An old woman and a little boy were sleeping blissfully in a nice big bed. A big fat ugly mosquito plunged from a nail holding up a painting and…scoured the old dear, scoured the boy…and sucked the little one’s blood. A fly that was half-asleep was awoken by the loud buzzing, and on observing the…
Once upon a time there was a hunchbacked shepherd lad who had ten decrepit sheep, and struggled terribly to make a living. The little wool he had paid for the grazing, and the bit of milk that he struggled to squeeze from the sheep’s udders was made into cheese he exchanged for the few things…
Once upon a time there was a very young sewer rat that was suffering from a nasty attack: a tic of the eyes, a lot of coughing and restlessness, fear and open mouth. He had already had this horrible muddle on him for a year, when they all started calling him Tic Rat. “It’s stress!”…
A smiling fox was walking with his friend, a strange animal that was unknown to everyone; no one had seen one like that before. He wasn’t ugly; on the contrary he was rather handsome. All the hens stopped laying eggs and came running along; they were curious, and stuck their pointy-heads out of the hedge…
One day a fly decided to imitate the spider and build a cobweb, partly because she was tired of looking for food, and partly because she wanted to be an artist. She had no thread, but thought that she could use something else instead. Not having any knowledge of the interweaving of the web, she…
The hen had found a nice fat, pink worm between the bushes and the mud. Before eating it, she was happily rolling it around with her beak and yellow claws. A white rooster speckled with red, whose comb was red hot from the sun realised from her behaviour, that she had a small treasure between…
Once upon a time there was a polecat that was so very, very hungry, that all her eyes could see were roosters and hens everywhere. She roamed desperately for three days under the burning sun, without finding a thing. All she found was a porcupine that only filled her belly with spines. All of a…
On seeing the tiny little birds hurling across the sky and almost touching the clouds, the little white rabbit felt extremely miserable. He saw himself as ugly and clumsy, with those long ears that he almost trampled on with his paws. The poor thing cried and moaned; this had gone on for almost a month,…
Once upon a time there was a very rich cat, that was a friend of a very poor cat. The very rich cat lived in a glittering, majestic palace. The rooms were all embellished with delightful Chinese silk tapestries on the walls, and the ceilings with precious frescoes. A vast garden surrounded the house,…
Once upon a time in the countryside, a hen had laid an egg right in the middle of a swamp, when suddenly she was spotted by a…no, no! One really can’t start the fable like this. Once upon a time there was an unhappy hen under a bridge…nooo. No! Once upon a time there was…