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             Two frogs dwelt in the same pool. When the pool dried up under the summer's heat, they left it and set out together for another home. As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, 'Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food. “The other replied with greater caution, 'But suppose the water should fail us. How can we get out again from so great a depth?” “A willful man will have his own way to his own hurt.”                  กบสองตัวอาศัยอยู่ในสระเดียวกัน เมื่อสระน้ำแห้งลงเพราะความร้อนในฤดูร้อน กบทั้งสองก็จากไปและออกเดินทางไปด้วยกันเพื่อจะหาที่อาศัยแห่งใหม่อื่นต่อไป   เมื่อทั้งสองบังเอิญเดินผ่านมาทางบ่อน้ำลึกแห่งหนึ่งซึ่งมีน้ำอยู่เต็มบ่อ กบตัวหนึ่งจึงเอ๋ยกับเพื่อนกบของมันว่า “เราจงมาอยู่กันที่นี่เถอะ ทำที่อาศัยอยู่ในบ่อแห่งนี้กันเถิดเพราะมันจะเป...

              A long time ago, there was an old man who had a donkey and a puppy. The donkey lived in a good stable and had very good food to eat. But the man made him do hard work everyday.   The puppy lived in the house doing nothing. It liked to jump and sit on the old man's lap and it liked to lick the man's face. The old man would laugh joyfully and fed the puppy with cake and milk.   The donkey saw this and was jealous. The donkey began to compare himself with the puppy. 'I have to work very hard while the puppy plays all the time,' the donkey thought. 'If I behave the same way, perhaps the old man may like me too,' the donkey thought.   So the next morning, while the old man was eating his breakfast, the donkey walked into the house. He ran around the table and tried to lick the old man's face.   As the donkey was bigger than the puppy, he knocked over and broke a jug full of water and a cup of honey. ...

              A number of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.   Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, 'O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.'   “Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.”                    แมลงวันฝูงหนึ่งพบโถน้ำผึ่งหกตะแคงไหลนองในห้องของคนทำความสะอาด และได้เกาะลงบนน้ำผึ้งเพื่อกินอย่างตะกละตะกราม   ขาของเหล่าแมลงวันติดหนึบอยู่ในน้ำผึ้งข้นเหนียว จนพวกมันไม่สามารถบินหลุดออกไปได้และหมดแรง พวกมันกำลังกำลังจะตาย และร้องอุทานขึ้นมาว่า “เพราะความโง่เขลาของพวกเราแท้ ๆ ที่หลงระเริงกับประโยชน์เพียงเล็กน้อยซึ่งทำลายตัวเราเอง”   นิทานเรื่องนี้สอนให้รู้ว่า “ความสนุกสน...

           A goatherd, driving his animals from their pasture to sunset, found that some wild goats had mingled with them. He shut up together with his own goats for the night.   In the morning it snowed very hard. He could not take the herd from the fold to their usual feeding-place. He gave his goats just enough food to keep them alive but fed the strangers handsomely, in the hope of enticing them to stay with his flock.   When the thaw set in he led them all out to feed and the wild goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains. The goatherd accused them of being very ungrateful for leaving him, when during the blizzard he had taken more care of them than he had of his own goats.   One of the wild goats turned out and called back: 'That is the very reason why we are leaving you. As you treated us better than the goats you have hand so long, it is clear that if others came after us, you would prefer them to ours...

          There was a farmer who had three sons. All of his sons were very lazy. No one helped his father to work in the field. No one cared to do any work. They only ate and slept. The farmer was very sad that his sons were lazy. One day the farmer became very ill. He called his three sons to tell them something. “I have a treasure for you but it is buried in the field. After I die you may dig it up,” the farmer said then and died. The three boys went to the field and dug the ground. They dug all day trying to find the treasure, but did not find anything. Next day they went to the field again and dug the ground more. But they did not find any treasure. The boys dug the field for many days. They did not find any treasure. Finally, the eldest son said, “Let us stop digging. We should grow corn in our field.” So they brought corn seeds and sowed them in the land they had been digging. After one month, the field was full of green corn see...

            One day long ago, some sailors set out to sea in their sailing ship. One of them brought his pet monkey along for the long journey. When they were far out at sea, a terrible storm overturned their ship. Everyone fell into the sea, and the monkey was sure that he would drown. Suddenly a dolphin appeared and picked him up. They soon reached and island and the monkey came down from the dolphin's back. The dolphin asked the monkey, 'Do you know this place?' The monkey replied, 'Yes, I do. In fact, the king of the island is my best friend. Do you know that I am actually a prince?' Knowing that no one lived on the island, the dolphin said, 'Well, well, so you are a prince! Now you can be a king!' The monkey asked, 'How can I be a king?' As the dolphin started swimming away, he answered, 'That is easy. As you are the only creature on this island, you will naturally be the king!'. “Those who lie and boast may end up in trouble.”   ...

       A Stag, very thirsty because of the heat, came to a river in a forest to drink some water.   He saw his shadow reflected in the water, and greatly admired the size of his horns, but felt ashamed of his weak and thin legs.  “I wish my legs were as beautiful as my horns,” he sobbed.   While he was lost in these thoughts, a Lion appeared at the river.   The Stag fled from the river in an instant, but his horns soon became entangled with the branches and he found himself stuck.    The Lion quickly caught up with him and captured him.    “How wrong I was to despise my legs which could have saved me now, had it not been for my horns which I so admired!” he cried.   “The most valuable things are often disregarded.”               กวางตัวหนึ่งรู้สึกกระหายน้ำมากเนื่องจากอากาศที่ร้อน ได้มายังที่แม่น้ำแห่งหนึ่งในป่าเพื่อดื่มน้ำ   มันเห็นเงาของตัวเอ...

              Once upon a time, there was a forest where plenty of birds lived and built their nests on the trees. There lived many kinds of birds who always quarrelled with one another.   One day there was a rhinoceros walking into this forest and saw that there were a lot of birds on the trees.   The rhinoceros which was hungry, banged a tree with his horn until a nest of the green bird fell down. Then the rhinoceros ate the nestlings in that nest.   The mother bird was very angry but she could do nothing. After the rhinoceros had ate all the nestlings, he walked away.   All the birds gathered and discussed their opinions. ' The rhinoceros will surely come back again,' said the red bird. 'We must get together to drive him away.' 'No, that rhinoceros is very big and strong,' said the green bird. 'I agree with you, we cannot drive him away,' said a yellow bird.    Because these birds were used to q...

             “Oh Father,” said a little Frog to the big one sitting by the side of a pool, “I have seen such a terrible monster! It was as big as a mountain, with horns on its head, and a long tail, and it had hoofs divided in two. “Tush, child, tush,” said the old Frog, “that was only Farmer White’s Ox. It isn’t so big either; he may be a little bit taller than I, but Icould easily make myself quite as broad; just you see.” So he blew himself out, and blew himself out, and blew himself out. “Was he as big as that?” asked he. “Oh, much bigger than that,” said the young Frog. Again the old one blew himself out, and asked the young one if the Ox was as big as that. “Bigger, father, bigger,” was the reply. So the Frog took a deep breath, and blew and blew and blew, and swelled and swelled and swelled. And then he said: “I’m sure the Ox is not as big as But at this moment he burst.    Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. ...

                 One day, while he was out walking, a fox saw a crow swoop down and pick up a piece of cheese in its beak. The crow then flapped its wings and flew up onto a high branch in a nearby tree. “Man, that’s a tasty looking piece of cheese,” said the fox to himself. “Hey, I should have that cheese. I’m the fox and I deserve it,” he said. “I’m a sly, smooth talking fox too. I’ll have it soon enough.” The fox walked over to the foot of the tree. “Hi ya, Miss Crow” cried the fox.  “How are you today?” asked the fox. “You’re looking mighty fine. Is there something different about you? Have you changed shampoo?” “Your feathers look so glossy and black and your eyes are sparkling like diamonds,” said the fox, flattering the crow. “Hey, have you lost weight? Your figure looks great,” “Wow, if you can sing as good as you look then I’ll have to call you Queen of all Birds” said the fox. Flattered by all the compliments...

               A lot lamb wandered to the edge of the woods where it was concentrated on grazing without being cautious. A hungry wolf walked out of the woods to go to the pasture where many sheep grazed. On its way, it met the lost lamb and was happy that it did not have to risk going to the flock where there were sheep dogs and watchful shepherds. “How nice that dinner has walked to me without me doing any work” it went to the lamb who was still grazing, unaware. The wolf ran towards the lamb to eat it. When the wolf got close, the lamb saw and tried to escape, but the wolf was too fast. As the wolf was about to kill the lamb, an idea struck in the lamb’s mind. The lamb pleaded, “Oh wolf! I know that I am going to die now. Will you be kind enough to fulfil my last wish?” The wolf asked, “What is your last wish?” The lamb replied, “I am fond of music. Before I die, I wish to hear you play the flute.” The wolf agreed and played the flute. When t...

              One day in a big forest, a hare ridiculed a tortoise that he had the short legs and slow pace. When the tortoise heard that ridiculous words, he laughed and replied “I will beat you in a race, though you can run as fast as the wind.” The Hare believed in his speed and thought that it was simple impossible, so he assented to the proposal. They agreed that the fox should choose the course and fix the destination.   On the day appointed for the race the hare and the tortoise started together at the course which the fox chose. The tortoise never stopped for a moment. He went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the destination. The hare ran faster than the tortoise, but when he nearly reached the end of the course he lay down carelessly by the wayside and fell fast asleep. At last the hare awaked up and ran as fast as he could. When he reached the goal he saw the tortoise was comfortably dozing after his effort...

                Once there was a poor woodcutter. Every day he went out into the forestto cut wood. He sold the wood he had cut to the villagers, but he very little money for it . One day as he was cutting wood his axe fell into the river.He could not get it out. He called out,” Help! Help!” But no one heard him and no one came. Suddenly a boy with wings appeared before him. It was Mercury.God had sent him to help the poor woodcutter. When he heard what had happened to the axe,he jumped into the river and came out with a silver axe in his hand. ” Is this your axe ?” he asked ” No,” said the woodcutter.  Then Mercury jumped into the river again.This time he took out a goldenaxe.” Is this your axe ?” he asked.” no” said the woodcutter. ” My axe is not made of gold or silver.It is made of iron.” So Mercury jumped into the rivera third time. This time he took out an iron axe.The woodcutter was very glad It was his axe.  Then Mer...

               Once upon a time a dog met a piece of meat unexpectedly. He gripped the meat in this mouth and went straight home to eat. On his way home while he was crossing a bridge over a brook, he saw his own shadow reflected in the water beneath. He misunderstood that it was another dog with another piece of meat double his own in size. With cupidity he wanted that meat also, so barked at the dog in the water threateningly to get his larger piece. But as he opened his mouth, the piece of meat fell out and dropped into the water. He lost both of meat in the water and his own. “If you grasp at the shadow you will lose the substance”                กาลครั้งหนึ่งนานมาแล้ว สุนัขตัวหนึ่งพบเนื้อชิ้นหนึ่งเรื่องโดยมิคาดฝัน มันคาบเนื้อชิ้นนั้นไว้ในปากและตรงรี่กลับบ้าน ระหว่างทางกลับบ้าน ขณะที่มันกำลังข้ามสะพานเหนือลำธารสายเล็ก ๆ สายหนึ่ง มันก็เห็นเงาของมันเองสะท้อนอยู่ในน้ำเบื้องล่าง ...

             An Ant nimbly running about in the sunshine in search of food came across a Chrysalis that was very near its time of change. The Chrysalis moved its tail, and thus attracted the attention of the Ant, who then saw for the first time that it was alive. “Poor, pitiable animal!” cried the Ant disdainfully. “What a sad fate is yours! While I can run hither and thither, at my pleasure, and, if I wish, -ascend the tallest tree, you lie imprisoned here in your shell, with power only to move a joint or two of your scaly tail. ” The Chrysalis heard all this, but did not try to make any reply. A few days after, when the Ant passed that way again, nothing but the shell remained. Wondering what had become of its contents, he felt himself suddenly shaded and fanned by the gorgeous wings of abeautiful Butterfly. “Behold in me,” said the Butterfly, “your much-pitied friend! Boast now of your powers to run and climb as long as you can get me to listen.” ...

               A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful girl, so he went to her parents and asked them to marry her to him. The old people did not know what to say. They did not like the idea of giving to give their daughter to the Lion, but they did not want to enrage the King of Beasts. At last the father said, “We are glad to marry our daughter to you, but we fear that you might possibly hurt her. So if you remove your claws and teeth, we will give her to you.” The Lion loved the girl very much, so he trimmed his claws and took out his big teeth. When he came to the parents again, they simply laughed in his face, and beat him out of their house. “Love can tame the wildest.”                     กาลครั้งหนึ่งมีสิงโตตัวหนุ่มตัวหนึ่งตกหลุมรักสาวน้อยรูปงามคนหนึ่ง มันจึงเข้าไปพบกับพ่อแม่ของหญิงสาวผู้นั้นและขอให้พ่อแม่ของสาวน้อยยกลูกสาวให้แต่งงานกับมัน   สองสามีภรรยาไม่เห็นด้วยกับสิ่งที่สิ...

           A little deer was nibbling tender grass happily until he accidentally wandered into the lion’s region.   The little deer saw the footprints of lions and felt scared. Because he had heard that lions were mean and would surely kill him.   A lion walked past and saw the little deer trembling on the ground.   The lion just walked past without paying attention the little deer but also wondering why the lion did not harm him.    After a while another lion walked past the little deer slowly looked up. The lion also walked past him like the other lion without turning his face to see the deer.   The little deer told his parents about his adventure.   “Foolishness make us scared.”                  กวางน้อยตัวหนึ่งแทะเล็มหญ้าอ่อนอย่างเพลิดเพลิน จนพลัดหลงเข้าไปในถิ่นของสิงโต   กวางน้อยเห็นรอยเท้าของสิงโตและรู้สึกหวาดกลัว เพราะมันไ...

            A kid sneaked off the herd to graze in the forest. He walked on and on until he was very far away from the herd.   When it was evening, he started to walk back. On the way he met a fox. The kid was frightened and tried to run away. But the fox was faster and blocked his way.   “Don’t try to run away. It is hopeless,” growled the fox. The kid stood still and thought of how to save himself.   Suddenly, he came up with a trick and spoke to the fox, “I have heard that you have a very beautiful voice.” “Now that I will be your food, let me have a chance to hear your voice.”   When the fox heard the nice words, he began to howl. His howl was so loud that it reached the dogs that looked after the goats.   The dog quickly ran towards the howl.  When the dogs arrived, they tried to chase the fox away. The fox could not fight the dogs. He had to leave the kid behind and quickly ran awa...

             There were villagers who had a cock. They wanted it to wake them up at dawn. The cock was kept at the far end of the village. Not far away, there was a fox that was waiting for a chance to catch the cock. One day, when there was no one around; the fox went to the cock. The fox said, “Handsome cock, do you know that your father and I are friends?”  “I remember that your father’s crowing was beautiful; so, your crowing must be great too. Can you crow for me?” the fox asked. Proudly, the cock agreed to crow for the fox. When the cock began to crow, the fox jumped up, held the cock in its mouth, and ran away. The cock was frightened and crowed louder for help.  The villagers heard the voice. “Look, a fox is stealing our cock,” they yelled, took sticks and followed them. The cock saw the villagers coming to help, it said to the fox, “Do you hear what they said? They won’t let you take me” “Tell them that I am yours and they will ...