Aesop's Fables; a new translation

Aesop

Capitolo 93

some percentage, if that is some kind of city you are founding, it will be a long
time before you find it tangles enough to fill him/it."




THE FISHERMAN PIPING


A Fisherman that the flute could play went down one day to the
sea-beach with his/her nets and his/her flute;  and, assuming his/her position a
stone that projects, started to play a motive, while thinking that the music is able
hands the fish that jumps out some sea. He kept on playing for some
time, but not a fish appeared:  he so finally threw down his/her flute and
you throw his/her net in the sea, and it made a great draughts of fish. When them
and he was disembarked he/she saw them leaping around on the beach, he cried, "You
scoundrels! You would not dance when I played the pipe:  but I have now stayed, You
cannot do anything other!"




THE WEASEL IS THE MAN


A Man picked once up a Weasel that was always crawling on the house,
and you/he/she was going only to drown him/it in a tub of water, when it implored very hard
for his/her life, and tells him, you don't have "Certainly the heart to put me
to death? You think as profit I/you/they have been in to clarify Your house of me the
mice and lizards that infested him, and it shows Your gratitude from
saving my life." "You has not been useless together, me The accord,"
does say the man: "but that killed the birds? Who stole the meat? No, no!
You make very more damage how good, and it dies you it is able."




THE PLOUGHMAN, THE DONKEY AND THE OX


A Ploughman subdued together his/her Ox and his/her Donkey, and you/he/she put to work to
you plough his/her field. It was a poor shift of a team, but it was the
better he could do, as he had but an only Ox. At the end of the day,
when the beasts had loosened from the joke, the donkey told the Ox,
"Well, we have had one hard day:  which of us it is to bring the house master?"
The Ox seemed amazed to the question. "Because", it said him, "You, to be
sure, as usual."




DEMADES E HIS/HER FABLE


Demades that the orator was speaking once to the Reunion to Athens;  but
the people were very careless to what he was saying, so he stopped him
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