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..... Donn P.
Crane THE GOBLIN AND THE MIRROR ..... Herbert N. Rudeen
THE SNOW-FLAKE AT LAST BECAME A MAIDEN ..... Herbert N.
Rudeen THEY FLEW OVER WOODS AND LAKES ..... Herbert N
Rudeen "HE IS BLOWING BUBBLES" ..... Herbert N. Rudeen THE
CROW STOPPED TO LOOK AT HER ..... Herbert N. Rudeen THE
REINDEER RAN AS FAST AS IT COULD GO ..... Herbert N.
Rudeen THE SNOW QUEEN'S CASTLE ..... Herbert N. Rudeen
PEGASUS AT THE FOUNTAIN ..... Herbert N Rudeen PEGASUS
DARTED DOWN ASLANT ..... Herbert N. Rudeen ST.
NICHOLAS ..... Herbert N. Rudeen IN VAIN PHAETHON PULLED
AT THE REINS ..... Donn P. Crane THERE WAS A LITTLE
CHIMNEY SWEEP, AND HIS NAME WAS TOM ..... Donn P. Crane

THEY CAME UP WITH A POOR IRISH WOMAN ..... Donn P.
Crane BEES AND HIVES ..... Donn P. Crane HARTHOVER
PLACE ..... Donn P. Crane ALL RAN AFTER TOM ..... Donn P.
Crane TOM LOOKED DOWN THE CLIFF ..... Donn P. Crane THE
OLD DAME LOOKED AT TOM ..... Donn P. Crane TOM LOOKED
INTO THE CLEAR WATER ..... Donn P. Crane SIR JOHN
SEARCHING FOR TOM ..... Donn P. Crane TOM WAS NOW A
WATER BABY ..... Donn P. Crane "OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL
CREATURE!" SAID TOM ..... Donn P. Crane TOM ESCAPED THE
OTTER ..... Donn P. Crane THE SALMON, KING OF ALL THE
FISH ..... Donn P. Crane TOM ON THE BUOY ..... Donn P. Crane
PORPOISES ..... Donn P. Crane A LOBSTER ..... Donn P. Crane
ELLIE AND THE PROFESSOR ..... Donn P. Crane MRS.
BEDONEBYASYOUDID ..... Donn P. Crane SHE TOOK TOM IN
HER ARMS ..... Donn P. Crane TOM FOUND THE CABINET .....
Donn P. Crane THE LAST OF THE GAIRFOWL ..... Donn P. Crane
AND BEHOLD, IT WAS ELLIE ..... Donn P. Crane HOLGER
DANSKE ..... Arthur Henderson THE FIGUREHEAD ..... Arthur
Henderson "MY DEAR GOOD HUSBAND" ..... Herbert N. Rudeen
THE FAIRIES OF CALDON-LOW ..... Iris Weddell White WHO
STOLE THE BIRD'S NEST? ..... Herbert N. Rudeen "FATHER, WHO
MAKES IT SNOW?" ..... Iris Weddell White "HELLO! I'M WET,
LET ME IN" ..... Donn P. Crane "SORRY TO INCOMMODE
YOU" ..... Donn P. Crane "PRAY SIR, WERE YOU MY MUG?" .....
Donn P. Crane "THOU HAST HAD THY SHARE OF LIFE" ..... Donn
P. Crane HE CAST THE FLASK INTO THE STREAM ..... Donn P.
Crane THE DWARF SHOOK THE DROPS INTO THE FLASK .....
Donn P. Crane MORDECAI IN THE KING'S GATE ..... Arthur
Henderson HE PUT ON SACKCLOTH AND ASHES ..... Arthur
Henderson THEN HAMAN WAS AFRAID ..... Arthur Henderson
PLUTO SEIZED PROSERPINA ..... Arthur Henderson IN TIME'S
SWING ..... Herbert N. Rudeen SO THE BARGAIN WAS MADE .....
Mildred Lyon

AESOP
Many centuries ago, more than six hundred years before Christ was
born, there lived in Greece a man by the name of Aesop. We do not

know very much about him, and no one can tell exactly what he wrote,
or even that he ever wrote anything.
We know he was a slave and much wiser than his masters, but whether
he was a fine, shapely man or a hunchback and a cripple we cannot be
sure, for different people have written very differently about him.
No matter what he was or how he lived, many, many stories are still
told about him, and the greater part of the fables we all like to read are
said to have been written or told by him, and everybody still calls them
Aesop's fables.
Some of the stories told about him are curious indeed. Here are a few of
them.
In those days men were sold as slaves in the market, as cattle are sold
now. One day Aesop and two other men were put up at auction.
Xanthus, a wealthy man, wanted a slave, and he said to the men: "What
can you do?"
The two men bragged large about the things they could do, for both
wanted a rich master like Xanthus.
"But what can you do?" said Xanthus, turning to Aesop.
"The others can do so much and so well," said Aesop, "that there's
nothing left for me to do."
"Will you be honest and faithful if I buy you?"
"I shall be that whether you buy me or not."
"Will you promise not to run away?"
"Did you ever hear," answered Aesop, "of a bird in a cage that
promised to stay in it?"
Xanthus was so much pleased with the answers that he bought Aesop.
Some time afterward, Xanthus, wishing to give a dinner to some of his
friends, ordered Aesop to furnish the finest feast that money could buy.
The first course Aesop supplied was of tongues cooked in many ways,
and the second of tongues and the third and the fourth. Then Xanthus