Capitolo 28
from a succeeded astute stratagem. "As beautiful it is the Crow", he exclaimed,
"in the beauty of his/her form and in the beauty of his/her complexion! Oh,
if its voice were only equal to its beauty, she is able deservedly both
considered the Regina of Birds!" This that he has deceptively said, while having greater
the admiration for the meat that for the crow. But the Crow, all of his/her vanity
wakened up by the adulation astute, and anxious to disprove the reflection
you throw on his/her voice, prepared a strong caw and it allowed to fall the meat. The Fox
goes him to quickly take, and so it addressed the Crow: The "my good Crow, Your
voice enough it is correct, but Your intelligence is wanting."
He who listen to the adulation it is not wise, for him any good purpose has.
The Swallow and the Crow.
The Swallow and the Crow had an argument on their plumage. The Crow
puts an end to the dispute saying: The "Your pens are very well entirely in
the spring, but mine protect me against the winter."
Excellent friends of time are not worth a lot.
The Hen and the Gilded Eggs.
[The illustration]
A Cottager and his/her wife had a Hen that placed every day a gilded egg.
Yours supposed that owes to contain a great gold clot in his in,
and it killed him in order that is probable that finds him/it to them, when, to their surprise,
theirs founded that the Hen differed in any respect from their other hens.
The foolish pair, hoping so to become once all in rich, deprived
them of the profit of which they was insured day by day.
[The illustration]
The Old Man and Death.
An old man had a job in penetrating wood in the forest, and, in to bring
the fagots in the city for sale. One day, being very tired with his
from a lot of trips, he sat him from the border, and, throwing down his/her load,
"Death" implored for coming. "Death" it immediately appeared, in answer to his
you quote, and he/she asked that reason he had called him. The old man
answered: "That, lifting on the load, you can put again it on mine
shoulders."
We don't like to always be taken to our word.