XV.—HARES AND FROGS (Ro. ii. 8).
In medieval prose Phædrus.
XVI.—WOLF AND KID (Ro. ii. 9).
In medieval prose Phaedrus. Cf. Grimm, Märchen, v.
XVII.—WOODMAN AND SERPENT (Ro. i. 10).
Phædrus, iv. 19. Probably Indian, occurring in Mahabharata. The versions vary as to the threatened victim. In some it is the peasant himself; in others, it is one of his children after he arrives home. In one of the medieval prosings of Phædrus, by Ademar, a woman finds and nourishes the serpent.
XVIII.—BALD MAN AND FLY (Ro. ii. 12).
Phædrus, iv. 31. Probably Indian, from the Makasa Jātaka, in which a foolish son takes up an axe to kill a fly which is worrying his father's bald pate, but naturally misses the fly.
XIX.—FOX AND STORK (Ro. ii. 13).
Phædrus, i. 26. Occurs also in Plutarch, Symp. Quæst. 1. 5.
XX.—FOX AND MASK (Ro. ii. 14).
Phædrus, i. 7. In Caxton this becomes "The Wolf and the Skull," and so loses all point.
