burden. The bull replies that he is indifferent either way and the moral is much the same as in the contemporary Phaedrus. The fable did not become generally known in Britain until a Latin verse translation appeared in Victorian textbooks and then versions in English fable collections. At the same time Paul Stevens published a diffuse French version in his Fables, published in Montreal (1857).

The Gnat's Challenge

Ademar of Chabannes, who had a history of forgery, came up with a story

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