DaBoss, Author at Fables of Aesop

The Gardener Watering His Vegetables

The reason why wild vegetables are more sturdy than cultivated.

A Physician was chided for not giving timely advice when the man was alive.

A Beetle did not work to save for winter and suffered for that.

[Note: Also see Perry 373 for a similar story with a Grasshopper instead of a Beetle.]

Smaller men got more intelligence than larger men.

For awhile Zeus made the Fox king of animals but changed his mind.

At Zeus’ order, Hermes instructed Earth to allow humans to live and work.