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'_"
Table of contents (by pages)
- 1: Fables for the Frivolous by Guy Wetmore Carryl
- 2: But the hare resumed his banter
- 3: And the jay opiniative Who
- 4: Illustration HE STROVE TO GROW ROTUNDER But ah
- 5: You'll learn to love this populist
- 6: And sniffed the silent oyster
- 7: The city rat could but meekly stammer
- 8: The shrewd little bulrush answered
- 9: ' TON BEAU PLUMAGE ' But gravitation's law
- 10: You're a fairly respectable dinner fish
- 11: Which caused the gnat to squall so
- 12: ' Quoth the piper quoting Burns
- 13: It twined the ulster round his feet