The book is part of a series of children's-youth classics - "Golden Feather."
In the fables of Ezop - these brief tales with an instructive end - allegorically reveal human weaknesses and shortcomings.
Typically, they are animals, each representing a certain human type: the fox - the crafty one, the wolf - the bully, the donkey - the self-lover, the camel - the naive one, etc.
Esopic fables - funny, sad and wise - are remembered all their lives. 
