Week 12 Reading Notes: Aesop's Fables: Foxes, Part A

"The Fox and the Crow" Source

The Fox and the Crow:

    

    This story is about a Crow who sat atop a tree branch after it had stolen a piece of cheese from a house. The fox saw the crow with the cheese and being the trickster he was, decieved the crow into dropping the cheese and the fox ate it. The fable was very well writen and rhymed throughout. It was kind of hard to read as there were words that I had never heard of before, but I made it throug while understanding most of it. The fox was charming and cunning and seemed to be trustworthy to the crow, but this showed to be costly as the bird lost its meal. 

The Fox and the Eagle:

    Once again, this story was difficult to read but I eventually started to understand what it was saying. I believe an Eagle swooped down and stole the foxes kids from her and took them up into a tree. The Eagle saw the babies as food and had the intention of eating them. The Fox hatched a plan to get the kids back and it was successful. 

The Fox and the Goat:

    In this story the fox is a trickster once more. The fox went to a well and fell in. Some time later a goat walked to the well to get a drink and noticed it tasted a bit different and wanted to investigate why this was, so it looked down the well and saw the fox. The fox decieved the goat into coming down into the well and used the goat as a step to get out of the well and the goat was now the one that was stuck. 

Bibliography: "The Fables of Phaedrus" by Christopher Smart