These 2 pages of images had captured my imagination since 1970. The children's magazine it came from was what instilled in me the love of language and art, and of the language-art pairing, and this particular story with these particular illustrations were what cemented the love for me.
I have the top illustration larger so you can see the gorgeous details. (Yeah, it looks a little violent, but that's how that fable went and is no more violent than any Western fairy tales.)
On a somewhat unrelated note, I may take a break from the computer for a bit; I think I feel some carpel tunnel going on in my right wrist.
"To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act." ~ Anatole France (1844 - 1924)
