In verse.

Cover title. Caption title: Old fables in a new dress. Wrapper border bears titles of the individual fables: The fox and the stork The nightingale and the glow-worm The fox and the grapes. The frog and the rat The hog and the acorns. The ass and the sheep. The ox and the frogs. The city and country-rat. The fox and the mask. The man and his coat. The dog in the manger. The lily and the rose. The boy and the wasp. The sick lion.

Series lists on lower cover include the Over the hill's [sic] series "with designs by Miss Ida Waugh." Waugh's book Over the hills was copyrighted by McLoughlin Bros. in 1882. Several other works mentioned in advertisement were advertised as "New stock for the seasons of 1882 and 1883" in the McLoughlin Bros. catalogue for that year, including The cruise of the walnut shell, Hans Thumbling, Pantomime toy books, Shakesperian series, and the Greenaway Mother Goose series.

Cover included in pagination.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.