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XXXVII.— TREE AND REED (Ro. iv. 20). 



Not from Phaedrus, nor in the original Romulus, but 

 inserted by Stainhowel at the end of his selections from 

 " Romulus " to make up the number twenty of the fourth 

 book. Probably from Avian 16, though it also occurs in 

 the prose iEsop, Ed. Halm, 179 (which is ultimately derived 

 from Babrius 36). It is probably Indian, as in Mahabharata 

 the Sea complains that the Rivers bring down to it oaks, 

 but not reeds. It occurs also in the Talmud, Tanith 20. b. 

 Cf. the line in the dirge in Cymbeline, " To thee the reed is as 

 the oak." Wordsworth's poem : 77?^? Oak and the Broom 

 develops the subject at great length. 



XXXVIII.— FOX AND CAT (Ex. v. 5). 



Probably from Marie de France, 98. There was a 

 Greek proverb on the subject, attributed to Ion (Leutsch, 

 Paraeom. Graecl, i. 147). The tale has got among the 

 Folk, Grimm 75, Halm, Griech. M'dhrch. 91. 



XXXIX.— WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING 



(Ex. v. 15). 



Practically derived from Matt. vii. 15. Thackeray makes 

 effective use of it in the prologue to The Newcomes. As a 

 matter of fact it does not occur in any of the collections 

 attributed to iEsop. L'Estrange gives it as number 328, 

 from Abstemius, an Italian fabulist, circa 1450. 



XL.— DOG IN THE MANGER (Ex. v. n). 



It is difficult to trace how this fable got so early into the 

 Stainhowel. It is told very shortly of a Dog and a Horse 

 by Lucian, Adv. in Doct. 30, but is not included in the 



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