The Fables of Aesop

PREFACE

It is difficult to say what are and what are not the Fables of Æsop. Almost all the fables that have appeared in the Western world have been sheltered at one time or another under the shadow of that name. I could at any rate enumerate at least seven hundred which have appeared in English in various books entitled _Æsop’s Fables_. L’Estrange’s collection alone contains over f...