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proverb about the ostrich : " They said to the camel-bird, 

 c Fly ' ; it said, c I am a beast ' : they said, c Carry ' ; it said, 

 ' I am a bird.' " 



XXV.— HART AND HUNTER (Ro. iii. 7). 



Phaedrus, i. 12. Possibly Eastern. It has recently been 

 collected in Madagascar. (Ferrand. Contes Malgaches, xvi.) 



XXVI.— SERPENT AND FILE (Ro. iii. 12). 



Phaedrus, iv. 8. Told in the Arabic fables of Loqman 

 of a cat. Quoted by Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae. 



XXVII.— MAN AND WOOD (Ro. iii. 14). 



Medieval prose Phaedrus. Indian. Found also in 

 Talmud, Sanhedrim, 39A 



XXVIII.— DOG AND WOLF (Ro. iii. 15). 



Phaedrus, iii. 7. Told in Avian, 37, and Benedict of 

 Oxford, of a lion and a dog. 



XXIX.— BELLY AND MEMBERS (Ro. iii. 16). 



Medieval prose iEsop. Occurs also in Plutarch, Coriol. 

 vi. (cf. North's Plutarch, ed. Skeat, p. 6. Also 

 North's Bidpai, ed. Jacobs, p. 64). It is said to have been 

 told by Menenius Agrippa to prevent the Plebeians seceding 

 from the Patricians in the early days of Rome (Livy, I. 

 xxx. 3). The second scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus is 

 mainly devoted to this fable. Similar fables occur in the 



