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This version changes the usual farmer into a carpenter.  And the fox with the burning tail does not run into the farmer's field but rather into the carpenter's home.  The stated moral is "Anyone who has bad intention will always suffer bad results."  Perhaps the best image in the pamphlet is the one repeated on the cover: the carpenter rejoices as he sees the fox run with his tail burning.  His rejoicing will soon stop!  The text editor has significant trouble with English idiom here.  There are too many errors to catalogue.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

The classic version of this fable has a stag eating from the vines that have given him cover.  The rustling of the leaves alerts the hunter.  In this version, a goat eats away so many of the grapes and leaves that the hunter, later returning the same way, can see him now.  The stated moral is "One who has no gratitude shall always be punished."  Perhaps the best images in the pamphlet include the cover picture of the frightened goat hiding from the fierce hunter and the picture of the goat's distended stomach after he has eaten so much.  The text editor has significant trouble with English idiom and grammar here.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

The classic version of this fable has a pet monkey suffer shipwreck with his master.  Dolphins, as the story goes, regularly pick up survivors and swim them ashore.  In the classic tale, the dolphin asks the monkey if he knows Piraeus.  Piraeus is the port of Athens.  The boastful monkey says that Piraeus is a good friend of his.  The dolphin plunges the lying monkey to his death.  In this version, a monkey sails alone on a raft and is thrown into the sea.  The rescuing dolphin asks if he knows the island to which the dolphin is swimming him.  The lying monkey boasts that it is full of animals.  The dolphin knows that that claim is untrue and throws the monkey off.  The stated moral is "A man's words reflects what kind of person he is."  As the form of this moral shows, the text editor has significant trouble with English idiom and grammar here.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This is the great "footprints" fable told in traditional fashion.  Perhaps the best image in this pamphlet is that of the old lion lying back and puffing hard after he has failed to catch a deer.  The stated moral is "Careful person will not easily be trapped by others' trick."  The text editor has significant trouble with English idiom and grammar here.  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This fable adapts the ancient Aesopic fable.  In that classic version, the cock refers the interloper to the "doorman" down below, who turns out to be a dog that pursues the interloper.  Here the wolf asks the cock to sing for him, and the rooster's crowing wakes up the dog below.  Perhaps the best image in this pamphlet is that of the cock sleeping soundly in the tree.  The stated moral is "He who thinks carefully will not be easily cheated by other."  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".

This fable adapts the classic version slightly.  In the classic version, the shepherd often decides by chance to have lamb for supper and, in the dark, picks the largest, who just happens to be the masquerading wolf on his first night in the flock.  This present version has the wolf eating sheep for some time; the shepherd notices, turns detective, and finds him.  It continues with the classic punishment of hanging the wolf for all to see.  The stated moral is "Do not trust anyone by his or her appearance."  The editor has trouble with several statements, for example, "He hung the fake sheep up on a tree.  The sheep's skin out so that could see the wolf."  The publisher's symbol seems to be two purple heads reading an open red book. There is a page of vocabulary on the inside back cover, with a picture of all six books in the series on the back cover.  The pamphlet is twelve pages long, about 7½" x 6¾".