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Aesop's Fables

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What does Aesop's Fables mean?

noun

  1. a collection of fables believed to have been written by the Greek storyteller Aesop
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Ibans have numerous animal fables that remind one strongly of AEsop's fables and the Brer Rabbit stories of the Africans.
Charles Hose; William McDougallThe Pagan Tribes of Borneo A Description of Their Physical Moral and Intellectual Condition, with Some Discussion of Their Ethnic RelationsProject Gutenberg ebook #3307
With the first text, which I am almost able to read, I will puzzle out the second and thus increase the small vocabulary which I acquired in the days when I was translating Aesop's Fables.
Jean-Henri FabreThe Life of the Fly; With Which are Interspersed Some Chapters of AutobiographyTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3422
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“Well, call on me if you want reliable information. He's so proud of you he is all swelled up like the toad in AEsop's Fables. If you have ever had an arm hurt like this, and can do anything, why, for pity sake, do it!”
Gene Stratton-PorterFrecklesProject Gutenberg ebook #111