... what is the big deal about these fables? Well, the big thing is they teach morale's. Something that is often lacking in today's society. For example, there is a story about a Cock that is searching for food-If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found ... purpose. I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world." Instead of the finder's keeper's mentality, the cock leaves the jewel and looks for food firstly because a jewel does him no good and secondly because it isn't the cock's. Anoth...

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... the barnyard. "The winner flapped up to a high spot and crowed and crowed to let everyone know about his victory. [ ] While the beaten Cock cringed in shame in the hole he had selected for himself, the victorious Cock continued to crow to call attention to his victory. He made so much noise that an Eagle heard him, swooped down and carried him ... off for dinner. The beaten Cock then crawled out of hiding and ran the barnyard to suit himself."" (Aesop, 130). In Aesop's cautionary tale the same lesson is being taught about the pitfalls of being too ... ...

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