The Tortoise and the Birds

by Aesop

Versions of The Tortoise and the Birds include:

• "Of the Egle whiche Bare a Nutte in his Becke and of the Rauen", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Crow and a Muscle", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Tortoise and the Birds", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)