The Two Birds Made a Hearty Meal off the Tortoise

The Two Birds Made a Hearty Meal off the Tortoise

Richard Heighway

Photomechanical reproduction of pen and ink drawing.

4½ x 2¼ inches.

Joseph Jacobs,The Fables of Aesop, p.113.

The moral lesson enshrined: don’t be gullible or you may end up in a tricky situation. The story is told with dead-pan directness.

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Scanned image and text by Simon Cooke.

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