Instead he used an adaptation of The Elm and the Vine in the book's third section of 'original fables'.

Unlike the original fable, the race is a major sporting event, as opposed to a challenge between the hare and the tortoise.

Artist and composer Joseph Vargo also wrote an original fable for this cd.

In all versions of the original fable, much is made of the poor fare upon which the country mouse subsists.

These latter-day versions of the original fable are spontaneously choreographed.

In the original fable, the dung beetle flew up to the home of the gods to punish the eagle for destroying its eggs.

His reading therefore reverses the moral order of the original fable.

It tells an updated science fiction sequel to the original fable in which Chicken Little is partly justified in his fears.

In neighbouring Guadeloupe original fables were being written by Paul Baudot (1801-70) between 1850 and 1860 but these were not collected until posthumously.

In the original fable as well as the 1943 short film, Foxy Loxy is a male fox.