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Acknowledgments

acknowledgments WITHOUT TWO SUMMER grants-in-aid from the Research Committee of the University of Alabama this edition would not have been possible. Nor would it have been possible without the full co-operation of the heirs, trustee and executor of the estate of the late William Edward March Campbell. I am especially indebted to the following persons who have encouraged me in this undertaking and who allow"ed me to use their typescripts of the Fables: Mrs. Patty Campbell Maxwell, Mrs. Margaret Campbell Jones, and Mr. Paul Strickland. Each of these copies is unique, and together they have formed the bases of the present text. In addition, I have received valuable counsel and guidance from Mr. J. Finley McRae and Mr. M. B. Slaughter of The Merchants National Bank of Mobile; Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas S. McGowin of Mobile; Miss Marion Davenport of Fairhope; Mrs. Marie Campbell Haley and Mrs. C. E. McCrory of Tuscaloosa; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Campbell of New York; and Mr. Ivan von Auw, Jr., of Harold Ober Associates, New York. The following magazines and newspapers, which I gratefully acknowledge, printed earlier versions of these fables: Accent (The Young Poet and the Worm, The Stableboy, The Screech Owl and the Farmer), Kansas Magazine (Aesop and King Croesus, The Prayer That Was Almost Answered, The Fisherman and the Hen, The Nightingale That Listened to Men, The King and the Plotters, The Wolves and the Work Animals, The Monkey Hill, The Distinguished and the Obscure), Prairie Schooner (The Persimmon Tree, The Peacock and His Bride, The Woodcutter and the Lion, Men and the Other Animals, The Slave and the Cart Horse, The Proud Queen, The Shepherd and His Monument, The Tears of the Rich, The Hangman and the Hero, The Mink and the Tame Animals, The Strangers, The Unique Quality of Truth), Rocky Mountain Review (The Elephants and the Antelopes, The Traitorous Jackal, The Doubting Ducks, Cowards and Fearless Men, The Mongoose and the Cobra, The Criminal Female, The Visitor and the Razorback Hogs), Tanager (The Farmer Boy and the Ladies, The Magician and the Peasants, The King and the Bright Young Men, The [ vi ] Miracle, The Panther and the Woodcutter, Man and His Natural Enemy, The Untouchable, Aesop's Last Fable, The Fat Woman and the Terrier, The Prophets and the Mountains), University Review (The Democratic Bretts), The Old Line (The Escaped Elephant), New York Sun (The Gull and the Earthquake), New York Post (The Pig and the Dirty Doves, The Wild 'Horses, The Crow and the Parrot). W. T. G. rvii ] ...