'The Lioness and the Fox', an illustration by John Vernon Lord
in Aesop's Fables, Jonathan Cape, 1989, page 125.
The text:
The Lioness and the Fox
There was a competition among
all the animals, about which one could boast of the largest family. So a fox, who was their spokesman, came to the
Lioness, and criticised her for only having one cub at a time. “Yes, only one,” said the Lioness,
grimly; but that one is a lion.”
Moral: Judge merit by quality rather than quantity.
Text: JVL (2014).
Selected
parallels: L’Estrange 1/122. Chambry 194. Perry 257. TMI J281.1.
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