[5] 'Fables Original and Selected,' by G. Moir Bussey. London: Willoughby and Co., 1842.
[6] 'The Fables of Æsop,' as first printed by William Caxton in 1484. London: David Nutt, 1889, vol. i., p. 204.
[7] 'The Tatler,' No. 147, vol. iii., p. 205.
[8] 2 Samuel xii. 1-7.
CHAPTER II.
CHARACTERISTICS OF FABLES.
'To hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to Nature.'
Shakespeare: Hamlet.