A collection of nearly sixty fables from Aesop, including such familiar ones as "The Grasshopper and the Ants," "The North Wind and the Sun," "Androcles and the Lion," "The Troublesome Dog," and "The Fox and the Stork."
The town mouse, Johnny, lives under the floorboards of a house in Hawkshead. The country mouse, Timmie Willie lives in a cottage garden. In this story Beatrix Potter retells the fable from Aesop.