The Thief and His Mother

by Aesop

Versions of The Thief and His Mother include:

• "Of a Yonge Theef and of his Moder", translated by William Caxton, edited by Joseph Jacobs, in The fables of Aesop, as first printed by William Caxton in 1484 (1484)
• "A Boy and his Mother", in Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists (1692)
• "The Thief and his Mother", translated by George Fyler Townsend, in Three Hundred Æsop's Fables (1867)
• "The Young Thief and his Mother", translated by Joseph Jacobs, edited by Joseph Jacobs, illustrated by Richard Heighway, in The Fables of Æsop (1894)