PEDIATRICS Vol. 51 No. 4 April 1973, pp. 752
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Excerpt X: Shepherd's Boy and Husbandmen

Thomas E. Cone Jr. M.D.

Moral precepts have been taught by way of fables ever since Aesop (c.620-c.560 B.C.) introduced this literary form into Western literature. But the pithy style of an Aesopian moral often became the protracted moral lesson read by our children in their readers of the early 1800s. The fable below is a good example of this prolixity.1