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Aesop's Fables Episode 5 · Aesop's Fables

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  The wolf and the lion. A wolf, having stolen a lamb from a
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  fold, was carrying him off to his lair. A lion met him in
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  the path, and, seizing the lamb, took it from him. The
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  wolf, standing at a safe distance, exclaimed, you have unrighteously taken from
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  me that which was mine. The lion juryingly replied, it was righteously yours.
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  A Was it the gift of a friend, or did you get it
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  by purchase? If you did not get it in one way or the other,
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  how then did you come by it? One thief is no better than
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  another. The king's son and the painted lion. A king who had only
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  one son, fond of martial exercises, had a dream in which he was
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  warned that his son would be killed by a lion. Afraid lest the dream
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  should prove true, he built for his son a pleasant palace and darned its
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  walls for his amusement with all kinds of animals of the size of life,
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  along which was the picture of a lion. When the young prince saw this,
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  his grief at being thus confined burst out afresh, and standing near the
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  lion, he thus spoke, oh, you most detestable of animals, through
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  a lying dream of my father's which he saw in his sleep. I am
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  shut up on your account in this palace, as if I had been a
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  girl. What shall I now do to you? With these words? He
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  stretched out his hands toward a thorn tree, meaning to cut a stick from
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  its branches that he might beat the lion, when one of its sharp prickles
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  pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young prince
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  fell down in a fainting fit. A violent fever suddenly set in, from
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  which he died not many days later. We had better bear our troubles bravely
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  than try to escape them. The trees and the axe. A man came
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  into a forest and made a petition to the trees to provide him a handle
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  for his axe. The trees consented to his request and gave him a young
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  ash tree. No sooner had the man fitted from it a new handle to
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  his axe, than he began to use it, and quickly felled with his
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  strokes the noblest giants of the forest. An old oak, lamenting when too
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  late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, the first
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  step has lost us all. If we had not given up the rights of
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  the ash we might yet have retained our own privileges, and have stood for
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  ages. In yielding the rights of others, we may endanger our own.
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  The seaside travelers. Some travelers journeying along the seashore climbed to the summit of
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  a tall cliff, and from thence, looking over the sea, saw in
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  the distance what they thought was a large ship, and waited in the hope
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  of seeing it enter the harbor. But as the object on which they looked
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  was driven by the wind nearer to the shore, they found that it could
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  be at most a small boat, and not a ship. When, however,
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  it reached the beach, they discovered that it was only a large fagot
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  of sticks, and one of them said to his companions, we have waited
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  for no purpose, for after all there was nothing to see but a faggot.
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  Our mere anticipations of life outrun its realities. The seagull and the kite.
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  A seagull, who was bore at home swimming on the sea than walking
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  on the land, was in the habit of catching live fish for its food.
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  One day, having bolted down too large a fish, It burst its
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  a deep gallic bag and lay down on the shore to die. A kite,
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  seeing him, and thinking him a land bird like itself, exclaimed,
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  you richly deserve your fate. For a bird of the air has no business
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  to seek its food from the sea. Every man should be content to mind
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  his own business. The monkey and the camel, the beasts of the forest
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  gave a splendid entertainment, at which the monkey stood up and danced. Having
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  vastly delighted the assembly, he sat down amidst a universal applause. The camel,
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  envious of the praises bestowed upon the monkey, and desirous to divert to
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  himself the favor of the guests, proposed to stand up his turn and dance
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  for their amusement. He moved about in so very ridiculous a manner that the
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  beasts, in a fit of indignation, set upon him with clubs and drove
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  him out of the assembly. It is absurd to ape our betters. The
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  rat and the elephant. A rat traveling on the highway met a huge elephant
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  bearing his royal master and his suite, and also his favorite cat and dog
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  and parrot and monkey. The great beast and his attendants were followed by an
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  admiring crowd, taking up all of the road. What fools you are,
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  said the rat to the people, to make such a hubbub over an elephant.
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  Is it his great bulk that you so much admire? It can only
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  frighten little boys and girls, And I can do that as well. I
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  am a beast as well as he, and have as many legs and ears
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  and eyes. He has no right to take up all the highway, which
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  belongs as much to me as to him. At this moment, the cat
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  spied the rat, and, jumping to the ground, soon convinced him that
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  he was not an elephant. Because we are like the great in one respect,
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  we must not think we are like them at all. The fisherman piping,
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  a fisherman skilled in music, took his flute and his nets to the
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  seashore. Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope
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  that the fish, attracted by his melody would have their own accord, danced
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  into his net, which he had placed below. At last, having long
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  waited in vain, he laid aside his flute and casting his net into the
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  sea, made an excellent hall. The Wolf and the house dog. A
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  wolf meeting with a big, well fed mastiff having a wooden collar about his
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  neck, he inquired of him who it was that fed him so well and
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  yet compelled him to drag that heavy log about wherever he went. The master,
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  he replied, then said the wolf. May no friend of mine ever
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  be in such a plight, for the weight of this chain is enough to
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  spoil the appetite. Nothing can compensate us for the loss of our liberty.
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  The eagle and the kite. An eagle, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon
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  the branches of a tree in company with the kite. Why, said the
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  kite, do I see you with such a rueful look? I seek,
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  she replied, for a mate suitable for me, and am not able to
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  find one. Take me, returned the kite, I am much stronger than
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  you are. Why are you able to secure the means of living by your
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  plunder? Well? I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my
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  talons. The eagle, persuaded by these words, accepted him as her mate.
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  Shortly after the nuptials, the eagle said, fly off and bring me
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  back the ostrich you promised me. The kite, soaring aloft into the air,
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  brought back the shabbiest possible mouse. Is this, said the eagle,
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  the faithful fulfillment of your promise to me? The kit replied that I might
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  attain to your royal hand, and there is nothing that I would not have
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  promised. However much I knew that I must fail in the performance. Promises
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  of a suitor must be taken with caution. The dogs and the hides.
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  Some dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cowhides steeping in the river.
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  Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink the river, but
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  it fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides.
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  Attempt not impossibilities. The fisherman and the little fish. A fisherman who
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  lived on the produce of his nets, one day caught a single small fish
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  as the results of his day's labor. The fish, panting convulsively, thus
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  entreated for his life. Oh sir, what good can I be to you?
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  And how little am I worth? I am not yet come to my
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  full size. Pray spare my life and put me back into the sea.
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  I shall soon become a large fish fit for the tables of the rich,
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  and then you can catch me again and make a handsome profit of me.
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  The fisherman replied, I should be a very simple fellow if I were to
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  forego by certain gain for an uncertain profit. The ass and his purchaser.
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  A man wished to purchase an ass, and agreed with its owner that he
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  should try him before he bought him. He took the ass home and put
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  him in the straw yard with his other asses, upon which he left all
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  the others, and joined himself at once to the most idle and the greediest
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  eater of them all. The man put a halter on him and led him
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  back to his owner, saying, I do not need a trial. I
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  know that he will be just such another as the one whom he chose for
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  his companion. A man is known by the company he keeps, the shepherd
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  and the sheep. A shepherd, driving his sheep to a wood, saw
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  an oak of unusual size full of acorns, and spreading his cloak under the
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  branches, He climbed up into the tree and shook down the acorns. The
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  sheep, eating the acorns, frayed and tore the cloak. The shepherd,
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  coming down and seeing what they had done, said, oh, you most
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  ungrateful creatures. You provide wool to make garments for all other men, but
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  you destroy the clothes of him who feed you. The basest in gratitude is
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  that which injures those who service. The fox and the crow. A crow,
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  having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it
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  in her beak. A fox, seeing her, longed to possess himself of
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  the meat, and by a wily stratagem, succeeded. How handsome is the
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  crow, he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape, and in the
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  fairness of her complexion. Oh, if her voice were only equal to her
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  beauty, she would deservedly be considered the queen of birds. This, he
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  said, deceitfully, having greater admiration for the meat than for the crow.
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  But the crow, all her vanity, aroused by the cunning flattery, and
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  anxious to refute the reflection cast upon her voice, set up a loud caw
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  and dropped the meat. The fox quickly picked it up, and thus addressed
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  the crow, My good crow, your voice is right enough, but your
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  wit is wanting. He who listens to flattery is not wise, for it
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  has no good purpose. The swallow and the crow. The swallow and the
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  crow had a contention about their plumage. The crow put an end to the
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  dispute by saying, your feathers are all very well in the spring, but
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  mine protect me against the winter. Fine weather, friends are not worth much.
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  The hen and the golden eggs. A cottager and his wife had a
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  hen which laid every day a golden egg. They supposed that it must contain
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  a great lump of gold in its inside, and killed it in order that
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  they might get it. When, to their surprise they found that the hen
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  differed in no respect from their other hens. The foolish pair, thus,
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  hoping to become rich, all at once deprived themselves of the gain of which
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  they were day by day assured. The old man and Death. An old
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  man was employed in cutting wood in the forest and in carrying the fagots into
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  the city for sale. One day, being very wearied with his long journey,
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  he sat down by the wayside, and, throwing down his load,
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  besought death to come. Death immediately appeared in answer to his summons, and
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  asked for what reason he had called the old man replied that, lifting up
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  the load, you may place it again upon my shoulders. We do not
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  always like to be taken at our word. The fox and the leopard,
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  the fox and the leopard disputed which was the more beautiful of the two.
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  The leopard exhibited one by one the various spots which decorated his skin. The
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  fox, interrupting him, said, and how much more beautiful than you am,
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  I, who am decorated not in body but in mind. People are
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  not to be charged by their coats. The mountain in labor a mountain was
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  once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, and crowds of people
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  came from all parts to see what was the matter. While they were assembled
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  in anxious expectation of some terrible calamit out came a mouse. Don't make much
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  ado about nothing. In the section four