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Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2)

by Guy Wetmore CARRYL (1873 - 1904)

THE PATRICIAN PEACOCKS AND THE OVERWEENING JAY

Fables for the Frivolous is one of the earliest works by the American parodist Guy Wetmore Carryl. These fables are adapted from Jean de La Fontaine's original writings. The Aesop-style fables are written in verse, and are light-hearted re-tellings of fables from two centuries before, each ending with a moral and a pun. Among the more celebrated of the fables are The Persevering Tortoise and the Pretentious Hare, The Arrogant Frog and the Superior Bull, and The Sycophantic Fox and the Gullible Raven. ( from Wikipedia)

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THE ABBREVIATED FOX AND HIS SCEPTICAL COMRADES , THE ARROGANT FROG AND THE SUPERIOR BULL , THE CONFIDING PEASANT AND THE MALADROIT BEAR , THE DOMINEERING EAGLE AND THE INVENTIVE BRATLING , THE HOSPITABLE CALEDONIAN AND THE THANKLESS VIPER , THE ICONOCLASTIC RUSTIC AND THE APROPOS ACORN , THE IMPECUNIOUS CRICKET AND THE FRUGAL ANT , THE IMPETUOUS BREEZE AND THE DIPLOMATIC SUN , THE INHUMAN WOLF AND THE LAMB SANS GENE , THE MICROSCOPIC TROUT AND THE MACHIAVELIAN FISHERMAN , THE PAMPERED LAPDOG AND THE MISGUIDED ASS , THE PRECIPITATE COCK AND THE UNAPPRECIATED PEARL , THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER , THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN , THE UNUSUAL GOOSE AND THE IMBECILIC WOODCUTTER , THE URBAN RAT AND THE SUBURBAN RAT , THE VAINGLORIOUS OAK AND THE MODEST BULRUSH