Fables for the Frivolous

Fables for the Frivolous

Guy Wetmore Carryl, american humorist and poet (1873-1904)


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Table of Contents

-01- About this book

-02- DEDICATION

-03- NOTE

-04- THE AMBITIOUS FOX AND THE UNAPPROACHABLE GRAPES

-05- THE PERSEVERING TORTOISE AND THE PRETENTIOUS HARE

-06- THE PATRICIAN PEACOCKS AND THE OVERWEENING JAY

-07- THE ARROGANT FROG AND THE SUPERIOR BULL

-08- THE DOMINEERING EAGLE AND THE INVENTIVE BRATLING

-09- THE ICONOCLASTIC RUSTIC AND THE APROPOS ACORN

-10- THE UNUSUAL GOOSE AND THE IMBECILIC WOODCUTTER

-11- THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER

-12- THE URBAN RAT AND THE SUBURBAN RAT

-13- THE IMPECUNIOUS CRICKET AND THE FRUGAL ANT

-14- THE PAMPERED LAPDOG AND THE MISGUIDED ASS

-15- THE VAINGLORIOUS OAK AND THE MODEST BULRUSH

-16- THE INHUMAN WOLF AND THE LAMB SANS GENE

-17- THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN

-18- THE MICROSCOPIC TROUT AND THE MACHIAVELIAN FISHERMAN

-19- THE CONFIDING PEASANT AND THE MALADROIT BEAR

-20- THE PRECIPITATE COCK AND THE UNAPPRECIATED PEARL

-21- THE ABBREVIATED FOX AND HIS SCEPTICAL COMRADES

-22- THE HOSPITABLE CALEDONIAN AND THE THANKLESS VIPER

-23- THE IMPETUOUS BREEZE AND THE DIPLOMATIC SUN