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XV.— HARES AND FROGS (Ro. ii. 8). 

 In medieval prose Phaedrus. 



XVI.— WOLF AND KID (Ro. ii. 9). 

 In medieval prose Phaedrus. Cf. Grimm, Marchen^ v. 



XVII.— WOODMAN AND SERPENT 



(Ro. i. 10). 



Phaedrus, iv. 19. Probably Indian, occurring in Maha- 

 bharata. The versions vary as to the threatened victim. In 

 some it is the peasant himself; in others, it is one of his 

 children after he arrives home. In one of the medieval 

 prosings of Phaedrus, by Ademar, a woman finds and 

 nourishes the serpent. 



XVIIL— BALD MAN AND FLY (Ro. ii. 12). 



Phaedrus, iv. 31. Probably Indian, from the Makasa 

 Jataka, in which a foolish son takes up an axe to kill a fly 

 which is worrying his father's bald pate, but naturally misses 

 the flv. 



XIX.— FOX AND STORK (Ro. ii. 13). 

 Phaedrus, i. 26. Occurs also in Plutarch, Symp. Whitest. 



1.5. 



XX.— FOX AND MASK (Ro. ii. 14). 



Phaedrus, i. 7. In Caxton this becomes " The Wolf 

 and the Skull," and so loses all point. 



