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Taking that for another dog carrying something better, it opens its mouth to attack the "other" and in doing so drops what it was carrying. An indication of how old and well-known this story was is given by an allusion to it in the work of the philosopher Democritus from the 5th century BCE. Discussing the foolish human desire for more, rather ...
The dog and the famine 112 [12] IV.11 (6 additional stories) 134-139 The greedy barber's folly V.2 II.2 V.Frame III.10; IV.13 The three proverbs which stopped king from killing his own wives II.2.1 On hasty actions: Killing a mongoose in haste: 178A [12] V.Frame II.Frame 140 V.1 The wheel on the head of the excessively greedy V.2 The dead lion ...
In early tellings, there is sometimes a commentary warning against greed rather than a pithy moral. This is so in Jean de La Fontaine 's fable of La Poule aux oeufs d'or (Fables V.13), [ 3 ] which begins with the sentiment that 'Greed loses all by striving all to gain' and comments at the end that the story can be applied to those who become ...
There were later a stack of Latin retellings, but when La Fontaine related the story he preferred to underline the moral by calling it "The dog that left its prey for the shadow". Caxton (1484) keeps to the meaning of the Greek title - Of the dogge and of the pyece of flessh - while later English authors seem to have been influenced by La Fontaine.
A dog owner lets his shepherd dog starve from hunger, causing it to leave home. The dog meets a sparrow and accompanies it to the city. The bird captures meat and bread for the dog as a sign of gratitude. When they leave town, night falls, and they decide to go to sleep. During the night, a man in a horse carriage approaches the dog and sparrow.
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"A Dog's Tale" is a short story written by Mark Twain. It first appeared in the December 1903 issue of Harper's Magazine. In January of the following year it was extracted into a stand-alone pamphlet published for the National Anti-Vivisection Society. Still later in 1904 it was expanded into a book published by Harper & Brothers.