proverb about the ostrich: "They said to the camel-bird, 'Fly'; it said, 'I am a beast': they said, 'Carry'; it said, 'I am a bird.'"
XXV.—HART AND HUNTER (Ro. iii. 7).
Phædrus, i. 12. Possibly Eastern. It has recently been collected in Madagascar. (Ferrand. Contes Malgaches, xvi.)
XXVI.—SERPENT AND FILE (Ro. iii. 12).
Phædrus, iv. 8. Told in the Arabic fables of Lôqman of a cat. Quoted by Stevenson, Master of Ballantrae.
XXVII.—MAN AND WOOD (Ro. iii. 14).
Medieval prose Phædrus. Indian. Found also in Talmud, Sanhedrim, 39b.
XXVIII.—DOG AND WOLF (Ro. iii. 15).
Phædrus, iii. 7. Told in Avian, 37, and Benedict of Oxford, of a lion and a dog.
XXIX.—BELLY AND MEMBERS (Ro. iii. 16).
Medieval prose Æsop. Occurs also in Plutarch, Coriol. vi. (cf. North's Plutarch, ed. Skeat, p. 6. Also North's Bidpai, ed. Jacobs, p. 64). It is said to have been told by Menenius Agrippa to prevent the Plebeians seceding from the Patricians in the early days of Rome (Livy, I. xxx. 3). The second scene of Shakespeare's Coriolanus is mainly devoted to this fable. Similar fables occur in the
