Page 1 - Fables volume 1
P. 1

Fables


                                 Volume 1


                                       by

                          Jonathan S. Gluckman

             [Selected stories, revised and edited from the original book]



                                   Contents

          1.  How his Son-in-Law Earned the Great Lizard’s Displeasure          1
          2.  How the Fish Decided to Bypass Evolution                          4
          3.  How the Frog Orchestra Lost its Third Alto             8
          4.  How the Hippopotamus Caught a God in Gridlock                   11
          5.  How Paradise was Glimpsed by the Camel                  16
          6.  How the Snail Risked his Life in the Interest of Science                20
          7.  How the Cats Took Care of Complaints                          26
          8.  How Ten Thousand Termites Escaped from Captivity                  34
          9.  How the Troglodyte was Tracked Down                           43



                 Note: How the Dog Solved a Crime in the Flea Circus
                      appears in The Gluckman Occasional 1 (2012)



                       © 1983, 2019 Jonathan S. Gluckman


               In memory of Hilda Rothstein Levenson (1909-1980)

                        She swam us through a sea of books aware
                        We’d find the fluid path of order there.
   1   2   3   4   5   6