THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER

Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2)

by Guy Wetmore CARRYL (1873 - 1904)

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)

Listen next episodes of Fables for the Frivolous (Version 2):
THE ABBREVIATED FOX AND HIS SCEPTICAL COMRADES , THE CONFIDING PEASANT AND THE MALADROIT BEAR , THE HOSPITABLE CALEDONIAN AND THE THANKLESS VIPER , 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 SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND THE GULLIBLE RAVEN , THE URBAN RAT AND THE SUBURBAN RAT , THE VAINGLORIOUS OAK AND THE MODEST BULRUSH