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the hand " is the English representation of the ancient fable 

 which has gradually ceased to appear among the popular 

 JEsops. 



LIV.— AVARICIOUS AND ENVIOUS (Av. xvii.) 



Avian 22. Probably Indian, occurring in the Pancha- 

 tantra. It has been recovered amono- the Indian folk of 



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to-day by Major Temple in his delightful JVide Awake 

 Stories^ p. 2155 very popular in the Middle Ages, occurring 

 as a fabliau, and used in the Monks' sermons. (See the 

 Exempla of Jacques de Vltry^ ed. Crane, 196.) Hans Sachs 

 used it, and Gower, Conf. Amant. ii. 2. Chamisso made it 

 the basis of his tale Abdullah. 



LV.— CROW AND PITCHER (Av. xx.) 



Avian 27. A similar anecdote is told in the Talmud, 

 Aboda Sara^ 30 a. It is therefore probably Eastern. 



LVL— MAN AND SATYR (Av. xxii.) 



Avian 29. Also in Babrius, ed. Gittlbauer, 183. From 

 Greek prose iEsop, 64. Our expression " blow hot and 

 cold " comes from this fable. 



LVIL— GOOSE WITH GOLDEN EGGS (Av. xxiv.) 



Avian 33. Probably Indian, as a similar tale occurs in 

 the Jatakas. 



LVIIL— LABOURER AND NIGHTINGALE 



(Alf. iv.) 



From Petrus Alfonsi, DiscipUna Clericalls, c. 1106 a.d. ; 

 a set of tales taken from Oriental sources to season sermons ; 



