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Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
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Selected Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
Alexander Calder
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All the imagination, whimsy, and invention that have made Alexander Calder's mobiles and stabiles so popular. 36 fables — in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark — with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes. Includes `The Lion in Love` and `The Hen That Laid the Golden Eggs.`
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Artist MonographsTHE CAT AND THE RAT
Four different animals were wont
(Rascally spirits all) to haunt
The hollow trunk of an aged pine:
Milady weasel with the long waist line,
Grip-Cheese, the cat, Mesh-Munch, the rat,
And one owl, a fowl disconsolate.
So many gathered at this one site
That a man laid out some nets one night
Around the pine-tree. Early next day,
The cat set forth to stalk his prey.
He failed in the murky light of dawn
To spot the trap. Heâs caught! Heâs gone!
He sets up a howl of desperation.
The rat comes running in great elation
To see his most deadly of enemies
Caught in the toils. Then cries Grip-Cheese:
âDear friend, the signs of your prodigality
Are numerous in my locality.
Come help me out of this trap where I fell
All unknowing. My heart did well
When, by some singular impulse, I
Made you the apple of my eyeâ
Sole among ratsâand lavished my love.
Iâm glad, I give thanks to the gods above
That I did. In fact I was going to prayers
Like a god-fearing cat, at dawn, and the snares
Snapped around me. My lifeâs in your hands.
Dearest, come and undo these bands.â
âWhatâs in it for me?â inquired the rat
âIâll swear a deathless concordat
With you,â said Grip-Cheese. âMy very claws
Are at your service. Youâll have no cause
To fear, Iâll guard you from all reprisal,
Iâll eat the owl-wifeâs mate and the weasel,
Whose feelings for you are distinctly cool.â
At that the rat replied, âYou fool!
Iâd be a sucker to set you free!â
And he made for his hole in the old pine-tree.
There, the weasel was on the prowl,
So he climbed higher and met the owl.
Danger lurked wherever he turned.
âTwas the lesser evilâMesh-munch adjourned
To the cat, and managed, bit by bit
To disengage the hypocrite.
Just then the trapper himself drew nigh,
So the new partnership had to fly.
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Later the cat saw the rat in the distance,
Alert and ready to make resistance;
âBrother,â he said, âCome give me a kiss;
Your wariness of me I take amiss.
Do you see your former partner as foe?
Do you think that I could forget that I owe
My life, after God, to you.â Said the rat,
âAnd I, do you think that Iâd forget
Your nature? What pact gives the certitude
That a cat has a sense of gratitude?
Does anyone, indeed, rely
On covenants made of necessity?â
THE HORSEâS REVENGE
Historically the horseâs place
Was not to serve the human race.
When acorns were manâs only foods
Horse, ass and mule could make the woods
Their home. And then one didnât see
As in the present century
So many saddles, so many packs,
So many carts, so many hacks,
So many trappings, so many gigs,
So many military rigs;
And along with fewer carriages
Went fewer feasts and marriages.
A horse sought vengeance, in the past,
Upon a stag, which went so fast
That he could never, on the run,
Be attacked by anyone.
Requiring more skill, the horse
To a human had recourse.
The man got reins and leaped astride,
Proceeding day and night to ride
Without repose, until the stag
Was overtaken by the nag.
When hi...