"So awkward, so shambling a gait!" Mrs Crab did her daughter berate, Who rejoined, "It is true I am backward; but you Needed lessons in walking quite late."
"Never fear!" said The Brass to the Clay Of two Jars that the flood bore away: "Keep you close to my side!" But the porcelain replied, "I'll be smashed if beside you I stay."
To the Wolf, from whose throat Dr Crane Drew the bone, his long bill made it plain He expected his fee: Snarled Wolf--"Fiddle de dee, Be thankful your head's out again." ...
"Fine feathers," Jack thought, "make fine fowls; I'll be envied of bats & of owls:" But the peacocks' proud eyes Saw through his disguise, And Jack fled the assembly of fowls. ...
The Wind and the Sun had a bet, The wayfarers' cloak which should get: Blew the Wind--the cloak clung: Shone the Sun--the cloak flung Showed the Sun had the best of it yet. ...
A wolf, wanting lamb for his dinner, Growled out--"Lamb you wronged me, you sinner." Bleated Lamb--"Nay, not true!" Answered Wolf--"Then 'twas Ewe-- Ewe or lamb, you will serve for my dinner." ...
Three blind mice, See how they run! They all ran after the farmer's wife, Who cut off their tails with a carving knife; Did ever you hear such a thing in your life? Three blind mice.