Aesop's fables / translated by S.A. Handford ; illustrated by Brian Robb.

1. A case for patience, 1 -- 2 Friend or foe?, 2 -- 3. Sour grapes, 3 -- 4. Actions speak louder than words, 4 -- 5. Fools die for want of wisdom, 5 -- 6. Dead men tell no tales, 6 -- 7. Look before you leap, 7 -- 8. Cut off your tails to save my face!, 8 -- 9. The fox and the mask, 9 -- 10. A lesson for fools, 10 -- 11. One-way traffic, 11 -- 12. Reaping without sowing, 12 -- 13. Taught by experience, 13 -- 14. The fox out-foxed, 14 -- 15. Blood-suckers, 15 -- 16. Men and lions, 16 -- 17. It is quality not quantity that counts, 17 -- 18 Disarmed, 18 -- 19. Third-party profit, 19 -- 20. A bird in the hand, 20 -- 21. The lion's share, 21 -- 22. A companion in fear, 22 -- 23. The mighty fallen, 23 -- 24. A respecter of persons 24 -- 25. Negotiating from weakness, 25 -- 26. A plotter out-plotted, 26 -- 27. The wages of treachery, 27 -- 28. Always in the wrong, 28 -- 29. Kindness III requited, 29 -- 30. The pot calls the kettle black, 30 -- 31. A communist dictator, 31 -- 32. Misplaced confidence, 32 -- 33. Born plunderers, 33 -- 34. Trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, 34 -- 35. Delusion, 35 -- 36. A case of mistaken identity, 36 -- 37. Second thoughts, 37 -- 38. Ready for action, 38 -- 39. As good as his word, 39 -- 40. Pride will have a fall, 40 -- 41. Town mouse and country mouse, 41 -- 42. We get the rulers we deserve, 42 -- 43. One is enough, 43 -- 44. A voice and nothing more, 44 -- 45. Making the punishment fit the crime, 45 -- 46. Too Big for Her Skin, 46 -- 47. A lesson learnt too late, 47 -- 48. Doubly disabled 48 -- 49. The imitative instinct 49 -- 50. A clumsy liar, 50 -- 51. Killed by kindness, 51 -- 52. A blood feud, 52 -- 53. Evil for good, 53 -- 54. Cursed above all cattle, 54 -- 55. United against the common foe, 55 -- 56. The best method of defence, 56 -- 57. Vengeance at any price 57 -- 58. A biter bit 58 -- 59. III-Judged rivalry, 59 -- 60. Caught on the blind side, 60 -- 61. Bitten but not shy, 61 -- 62. A breed of faint-hearts, 64 -- 63. The irony of fate, 65 -- 64. How the tortoise got its shell, 66 -- 65. A waste of good counsel, 67 -- 66. Slow but sure, 68 -- 67. The reward of the wicked, 69 -- 68. Repayment in kind, 70 -- 69. The jackdaw who would be an eagle, 71 -- 70. Hope deferred 72 -- 71. Getting the worst of both worlds, 73 -- 72. Borrowed plumes, 74 -- 73. A bird in the hand, 75 -- 74. Breach of promise,76 -- 75. Right of asylum, 77 -- 76. Fireside sketch, 78 -- 77. Tit for tat, 79 -- 78. Nature's punishment of discontent, 80 -- 79. When a man means business, 81 -- 80. Wan song, 82 -- 81. The victor vanquished, 83 -- 82. Discretion is the better part of valour, 84 -- 83. A different point of view, 85 -- 84. Misplaced confidence, 86 -- 85. The law of self-preservation 87 -- 86. Look before you leap, 88 -- 87. Born to trouble, 89 -- 88. Traitor's death, 90 -- 89. Cherishing a viper, 91 -- 90. The punishment of selfishness, 92 -- 91. Saveus in the time of trouble, 93 -- 92. A bad bargain, 94 -- 93. Feline sophistry, 95 -- 94. Once bitten, twice shy, 96.