HOW THE LARK GOT HER CREST
The lark (according to an ancient legend) was created before the earth itself, and when her father died by a fell disease, as there was no earth, she could find no place of burial for him.
She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, being in perplexity, she buried him in her own head.
Hence she obtained her crest, which is popularly said to be her father's grave-hillock.
Youth's first duty is reverence to parents.
Story Title: The Lark Burying Her Father
Book Title: The Fables of Aesop
Illustrator/Author: Edward Julius Detmold
Published: 1908
Rights: CC0 Public Domain
Online Source: Aesop's Books
Process: Light editing for punctuation and paragraphing.
Additional Notes: Detmold did illustrations for the book, but the text of this fable comes from the translation of George Fyler Townsend.
