This fountain is dedicated to Aesop fables. A funny pugdog drives four ducks running away from it.

这个喷泉是献给伊索寓言的。一只巴哥犬驱赶着鸭子离开。

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He's a standard literary device that you see in fables of this period, and later--the kind that you find for example in the fables of Aesop.

它只是当时在传说中，不可缺少的角色，你可以在随后的伊索寓言中，找到类似的例子。

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Kind reviewers have said that they are a bit like Aesop's fables.

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