October 1, 2009 
Lion and the mouse by Aesop
One day a mouse was speeding up and down a sleeping lion who awoke and prepared to devour the mouse.
The little creature asked for pardon and said he would help the lion in the future.
The lion thought this was so funny, that he let the mouse go free.
Days later the lion was caught by hunters, while they were looking for a wagon, the mouse happened to pass by.
Seeing the sad plight of the lion, the mouse gnawed the ropes and set the lion free.
Ending with this quote: “Little friends make good friends.”
Fox and Crow V. 3 by Aesop
A fox once saw a crow fly off with a piece of cheese in it’s mouth and land on a tree.
The Crony for Baloney was crafty indeed and flattered the crow into singing.
It was the crow’s undoing and the cheese fell to the fox.
Before leaving he gave a piece of advice to the crow.
“Do not trust flatterers.”
The Fox and the Crow 1.0.
One day a Fox spied a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese, he followed and found the bird in a tree.
“Ah, Mistress Crow,” hooted the Sly One, “I’ am sure you are the most beautiful bird ever.” and other sorts of compliments etc. etc.
After doing so, The Crony for Baloney asked her to sing just one song that he might call her the Queen of Birds.
It was her undoing; when The Vain One opened her mouth to sing, the cheese fell out of her mouth.
The Common Thief snatched it up, and barked to the crow, “Thank you, that was all I wanted, now here is a piece of advice for the future:
Never trust flatterers.”
The Fox and the Crow by Aesop
There was once a fox that saw a crow steal a piece of cheese and fly up into a tree.
The fox went under the tree and started complimenting the crow saying things like, “You look so good today, your feathers are so glossy.” ect… ect…
Then the crafty fox says to the crow, “I would like to hear you sing that I may call you Queen of the Birds.”
The crow tries to make the most beautiful caw and in doing so drops the cheese.
Reynard gives a word of advice to the crow before leaving with the cheese, “Never trust flatterers.”
Cornelia’s Jewels
Two boys were standing in a garden watching their mother and her friend, “Our mothers friend looks like a queen.” One of them said, “Yes she does look like a queen,” the other agreed, “But she does not have a noble and kind face like our mother.” He pointed out.
Just then their mother came down from the walkway and said “Boys, we are going to eat with my friend.” She announced.
Cornelia was dressed in a simple white robe leaving her arms and feet bare as was the custom in those days.
The friend told a slave to go and fetch her jewels, they were brought out in a casket and opened, leaving the boys dumbfounded at the bright diamonds.
Then Cornelia’s friend popped a question, “Do you have any jewels?”
Cornelia took both boys and said, “These are my jewels!”
The Moon by Seymour Simon
Earth’s moon is a big rock which is lighted by the sun and has many craters, some only a few feet long, it was first explored by the spacecraft Apollo 11, among the crew was Neil Armstrong, the first astronaut to step on the moon.
In the future, another Apollo mission would come and find a rock which scientists found to be was more than 3 billion years old.
If you weighed 60 pounds on earth, you would be 10 pounds on Earth’s moon, divide your weight by 6 and you get your moon weight.
Your Place in the universe
Things I learned:
The Human Brain is (really) complex.
Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope completed 1917.
Edwin Hubble used this telescope from 1889-1953.
The Tower of London Torture
- Criminals spend time in a prison.
- They go to a rack to be stretched every few weeks.
- They go through a few trials.
- If found guilty the criminals are led to be executed.
- First, they hang the criminal and bring him down alive.
- Second, they cut the guys guts out and burn them before the dude.
- And third, the chop off his head.
(This is what happened to St. Edmund Campion)
