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Title: The Baby's Own Aesop

Author: Aesop and Walter Crane

Release Date: May 11, 2008 [eBook #25433]

Language: English

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THE
BABY'S
OWN
AESOP

Being the Fables Condensed in Rhyme
with Portable Morals
Pictorially Pointed
by

WALTER CRANE

Engraved & Printed in Colours by
Edmund Evans

London
Frederick Warne and Co.
and New York

[Illustration: BABY'S OWN AESOP]

[Illustration]

[Illustration]

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PREFACE

For this rhymed version of the Fables I have to thank my early friend
and master W.J. LINTON, who kindly placed the MS. at my disposal. I
have added a touch here and there, but the credit of this part of the
book still belongs to him.

Walter Crane

[Illustration: ENGRAVER EE & PRINTER]

[Illustration]

To the
Possessors of
"Baby's Opera"
&
"Baby's Bouquet"
with
Walter Crane's
Compliments

CONTENTS

[Illustration]

_Page_

9. _The Fox and the Grapes._

10. _The Cock and the Pearl._--_The Wolf and the Lamb._

11. _The Wind and the Sun._

12. _King Log and King Stork._

13. _The Frightened Lion._

14. _The Mouse and the Lion._--_The Married Mouse._

15. _Herc