOG, THE COCK, AND THE FOX THE GNAT AND THE BULL THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELLERS THE SLAVE AND THE LION THE FLEA AND THE MAN THE BEE AND JUPITER THE OAK AND THE REEDS THE BLIND MAN AND THE CUB THE BOY AND THE SNAILS THE APES AND THE TWO TRAVELLERS THE ASS AND HIS BURDENS THE SHEPHERD'S BOY AND THE WOLF THE FOX AND THE GOAT THE FISHERMAN AND THE SPRAT THE BOASTING TRAVELLER THE CRAB AND HIS MOTHER THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW THE FARMER AND HIS SONS THE DOG AND THE COOK THE MONKEY AS KING THE THIEVES AND THE COCK THE FARMER AND FORTUNE JUPITER AND THE MONKEY FATHER AND SONS THE_LAMP THE OWL AND THE BIRDS THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN THE SHE-GOATS AND THEIR BEARDS THE OLD LION THE BOY BATHING THE QUACK FROG THE SWOLLEN FOX THE MOUSE, THE FROG, AND THE HAWK THE BOY AND THE NETTLES THE PEASANT AND THE APPLE-TREE THE JACKDAW AND THE PIGEONS JUPITER AND THE TORTOISE THE DOG IN THE MANGER THE TWO BAGS THE OXEN AND THE AXLETREES THE BOY AND THE FILBERTS THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING THE OLIVE-TREE AND THE FIG-TREE THE LION AND THE BOAR THE WALNUT-TREE THE MAN AND THE LION THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE THE KID ON THE HOUSETOP THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL THE VAIN JACKDAW THE TRAVELLER AND HIS DOG THE SHIPWRECKED MAN AND THE SEA THE WILD BOAR AND THE FOX MERCURY AND THE SCULPTOR THE FAWN AND HIS MOTHER THE FOX AND THE LION THE EAGLE AND HIS CAPTOR THE BLACKSMITH AND HIS DOG THE STAG AT THE POOL THE DOG AND THE SHADOW MERCURY AND THE TRADESMEN THE MICE AND THE WEASELS THE PEACOCK AND JUNO THE BEAR AND THE FOX THE ASS AND THE OLD PEASANT THE OX AND THE FROG THE MAN AND THE IMAGE HERCULES AND THE WAGGONER THE POMEGRANATE, THE APPLE-TREE, AND THE BRAMBLE THE LION, THE BEAR, AND THE FOX THE BLACKAMOOR THE TWO SOLDIERS AND THE ROBBER THE LION AND THE WILD ASS THE MAN AND THE SATYR THE IMAGE-SELLER THE EAGLE AND THE ARROW THE RICH MAN AND THE TANNER THE WOLF, THE MOTHER, AND HER CHILD THE OLD WOMAN AND THE WINE-JAR THE LIONESS AND THE VIXEN THE VIPER AND THE FILE THE CAT AND THE COCK THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE THE SOLDIER AND HIS HORSE THE OXEN AND THE BUTCHERS THE WOLF AND THE LION THE SHEEP, THE WOLF, AND THE STAG THE LION AND THE THREE BULLS THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER THE GOAT AND THE VINE THE TWO POTS THE OLD HOUND THE CLOWN AND THE COUNTRYMAN THE LARK AND THE FARMER THE LION AND THE ASS THE PROPHET THE HOUND AND THE HARE THE LION, THE MOUSE, AND THE FOX THE TRUMPETER TAKEN PRISONER THE WOLF AND THE CRANE THE EAGLE, THE CAT, AND THE WILD SOW THE WOLF AND THE SHEEP THE TUNNY-FISH AND THE DOLPHIN THE THREE TRADESMEN THE MOUSE AND THE BULL THE HARE AND THE HOUND THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE THE LION AND THE BULL THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE APE THE EAGLE AND THE COCKS THE ESCAPED JACKDAW THE FARMER AND THE FOX VENUS AND THE CAT THE CROW AND THE SWAN THE STAG WITH ONE EYE THE FLY AND THE DRAUGHT-MULE THE COCK AND THE JEWEL THE WOLF AND THE SHEPHERD THE FARMER AND THE STORK THE CHARGER AND THE MILLER THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE OWL THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS THE FARMER AND THE VIPER THE TWO FROGS THE COBBLER TURNED DOCTOR THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS THE BALD MAN AND THE FLY THE ASS AND THE WOLF THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL THE SICK MAN AND THE DOCTOR THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PLANE-TREE THE FLEA AND THE OX THE BIRDS, THE BEASTS, AND THE BAT THE MAN AND HIS TWO SWEETHEARTS THE EAGLE, THE JACKDAW, AND THE SHEPHERD THE WOLF AND THE BOY THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THEIR ASS THE STAG AND THE VINE THE LAMB CHASED BY A WOLF THE ARCHER AND THE LION THE WOLF AND THE GOAT THE SICK STAG THE ASS AND THE MULE BROTHER AND SISTER THE HEIFER AND THE OX THE KINGDOM OF THE LION THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER THE LION AND THE HARE THE WOLVES AND THE DOGS THE BULL AND THE CALF THE TREES AND THE AXE THE ASTRONOMER THE LABOURER AND THE SNAKE THE CAGE-BIRD AND THE BAT THE ASS AND HIS PURCHASER THE KID AND THE WOLF THE DEBTOR AND HIS SOW THE BALD HUNTSMAN THE HERDSMAN AND THE LOST BULL THE MULE THE HOUND AND THE FOX THE FATHER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THE THIEF AND THE INNKEEPER THE PACK-ASS AND THE WILD ASS THE ASS AND HIS MASTERS THE PACK-ASS, THE WILD ASS, AND THE LION THE ANT THE FROGS AND THE WELL THE CRAB AND THE FOX THE FOX AND THE GRASSHOPPER THE FARMER, HIS BOY, AND THE ROOKS THE ASS AND THE DOG THE ASS CARRYING THE IMAGE THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT THE SHEEP AND THE DOG THE SHEPHERD AND THE WOLF THE LION, JUPITER, AND THE ELEPHANT THE PIG AND THE SHEEP THE GARDENER AND HIS DOG THE RIVERS AND THE SEA THE LION IN LOVE THE BEE-KEEPER THE WOLF AND THE HORSE THE BAT, THE BRAMBLE, AND THE SEAGULL THE DOG AND THE WOLF THE WASP AND THE SNAKE THE EAGLE AND THE BEETLE THE FOWLER AND THE LARK THE FISHERMAN PIPING THE WEASEL AND THE MAN THE PLOUGHMAN, THE ASS, AND THE OX DEMADES AND HIS FABLE THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN THE CROW AND THE SNAKE THE DOGS AND THE FOX THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE HAWK THE ROSE AND THE AMARANTH THE MAN, THE HORSE, THE OX, AND THE DOG THE WOLVES, THE SHEEP, AND THE RAM THE SWAN THE SNAKE AND JUPITER THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE WOLF MERCURY AND THE MAN BITTEN BY AN ANT THE WILY LION THE PARROT AND THE CAT THE STAG AND THE LION THE IMPOSTOR THE DOGS AND THE HIDES THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS THE FOWLER, THE PARTRIDGE, AND THE COCK THE GNAT AND THE LION THE FARMER AND HIS DOGS THE EAGLE AND THE FOX THE BUTCHER AND HIS CUSTOMERS HERCULES AND MINERVA THE FOX WHO SERVED A LION THE QUACK DOCTOR THE LION, THE WOLF, AND THE FOX HERCULES AND PLUTUS THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD THE FOX AND THE HEDGEHOG THE CROW AND THE RAVEN THE WITCH THE OLD MAN AND DEATH THE_MISER THE FOXES AND THE RIVER THE HORSE AND THE STAG THE FOX AND THE BRAMBLE THE FOX AND THE SNAKE THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE STAG THE MAN WHO LOST HIS SPADE THE PARTRIDGE AND THE FOWLER THE RUNAWAY SLAVE THE HUNTER AND THE WOODMAN THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE THE ROGUE AND THE ORACLE THE HORSE AND THE ASS THE DOG CHASING A WOLF GRIEF AND HIS DUE THE HAWK, THE KITE, AND THE PIGEONS THE WOMAN AND THE FARMER PROMETHEUS AND THE MAKING OF MAN THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW THE HUNTER AND THE HORSEMAN THE GOATHERD AND THE WILD GOATS THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE SWALLOW THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR THE HARE AND THE TORTOISE THE MOON AND HER MOTHER THE FIR-TREE AND THE BRAMBLE THE CRAB AND HIS MOTHER THE QUACK FROG THE SHIPWRECKED MAN AND THE SEA THE BLACKAMOOR THE TWO POTS VENUS AND THE CAT THE TRAVELLERS AND THE PLANE-TREE THE TREES AND THE AXE THE LION, JUPITER, AND THE ELEPHANT THE GNAT AND THE LION IN BLACK AND WHITE THE FOX AND THE GRAPES THE FOX AND THE CROW THE CAT AND THE BIRDS THE CROW AND THE PITCHER THE NORTH WIND AND THE SUN THE FOX AND THE STORK THE GNAT AND THE BULL THE FLEA AND THE MAN THE OAK AND THE REEDS THE THIEVES AND THE COCK THE OWL AND THE BIRDS THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN THE BOY BATHING THE DOG IN THE MANGER THE FROGS ASKING FOR A KING KING LOG THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL THE FOX AND THE LION THE DOG AND THE SHADOW THE BEAR AND THE FOX THE OX AND THE FROG THE MAN AND THE SATYR THE OLD WOMAN AND THE WINE-JAR THE CAT AND THE COCK THE SHEEP, THE WOLF, AND THE STAG THE GOAT AND THE VINE THE HOUND AND THE HARE THE WOLF AND THE CRANE THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE APE THE COCK AND THE JEWEL THE GRASSHOPPER AND THE ANTS THE BALD MAN AND THE FLY THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL THE MILLER, HIS SON, AND THEIR ASS THE WOLF AND THE GOAT THE KINGDOM OF THE LION THE KID AND THE WOLF THE MULE THE FROGS AND THE WELL THE GOATHERD AND THE GOAT THE WOLF AND THE HORSE THE FISHERMAN PIPING THE MONKEY AND THE DOLPHIN THE WOLF AND HIS SHADOW THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS THE GNAT AND THE LION THE FOX AND THE LEOPARD THE MISER THE HUNTER AND THE WOODMAN THE HORSE AND THE ASS AESOP'S FABLES THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A hungry Fox saw some fine bunches of Grapes hanging from a vine that was trained along a high trellis, and did his best to reach them by jumping as high as he could into the air.

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THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION An Ass and a Fox went into partnership and sallied out to forage for food together.

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THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG There was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog.

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The Ass was housed in the stable with plenty of oats and hay to eat and was as well off as an ass could be.

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At that the servants, seeing the danger their master was in, belaboured the silly Ass with sticks and cudgels, and drove him back to his stable half dead with his beating.

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THE ASS AND HIS BURDENS A Pedlar who owned an Ass one day bought a quantity of salt, and loaded up his beast with as much as he could bear.

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THE ASS AND HIS SHADOW A certain man hired an Ass for a journey in summertime, and started out with the owner following behind to drive the beast.

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THE ASS IN THE LION'S SKIN An Ass found a Lion's Skin, and dressed himself up in it.

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THE LION AND THE WILD ASS A Lion and a Wild Ass went out hunting together: the latter was to run down the prey by his superior speed, and the former would then come up and despatch it.

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Thanks to hard work and bad food, you have turned me from a Horse into an ass; and you cannot in a moment turn me back again into a Horse."

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THE LION AND THE ASS A Lion and an Ass set up as partners and went a-hunting together.

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"I should think you did," said the Lion: "why, if I hadn't known you were an Ass, I should have turned and run myself."

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THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LION An Ass and a Cock were in a cattle-pen together.

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The Ass was mightily elated at this, and thought that, if the Lion couldn't face a Cock, he would be still less likely to stand up to an Ass: so he ran out and pursued him.

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THE ASS AND THE WOLF An Ass was feeding in a meadow, and, catching sight of his enemy the Wolf in the distance, pretended to be very lame and hobbled painfully along.

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THE 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.

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THE ASS AND HIS DRIVER An Ass was being driven down a mountain road, and after jogging along for a while sensibly enough he suddenly quitted the track and rushed to the edge of a precipice.

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THE ASS AND HIS PURCHASER A Man who wanted to buy an Ass went to market, and, coming across a likely-looking beast, arranged with the owner that he should be allowed to take him home on trial to see what he was like.

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At the end of the day, exhausted by his unusual exertions, he said dejectedly to himself, "I must have been mistaken about my father; he can only have been an ass after all."

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THE PACK-ASS AND THE WILD ASS A Wild Ass, who was wandering idly about, one day came upon a Pack-Ass lying at full length in a sunny spot and thoroughly enjoying himself.

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Not long after the Wild Ass saw his acquaintance again, but this time he was carrying a heavy load, and his driver was following behind and beating him with a thick stick.

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"Ah, my friend," said the Wild Ass, "I don't envy you any more: for I see you pay dear for your comforts."

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THE ASS AND HIS MASTERS A Gardener had an Ass which had a very hard time of it, what with scanty food, heavy loads, and constant beating.

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THE PACK-ASS, THE WILD ASS, AND THE LION A Wild Ass saw a Pack-Ass jogging along under a heavy load, and taunted him with the condition of slavery in which he lived, in these words: "What a vile lot is yours compared with mine!

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At that moment a Lion appeared on the scene, and made no attempt to molest the Pack-Ass owing to the presence of the driver; but he fell upon the Wild Ass, who had no one to protect him, and without more ado made a meal of him.

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THE ASS AND THE DOG An Ass and a Dog were on their travels together, and, as they went along, they found a sealed packet lying on the ground.

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His driver, finding him so obstinate, hit him hard and long with his stick, saying the while, "Oh, you dunder-headed idiot, do you suppose it's come to this, that men pay worship to an Ass?"

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THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE ASS A Lion, a Fox, and an Ass went out hunting together.

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