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This is a cute and clever set of figures for presenting seven of Aesop's fables. The booklet and package texts are all in Greek. Not for purchase in the USA. The animals' heads can be raised and lowered. Human heads can be turned, and arms move up and down. I had thought that the grown man figure was Aesop; he may be, but he is also the human adult in SS and MSA.

Abstract Now this takes a prize! An Aesop locomotive! I gather that this toy comes from the era during which the Japanese were prone to put any symbol on any object and (re)produce it. "D-57" appears beneath the engineer's windows and on the boiler-cover at the front. There a bunny holds flags, perhaps for the tortoise and hare whose heads are pictured above the name "Aesop" on the flag panels on either side of the boiler-cover. Further back on the left side a crow in a cap holds a mouse either by a...