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Aesop's Fables, Volume 10 (Fables 226-250) - Aesop · Herman Melville Classics Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Man recorded by Maria Cilano. A man once caught a
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  Speaker 1: weasel which was always sneaking about the house, and was
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  Speaker 1: just going to drown it in a tub of water,
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  Speaker 1: when it begged hard for its life, and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: surely you haven't the heart to put me to death.
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  Speaker 1: Think how useful I have been in clearing your house
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  Speaker 1: of the mice and lizards which used to invest it,
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  Speaker 1: and show your gratitude by sparing my life. You have
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  Speaker 1: not been altogether useless, I grant you, said the man.
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  Speaker 1: But who killed the fowls who stole the meat? No, no,
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  Speaker 1: you do much more harm than good, and die you shall.
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  Speaker 1: End of the Weasel and the Man.
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  Speaker 2: web at Nikoldoulan dot com March two thousand six. ESOPs
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  Speaker 2: Fables The plowman, the ass and the ox. A plowman
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  Speaker 2: yoked his ox and his ass together and set to
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  Speaker 2: work to plow his field. It was a poor makeshift
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  Speaker 2: of a team, but it was the best he could do,
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  Speaker 2: as he had but a single ox. At the end
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  Speaker 2: of the day, when the beasts were loosed from the yoke,
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  Speaker 2: the ass said to the ox, well, we've had a
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  Speaker 2: hard day. Which of us is to carry the master home?
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  Speaker 2: The ox look surprised at the question, why, said he
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  Speaker 2: you to be sure as usual. End of the Plowman,
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  Speaker 2: the Ass and the Ox. Recorded by Nikoldolan on the
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  Speaker 2: The orator was once speaking in the assembly at Athens,
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  Speaker 2: but the people were very inattentive to what he was saying,
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  Speaker 2: so he stopped and said, gentlemen, I should like to
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  Speaker 2: tell you one of Esop's fables. This made everyone listen intently.
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  Speaker 2: Then Demodes began. Demeter, a swallow and an eel were
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  Speaker 2: once traveling together and came to a river without a bridge.
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  Speaker 2: The swallow flew over it, and the eel swam across,
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  Speaker 2: and then he stopped. What happened to Demeter cried several
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  Speaker 2: people in the audience. Demeter, he replied, is very angry
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  Speaker 2: with you for listening to fables when you ought to
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  Speaker 2: be minding public business. End of Demodes and his fable.
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  Speaker 3: recording is by Aaron Hockwemer in Auckland, New Zealand Aesop's
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  Speaker 3: fables The Monkey and the Dolphin. When people go on
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  Speaker 3: a voyage, they often take with them lap dogs or
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  Speaker 3: monkeys as pets to while away the time. Thus it
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  Speaker 3: fell out that a man returning to Athens from the
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  Speaker 3: east had a pet monkey on board with him. As
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  Speaker 3: they neared the coast of Attica, a great storm burst
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  Speaker 3: upon them and the ship capsized. All on board were
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  Speaker 3: thrown into the water and tried to save themselves by swimming.
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  Speaker 3: The monkey among the rest. A dolphin saw him, and,
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  Speaker 3: supposing him to be a man, took him on his
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  Speaker 3: back and began swimming towards the shore. When they got
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  Speaker 3: near the Piraeus, which is the port of Athens, the
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  Speaker 3: dolphin asked the monkey if he was an Athenian. The
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  Speaker 3: monkey replied that he was, and added that he came
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  Speaker 3: off a very distinguished family. Then, of course, you know
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  Speaker 3: the Pirieus, continued the dolphin. The monkey thought he was
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  Speaker 3: referring to some high official or other, and replied, oh, yes,
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  Speaker 3: he's a very old friend of mine. At that, detecting
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  Speaker 3: his hypocrisy. The dolphin was so disgusted that he dived
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  Speaker 3: below the surface, and the unfortunate monkey was quickly drowned.
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  Speaker 3: End of the Monkey and the Dolphin from Aesop's Fables.
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  Speaker 4: Lemoine Keene, New Hampshire. Esop's fables The Crow and the Snake.
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  Speaker 4: A hungry crow spied a snake lying asleep in a
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  Speaker 4: sunny spot and picking it up in his class. He
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  Speaker 4: was carrying it off to a place where he could
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  Speaker 4: make a meal of it without being disturbed, when the
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  Speaker 4: snake reared its head and bit him. It was a
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  Speaker 4: poisonous snake, and the bite was fatal. And the dying
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  Speaker 4: crow sat, What a cruel fate is mine? I thought
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  Speaker 4: I had made a lucky find, and it has cost
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  Speaker 4: me my life. End of the Crow and the Snake.
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  Speaker 2: Aesop's fables The Dogs and the Fox. Some dogs once
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  Speaker 2: found a lion's skin and were worrying it with their teeth.
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  Speaker 2: Just then a fox came by and said, you think
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  Speaker 2: yourselves very brave, no doubt, But if that were a
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  Speaker 2: live lion, you'd find his claws a good deal shop
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  Speaker 2: than your teeth. And of the dogs and the fox.
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  Speaker 1: fables The Nightingale and the Hawk, recited by Maria Cilano.
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  Speaker 1: A nightingale was sitting on a bough of an oak
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  Speaker 1: and singing as her custom was. A hungry hawk presently
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  Speaker 1: spied her, and, darting to the spot, seized her in
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  Speaker 1: his talons. He was just about to tear her in
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  Speaker 1: pieces when she begged him to spare her life. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not big enough, she pleaded, to make you a good meal.
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  Speaker 1: You ought to seek your prey among the bigger birdsards.
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  Speaker 1: The hawk eyed her with some contempt. You must think
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  Speaker 1: me very simple, said he, if you suppose I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give up a certain prize on the chance of
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  Speaker 1: a better of which I see at present no sign.
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  Speaker 1: the Amoranth recited by Maria Cilano. A rose and an
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  Speaker 1: amoranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the
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  Speaker 1: Amoranth said to her neighbor, how I envy you your
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  Speaker 1: beauty and your sweet scent. No wonder you are such
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  Speaker 1: a universal favorite. But the rose replied, with a shade
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  Speaker 1: of sadness in her voice. Ah, my dear friend, I bloom,
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  Speaker 1: but for a time. My petals soon wither and fall,
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  Speaker 1: and then I die. But your flowers never fade, even
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  Speaker 1: if they are cut, for they are everlasting. End of
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  Speaker 1: the Rose and the Amirinths.
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  Speaker 2: by Nikoldulan on the web at Nikoldoulan dot com. Esop's
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  Speaker 2: fables The Man, the Horse, the Ox, and the Dog.
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  Speaker 2: One winter's day, during a severe storm, a horse, an ox,
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  Speaker 2: and a dog came and begged for shelter in the
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  Speaker 2: house of a man. He readily admitted them, and as
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  Speaker 2: they were cold and wet, he lit a fire for
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  Speaker 2: their comfort, and he put outs before the horse and
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  Speaker 2: hay before the ox, while he fed the dog with
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  Speaker 2: the remains of his own dinner. When the storm abated,
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  Speaker 2: and they were about to depart. They determined to show
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  Speaker 2: their gratitude in the following way. They divided the life
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  Speaker 2: of man among them, and each endowed one part of
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  Speaker 2: it with equalities which were peculiarly his own. The horse
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  Speaker 2: took youth, and hence young men are high, mettled and
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  Speaker 2: impatient of restraint. The ox took middle age, and accordingly,
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  Speaker 2: men in middle life are steady and hard working, while
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  Speaker 2: the dog took old age, which is the reason why
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  Speaker 2: old men are so often peevish and ill tempered, and
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  Speaker 2: like dogs, attached chiefly to those who look to their comfort,
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  Speaker 2: while they are disposed to snap at those who are
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  Speaker 2: unfamiliar or distasteful to them. And of the man, the horse,
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  Speaker 2: the ox, and the dog.
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  Speaker 1: fables The Wolves, the Sheep, and the Ram recited by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Cilano. The wolves sent a deputation to the sheep
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  Speaker 1: with proposals for a lasting peace between them, on condition
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  Speaker 1: of their giving up the sheep dogs to instant death.
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  Speaker 1: The foolish sheep agreed to the terms, but an old ram,
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  Speaker 1: whose years had brought him wisdom, interfered and said, how
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  Speaker 1: can we expect to live at peace with you? Why,
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  Speaker 1: even with the dogs at hand to protect us, we
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  Speaker 1: are never secure from your murderous attacks. End of the wolves,
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  Speaker 1: the sheep, and the Ram.
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  Speaker 5: Fables The Swan. The swan is said to sing but
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  Speaker 5: once in its life, when it knows that it is
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  Speaker 5: about to die. A certain man, who had heard of
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  Speaker 5: the song of the swan, one day saw one of
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  Speaker 5: these birds for sale in the market and bought it
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  Speaker 5: and took it home with him. A few days later,
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  Speaker 5: he had some friends to dinner and produced the swan
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  Speaker 5: and bade it sing for their entertainment. But the swan
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  Speaker 5: remained silent. In course of time, when it was growing old,
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  Speaker 5: it became aware of its approaching end and broke into
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  Speaker 5: a sweet, sad song. When its owner heard it, he said, angrily,
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  Speaker 5: if the creature only sings when it is about to die.
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  Speaker 5: What a fool I was that day I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: hear it song. I ought to have wrung its neck
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  Speaker 5: instead of merely inviting it to sing. And of the swan.
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  Speaker 6: A snake suffered a good deal from being constantly trodden
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  Speaker 6: upon by men and beast, owing partly to the length
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  Speaker 6: of his body and partly to his being unable to
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  Speaker 6: raise himself above the surface of the ground. So he
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  Speaker 6: went and complained to Jupiter about the risks to which
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  Speaker 6: he was exposed. But Jupiter had little sympathy for him.
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  Speaker 6: I dare say, said he that if you had bitten
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  Speaker 6: the first that trod on you, the others would have
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  Speaker 6: taken more trouble to look where they put their feet.
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  Speaker 6: End of the Snake in Jupiter, recorded by one Carlos Bagnell.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you for listening.
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  Speaker 5: The Wolf and his Shadow. A wolf who was roaming
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  Speaker 5: about on the plane when the sun was getting low
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  Speaker 5: in the sky, was much breast by the size of
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  Speaker 5: his shadow, and said to himself, I had no idea
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  Speaker 5: I was so big fancy my being afraid of a lion?
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  Speaker 5: Why I not? He ought to be king of the beasts,
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  Speaker 5: and heedless of danger. He strutted about as if there
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  Speaker 5: could be no doubt at all about it. Just then
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  Speaker 5: a lion sprang upon him and began to devour him
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  Speaker 5: alas he cried, had I not lost sight of the facts,
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  Speaker 5: I shouldn't have been ruined by my fancies and of
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  Speaker 5: by jem O Blythe ESOPs Fables, The Plowman and the Wolf.
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  Speaker 5: A plowman loosed his oxen from the plow and led
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  Speaker 5: them away to the water to drink. While he was absent,
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  Speaker 5: a half starved wolf appeared on the scene and went
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  Speaker 5: up to the plow and began chewing the leather straps
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  Speaker 5: attached to the yoke. As he gnawed away desperately in
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  Speaker 5: the hope of satisfying his craving for food, he somehow
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  Speaker 5: got entangled in the harness, and, taking fright, struggled to
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  Speaker 5: get free, tugging at the traces as if he would
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  Speaker 5: drag the plow along with him. Just then the plowman
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  Speaker 5: came back, and, seeing what was happening, he cried, Ah,
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  Speaker 5: you old rascal, I wish you would give up thieving
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  Speaker 5: for good and take to honest work instead. End of
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  Speaker 5: the plowman and the Wolf.
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  Speaker 1: Mercury and the Man Bitten by an ant recited by
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  Speaker 1: Maria Cilano. A man once saw a ship go down
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  Speaker 1: with all its crew, and commented severely on the injustice
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  Speaker 1: of the gods. They care nothing for a man's character,
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  Speaker 1: said he, but let the good and the bad go
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  Speaker 1: to their deaths together. There was an ant heap close
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  Speaker 1: by where he was standing, and just as he spoke,
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  Speaker 1: he was bitten in the foot by an ant. Turning
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  Speaker 1: in a temper to the ant heap, he stamped upon
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  Speaker 1: it and crushed hundreds of unoffending ants. Suddenly Mercury appeared
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  Speaker 1: and belabored him with his staff, saying, as he did so,
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  Speaker 1: you villain, where's your nice sense of justice now? End
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  Speaker 1: of Mercury and the Man bitten by an ant.
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  Speaker 2: by Nikol Dulan on the webbed Nikoldoulan dot com Esop's Fables,
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  Speaker 2: The Wily Lion a lion watched a fat ball feeding
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  Speaker 2: in a meadow, and his mouth watered when he thought
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  Speaker 2: of the royal feast he would make. But he did
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  Speaker 2: not dare to attack him, for he was afraid of
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  Speaker 2: his sharp horns. Hunger, however, presently compelled him to do something,
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  Speaker 2: and as the use of force did not promise success,
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  Speaker 2: he determined to resort to artifice. Going up to the
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  Speaker 2: ball in friendly fashion, he said to him, I cannot
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  Speaker 2: help saying how much I admire your magnificent figure, what
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  Speaker 2: a fine head, what powerful shoulders and thighs. But my
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  Speaker 2: dear friend, what in the world makes you wear those
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  Speaker 2: ugly horns? You must find them as awkward as they
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  Speaker 2: are insightly. Believe me, you would do much better without them.
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  Speaker 2: The bull was foolish enough to be persuaded by this
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  Speaker 2: flattery to have his horns cut off, and, having now
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  Speaker 2: lost his only means of defense, fell an easy prey
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  Speaker 2: to the lion. And of the wily lion. This is
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  Speaker 2: Dulan on the webbed ni Cooledoulan dot com. Aesop's fables,
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  Speaker 2: The Parrot and the Cat. A man once bought a
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  Speaker 2: parrot and gave it the run of his house. It
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  Speaker 2: reveled in its liberty, and presently flew up on to
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  Speaker 2: the mantelpiece and screamed away to its heart's content. The
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  Speaker 2: noise disturbed the cat, who was asleep on the hearthrug,
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  Speaker 2: looking up at the intruder, She said, who may you
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  Speaker 2: be and where have you come from? The parrot replied,
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  Speaker 2: your master has just bought me and brought me home
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  Speaker 2: with him. You impudent bird, said the cat. How dare you.
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  Speaker 7: A new comer make a noise like that?
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  Speaker 8: Why?
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  Speaker 7: I was born here and have lived here all my life,
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  Speaker 7: and yet if I venture to mew, they throw things
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  Speaker 7: at me and chase me all over the place. Look here, mistress,
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  Speaker 7: said the parrot. You just hold your tongue. My voice
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  Speaker 7: they delight in. But yours, yours is a perfect nuisance.
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  Speaker 7: And of the parrot and the cat.
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  Speaker 4: Moyne Keene, New Hampshire. Esop's fables The Stag and the Lion.
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  Speaker 4: A stag was chased by the hounds and took refuge
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  Speaker 4: in a cave where he hoped to be safe from
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  Speaker 4: his pursuers. Unfortunately, the cave contained a lion, to whom
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  Speaker 4: he fell an easy prey. Unhappy that I am, he cried,
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  Speaker 4: I am saved from the power of the dog, only
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  Speaker 4: to fall into the clutches of a lion, out of
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  Speaker 4: the frying pan into the fire. End of recording.
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  Speaker 3: Fables the Impostor, a certain man fell ill, and being
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  Speaker 3: in a very bad way, he made a vow that
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  Speaker 3: he would sacrifice a hundred oxen to the gods if
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  Speaker 3: they would grant him a return to health. Wishing to
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  Speaker 3: see how he would keep his vow, they caused him
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  Speaker 3: to recover in a short time. Now he hadn't an
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  Speaker 3: ox in the world, so he made a hundred little
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  Speaker 3: oxen out of tellow and offered them up on an
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  Speaker 3: altar at the same time, saying, ye, Gods, I call
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  Speaker 3: you to witness that I have discharged my vow. The
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  Speaker 3: gods determined to be even with them, so they sent
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  Speaker 3: him a dream in which he was bidden to go
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  Speaker 3: to the seashore and fetch a hundred crowns, which he
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  Speaker 3: was to find there hastening in great excitement to the shore.
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  Speaker 3: He fell in with a band of robbers, who seized
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  Speaker 3: him and carried him off to sell us a slave.
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  Speaker 3: And when they sold him a hundred crowns was the
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  Speaker 3: summi fetched. Do not promise more than you can perform.
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  Speaker 3: End of the impostor from Aesop's Fables.
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  Speaker 9: Classics dot com Esop's fables The Dog and the Hides.
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  Speaker 9: Once upon a time, a number of dogs who were
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  Speaker 9: famished with hunger saw some hides steeping in a river,
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  Speaker 9: but couldn't get at them because the water was too deep.
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  Speaker 9: So they put their heads together and decided to drink
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  Speaker 9: away at the river till it was shallow enough for
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  Speaker 9: them to reach the hides. But long before that happened,
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  Speaker 9: they burst themselves with drinking. End of the Dogs and
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  Speaker 9: the Hides.
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  Speaker 2: by Nikoldulan on the web at Nikoldoulan dot com. Esop's fables,
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  Speaker 2: The Lion, the Fox, and the Ass. Lion, a fox,
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  Speaker 2: and an ass went out hunting together. They had soon
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  Speaker 2: taken a large booty, which the lion requested the ass
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  Speaker 2: to divide between them. The ass divided it all into
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  Speaker 2: three equal parts, and modestly begged the others to take
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  Speaker 2: their choice, at which the lion, bursting with fury, sprang
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  Speaker 2: upon the ass and tore him to pieces. Then, glaring
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  Speaker 2: at the fox, he bade him make a fresh division.
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  Speaker 2: The fox gathered almost the hole in one great heap
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  Speaker 2: for the lion's share, leaving only the smallest possible morsel
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  Speaker 2: for himself. My dear friend, said the lion, How did
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  Speaker 2: you get the neck of it so well? The fox
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  Speaker 2: replied me, oh, I took a lesson from the ass.
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  Speaker 2: Happy is he who learns from the misfortunes of others
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  Speaker 2: and of the lion, the Fox and the ass. This
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  Speaker 2: Nicole Dulan on the webbed Niicoldoulan dot com Esop's fables
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  Speaker 2: The Fowler, the Partridge and the Cock. One day, as
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  Speaker 2: a fowler was sitting down to a scanty supper of
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  Speaker 2: herbs and bread, a friend dropped in unexpectedly. The lauder
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  Speaker 2: was empty, so he went out and caught a tame partridge,
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  Speaker 2: which he kept as a decoy, and was about to
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  Speaker 2: wring her neck when she cried, surely you won't kill me.
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  Speaker 2: Why what will you do without me next time you
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  Speaker 2: go fowling? How will you get the birds to come
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  Speaker 2: to your nets? He let her go at this and
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  Speaker 2: went to his hen house, where he had a plump
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  Speaker 2: young cock. When the cock saw what he was after,
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  Speaker 2: he too, pleaded for his life and said, if you
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  Speaker 2: kill me, how will you know the time of night?
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  Speaker 2: And who will wake you up in the morning when
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  Speaker 2: it is time to get to work. The fowler, however, replied,
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  Speaker 2: you are useful for telling the time I know, but
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  Speaker 2: for all that I can't send my friend Zupperlas to bed,
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  Speaker 2: and therewith he caught him and wrung his neck. End
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  Speaker 2: of the fowler. The partard and the cock.
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  Speaker 8: Aceop's fables The Gnat and the Lion. A gnat once
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  Speaker 8: went up to a lion and said, I'm not in
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  Speaker 8: the least afraid of you. I don't even allow that
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  Speaker 8: you are much for means strength. What is your strengthenman
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  Speaker 8: to after all that you can scratch with your claws
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  Speaker 8: and bite with your teeth, just like a woman in
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  Speaker 8: a temper, and nothing more. But I'm stronger than you.
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  Speaker 8: If you don't believe it, let us fight and see so, saying,
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  Speaker 8: the net sounded his horn and darted in and beat
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  Speaker 8: the lion on the nose. When the lion felt the sting,
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  Speaker 8: in his haste to crush him, he scrashed his nose
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  Speaker 8: badly and made it bleed, but failed altogether to hear
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  Speaker 8: the gnat, which was off in triumph, elated by its victory. Presently, however,
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  Speaker 8: it got entangled in a spider's web and was caught
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  Speaker 8: and eaten by the spider, thus falling of prey to
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  Speaker 8: an insignificant insect, after having triumphed over the King of
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  Speaker 8: the beasts and of the gnat and the lion.
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  Speaker 2: by Nicole Dulan on the Webed Nicoledoulan dot com Esop's
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  Speaker 2: fables The Farmer and his Dogs. A farmer was snowed
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  Speaker 2: up in his farmstead by a severe storm and was
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  Speaker 2: unable to go out and procure provisions for himself and
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  Speaker 2: his family. So he first killed his sheep and used
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  Speaker 2: them for food. Then, as the storm still continued, he
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  Speaker 2: killed his goats, and last of all, as the weather
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  Speaker 2: showed no signs of improving, he was compelled to kill
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  Speaker 2: his oxen and eat them. When his dog saw the
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  Speaker 2: various animals being killed and eaten in turn, they said
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  Speaker 2: to one another, we had better get out of this,
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  Speaker 2: or we shall be the next to go. And of
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  Speaker 2: by Nikol Doolan on the web at Nikoldolan dot com
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  Speaker 2: March two thousand six ESOPs fables the Eagle and the Fox.
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  Speaker 2: An eagle and a fox became great friends and determined
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  Speaker 2: to live near one another. They thought that the more
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  Speaker 2: they saw of each other, the better friends they would be.
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  Speaker 2: So the eagle built a nest at the top of
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  Speaker 2: a high tree, while the fox settled in a thicket
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  Speaker 2: at the foot of it and produced a litter of cubs.
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  Speaker 2: One day, the fox went out foraging for food, and
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  Speaker 2: the eagle, who also wanted food for her young, flew
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  Speaker 2: down into the thicket, caught up the foxes cubs, and
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  Speaker 2: carried them up into the tree for a meal for
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  Speaker 2: herself and her family. When the fox came back and
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  Speaker 2: found out what had happened, she was not so much
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  Speaker 2: sorry for the loss of her cubs as furious because
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  Speaker 2: she couldn't get at the eagle and pay her out
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  Speaker 2: for her treachery. So she sat down not far off
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  Speaker 2: and cursed her. But it wasn't long before she had
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  Speaker 2: her revenge. Some villagers happened to be sacrificing a goat
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  Speaker 2: on a neighboring altar, and the eagle flew down and
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  Speaker 2: carried off a piece of burning flesh to her nest.
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  Speaker 2: There was a strong wind blowing, and the nest caught fire,
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  Speaker 2: with the result that her fledglings fell half roasted to
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  Speaker 2: the ground. Then the fox ran to the spot and
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  Speaker 2: devoured them in full sight of the eagle. False faith
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  Speaker 2: may escape human punishment, but cannot escape the divine and
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  Speaker 2: of the eagle and the fox. Recorded by Ni col
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