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The Fisherman and the Little Fish is one of Aesop's fables. It is numbered 18 in the Perry Index. [1] Babrius records it in Greek and Avianus in Latin. The story concerns a small fry caught by a fisherman (or "angler") that begs for its life on account of its size and suggests that waiting until it is larger would make it a more filling meal ...
However, different morals were drawn by other writers. According to Babrius, only when one succeeds is it time to rejoice. [7] For William Caxton and Roger L'Estrange, the lesson to be learned is that there is a proper time and place for everything. [8] Other allusions to or analogues of the fable have varied widely over the centuries.
It passed up several small fish and ended up going hungry when the fish moved to cooler water, out of the heron's reach". [12] The telling too has travelled some distance away from the lakeside heron described in the Opusculum fabularum. Other versions for children claim Aesop as original author and spin out the detail of the original pithy fable.
Brownhills alphabet plate, Aesop's Fables series, The Fox and the Grapes c. 1880. Sharpe's limerick versions of Aesop's fables appeared in 1887. This was in a magnificently hand-produced Arts and Crafts Movement edition, The Baby's Own Aesop: being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. [94]
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The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]