FABLES FOR THE
FRIVOLOUS
(With Apologies to La Fontaine)
By GUY WETMORE CARRYL
With Illustrations by Peter Newell
1898
FABLES FOR THE FRIVOLOUS
TO
MY FATHER
NOTE:
I have pleasure in acknowledging the courteous permission
the editors to reprint in this form such of the following fables
were originally published in Harper's periodicals, in Life,
and Munsey's Magazine.
G. W. C.
CONTENTS
THE AMBITIOUS FOX AND THE
UNAPPROACHABLE GRAPES
THE PERSEVERING TORTOISE
AND THE PRETENTIOUS HARE
THE PATRICIAN PEACOCKS
AND THE OVERWEENING JAY
THE ARROGANT FROG AND THE
SUPERIOR BULL
THE DOMINEERING EAGLE AND
THE INVENTIVE BRATLING
THE ICONOCLASTIC RUSTIC
AND THE APROPOS ACORN
THE UNUSUAL GOOSE AND THE
IMBECILIC WOODCUTTER
THE RUDE RAT AND THE
UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER
THE URBAN RAT AND THE
SUBURBAN RAT
THE IMPECUNIOUS CRICKET
AND THE FRUGAL ANT
THE PAMPERED LAPDOG AND
THE MISGUIDED ASS
THE VAINGLORIOUS OAK AND
THE MODEST BULRUSH
THE INHUMAN WOLF AND THE
LAMB SANS GENE
THE SYCOPHANTIC FOX AND
THE GULLIBLE RAVEN
THE MICROSCOPIC TROUT
AND THE MACHIAVELIAN FISHERMAN
THE CONFIDING PEASANT
AND THE MALADROIT BEAR
THE PRECIPITATE COCK AND
THE UNAPPRECIATED PEARL
THE ABBREVIATED FOX AND
HIS SCEPTICAL COMRADES
THE HOSPITABLE
CALEDONIAN AND THE THANKLESS VIPER
THE IMPETUOUS BREEZE AND
THE DIPLOMATIC SUN
ILLUSTRATIONS
"THE FOX RETREATED OUT OF RANGE"
"HE STROVE TO GROW ROTUNDER"
"AN ACORN FELL ABRUPTLY"
"SAID SHE, 'GET UP, YOU BRUTE YOU!'"
"'J'ADMIRE,' SAID HE, 'TON BEAU PLUMAGE'"
"AND SO A WEIGHTY ROCK SHE AIMED"
THE
END