202 ^ESOP'S FABLES 



Notes, pp. 246, 247.) The fable has found its way among 

 European folk tales in Germany, Poland, and Iceland. 



VII.— TOWN AND COUNTRY MOUSE 



(Ro. i. 12). 



Horace, Sat. II. vi. JJ. It must also have occurred in 

 Phaedrus, as the medieval prose version of Ademar contains 

 a relic in the Iambic Trimeter of the line — 



Perduxit precibus post in urbe?n rusticum. 

 Prior and Montagu elaborated the fable for political pur- 

 poses in their "Town and Country Mouse," 1687. 



VIII.— FOX AND CROW (Ro. i. 15). 



Phaedrus, i. 13. Probably Indian. There are a couple 

 of Jatakas having the same moral. There is an English 

 proverb : " The Fox praises the meat out of the Crow's 

 mouth." The fable is figured on the Bayeux tapestry. 

 (See Frontispiece to History.) Thackeray makes use of it 

 in his pot pourri of fables in the Prologue to The Newcomes. 

 It is perhaps worth while quoting Professor de Gubernatis's 

 solar myth explanation of the fable in his Zoological 

 Mythology^ ii. 251 : "The Fox (the Spring aurora) takes the 

 cheese (the Moon) from the Crow (the winter night) by 

 making it sing ! " 



IX.— THE SICK LION (Ro. i. 16). 

 Phaedrus, i. 21. 



X.— ASS AND LAP-DOG (Ro. i. 17). 



Not in extant Phaedrus, but must have been in the com- 

 plete edition, as the medieval prose versions preserve some 

 of the lines. 



