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Aesop's Fables, Volume 11 (Fables 251-275) - Aesop · Literary Legends - Best Classic Fiction

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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org Esop's Fables. The Butcher and his Customers.
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  Speaker 1: Two men were buying meat at a butcher's stall in
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  Speaker 1: the market place, and while the butcher's back was turned
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  Speaker 1: for a moment, one of them snatched up a joint
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  Speaker 1: and hastily thrust it under the other's cloak, where it
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  Speaker 1: could not be seen. When the butcher turned round, he
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  Speaker 1: missed the meet at once and charged them with having
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  Speaker 1: stolen it. But the one who'd taken it said he
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  Speaker 1: hadn't got it, and the one who had got it
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  Speaker 1: said he hadn't taken it. The butcher I felt sure
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  Speaker 1: they were deceiving him, but he only said, you may
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  Speaker 1: cheat me with your lying, but you can't cheat the gods,
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  Speaker 1: and they won't let you off so lightly prevarication often
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  Speaker 1: amounts to perjury. The end of the Butcher and his Customers.
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org Esop's Fables. Hercules and Minerva. Hercules
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  Speaker 1: was once traveling along a narrow road when he saw
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  Speaker 1: lying on the ground in front of him, what appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be an apple, And as he passed, he said
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  Speaker 1: stamped upon it with his heel. To his astonishment, instead
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  Speaker 1: of being crushed, it doubled in size, and on his
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  Speaker 1: attacking it again and smiting it with his club, it
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  Speaker 1: swelled up to an enormous size and blocked up the
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  Speaker 1: whole road. Upon this he dropped his club and stood
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  Speaker 1: looking at it in amazement. Just then Minerva appeared and
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  Speaker 1: said to him, leave it alone, my friend, That which
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  Speaker 1: you see before you is the apple of discord. If
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  Speaker 1: you do not meddle with it, it remains small as
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  Speaker 1: it was at first, But if you resort to violence,
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  Speaker 1: it swells into the thing you see. End of Hercules
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  Speaker 1: and Minerva.
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  Speaker 2: Howard www. Dot Robsals Knoxville dot com. Aesop's Fables by Aesop.
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  Speaker 2: The Fox who served a Lion, a lion had a
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  Speaker 2: fox to attend on him, and whenever they went hunting,
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  Speaker 2: the fox found the prey, and the line fell upon
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  Speaker 2: it and killed it, And then they divided it between
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  Speaker 2: them in certain proportions, but the lion always got a
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  Speaker 2: very large share, and the fox a very small one,
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  Speaker 2: which didn't please the latter at all. So he determined
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  Speaker 2: to set up his own account. He began by trying
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  Speaker 2: to steal a lamb from a flock of sheep, but
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  Speaker 2: the shepherd saw him and set his dogs on him.
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  Speaker 2: The hunter was now the hunted, and was very soon
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  Speaker 2: caught and dispatched by the dogs. Better servitude with safety
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  Speaker 2: than freedom with danger. End of reading. This is a
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  Speaker 2: dot Com. Aesop's Fables The Quack Doctor by Aesop. A
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  Speaker 2: certain man fell sick and took to his bed. He
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  Speaker 2: consulted a number of doctors from time to time, and they, all,
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  Speaker 2: with one exception, told him that his life was in
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  Speaker 2: no immediate danger, but that his illness would probably last
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  Speaker 2: a considerable time. The one who took a different view
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  Speaker 2: of his case, who was also the last to be consulted,
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  Speaker 2: bade him to prepare for the worst. You have not
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  Speaker 2: twenty four hours to live, he said, and I fear
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  Speaker 2: I can do nothing. As it turned out, however, he
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  Speaker 2: was quite wrong, for at the end of the first
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  Speaker 2: few days, the sick man quitted his bed and took
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  Speaker 2: a walk abroad, looking it is true as pale as
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  Speaker 2: a ghost. In the course of his walk, he met
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  Speaker 2: the doctor who had prophesied his death. Dear me, said
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  Speaker 2: the latter, How do you do You're fresh from the
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  Speaker 2: other world, no doubt, pray, how are our departed friends
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  Speaker 2: getting on there? Most comfortably, replied the other, for they
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  Speaker 2: have drunk the water of oblivion and have forgotten all
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  Speaker 2: the troubles of life. By the way, just before I left,
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  Speaker 2: the authorities were making arrangements to prosecute all the doctors
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  Speaker 2: because they won't let Sigmund die in the course of nature,
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  Speaker 2: but use their arms to keep them alive. They were
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  Speaker 2: going to charge you along with the rest, till I
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  Speaker 2: assured them that you were no doctor but a mere impostor.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the quack Doctor by Aesop.
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  Speaker 1: The Lion, the Wolf, and the Fox. A lion, infirm
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  Speaker 1: with age, lay sick in his den, and all the
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  Speaker 1: beasts of the forest came to inquire after his health,
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  Speaker 1: with the exception of the fox. The wolf thought this
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  Speaker 1: was a good opportunity for paying off old scores against
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  Speaker 1: the fox, so he called the attention of the lion
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  Speaker 1: to his absence, and said, you see, sire, that we
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  Speaker 1: have all come to see how you are, except the fox,
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  Speaker 1: who hasn't come near you and doesn't care whether you
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  Speaker 1: are well or ill. Just then the fox came in
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  Speaker 1: and heard the last words of the wolf. The lion
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  Speaker 1: roared at him in deep displeasure, but he begged to
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  Speaker 1: be allowed to explain his absence, and said, not one
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  Speaker 1: of them cares for you so much as i, sire.
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  Speaker 1: For all the time I have been going round to
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  Speaker 1: the doctors and trying to find a cure for your illness,
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  Speaker 1: And may I ask if you have found one? Said
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  Speaker 1: the lion, I have, sire, said the fox, and it
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  Speaker 1: is this. You must flay a wolf and wrap yourself
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  Speaker 1: in his skin while it is still warm. The lion
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  Speaker 1: accordingly turned to the wolf and struck him dead with
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  Speaker 1: one blow of his pow, in order to try the
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  Speaker 1: fox's prescription. But the fox laughed and said to himself,
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  Speaker 1: that's what comes from stirring up ill will the end
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  Speaker 1: of the lion, the wolf, and the fox. This is
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  Speaker 1: When Hercules was received among the gods and was entertained
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  Speaker 1: at a banquet by Jupiter, he responded courteously to the
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  Speaker 1: greetings of all, with the exception of Plutus, the god
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  Speaker 1: of wealth. When Plutus approached him, he cast his eyes
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  Speaker 1: upon the ground and turned away and pretended not to
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  Speaker 1: see him. Jupiter was surprised at this conduct on his part,
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  Speaker 1: and asked why, after having been so cordial with all
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  Speaker 1: the other gods, he'd behaved like that To Plutus, Sire
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  Speaker 1: said Hercules. I do not like Plutus, and I will
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  Speaker 1: tell you why. When we were on Earth together, I
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  Speaker 1: always noticed that he was to be found in the
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  Speaker 1: company of scoundrels. The end of Hercules and Plutus. This
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  Speaker 1: Fox and the Leopard. A fox and a leopard were
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  Speaker 1: disputing about their looks, and each claimed to be the
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  Speaker 1: more handsome of the two. The leopard said, look at
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  Speaker 1: my smart coat, you have nothing to match that. But
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  Speaker 1: the fox replied, your coat may be smart, but my
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  Speaker 1: wits are smarter still. The end of the Fox and
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  Speaker 1: Barnes Esop's fables The Fox and the Hedgehog. A fox
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  Speaker 1: in swimming across a rapid river, was swept away by
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  Speaker 1: the current and carried a long way downstream in spite
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  Speaker 1: of his struggles, until at last, bruised and exhausted, he
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  Speaker 1: managed to scramble on to dry ground from a backwater.
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  Speaker 1: As he lay there, unable to move, a swarm of
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  Speaker 1: horse flies settled on him and sucked his blood undisturbed,
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  Speaker 1: for he was too weak even to shake them off.
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  Speaker 1: A hedgehog saw him and asked if he should brush
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  Speaker 1: away the flies that were tormenting him, but the fox replied, oh, please, no,
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  Speaker 1: not on any account, for these flies have sucked their
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  Speaker 1: fill and are taking very little from me now. But
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  Speaker 1: if you drive them off, another swarm of hungry ones
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  Speaker 1: will come and suck all the blood I have left,
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  Speaker 1: and leave me without a drop in my veins. And
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  Speaker 1: fables The Crow and the Raven. A crow became very
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  Speaker 1: jealous of a raven, because the latter was regarded by
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  Speaker 1: men as a bird of omen, which foretold the future,
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  Speaker 1: and was accordingly held in great respect by them. She
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  Speaker 1: was very anxious to get the same sort of reputation herself.
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  Speaker 1: And one day, seeing some travelers approaching, she flew on
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  Speaker 1: to a branch of a tree at the roadside and
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  Speaker 1: cawed as loud as she could. The travelers were in
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  Speaker 1: some dismay at the sound, for they feared it might
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  Speaker 1: be a bad omen, till one of them, spying the crow,
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  Speaker 1: said to his companions, it's all right, my friends. We
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  Speaker 1: can go on without fear, for it's only a crow,
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  Speaker 1: and that means nothing. Those who pretend to be something
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  Speaker 1: they are not only make themselves ridiculous. End of the
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  Speaker 1: Crow and the Raven. This is a LibriVox recording. All
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  Speaker 1: is by David Barnes Esop's fables The Witch a witch
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  Speaker 1: professed to be able to avert the anger of the
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  Speaker 1: gods by means of charms, of which she alone possessed
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  Speaker 1: the secret, And she drove a brisk trade and made
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  Speaker 1: a fat livelihood out of it. But certain persons accused
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  Speaker 1: her of black magic and carried her before the judges
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  Speaker 1: and demanded that she should be put to death for
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  Speaker 1: dealings with the devil. She was found guilty and condemned
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  Speaker 1: to death, and one of the judges said to her,
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  Speaker 1: as she was leaving the dock, you say you can
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  Speaker 1: avert the anger of the gods. How comes it, then,
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  Speaker 1: that you have failed to disarm the enmity of men?
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  Speaker 1: End of the witch.
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  Speaker 3: ESOPs fables, The Old Man and Death. An old man
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  Speaker 3: cut himself a bundle of faggots in a wood and
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  Speaker 3: started to carry them home. He had a long way
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  Speaker 3: to go, and was hired out before he had got
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  Speaker 3: much more than half way. Casting his burden on the ground,
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  Speaker 3: he called upon Death to come and release him from
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  Speaker 3: his life of toil. The words were scarcely out of
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  Speaker 3: his mouth when, much to his dismay, Death stood before
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  Speaker 3: him and professed his readiness to serve him. He was
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  Speaker 3: almost frightened out of his wits, but he had enough
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  Speaker 3: presence of mind to stammer out, good sir, if you'd
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  Speaker 3: be so kind, pray help me up with my burden again,
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  Speaker 3: and of the old man and death.
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  Speaker 1: sold everything he had and melted down his horde of
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  Speaker 1: gold into a single lump, which he buried secretly in
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  Speaker 1: a field. Every day he went to look at it,
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  Speaker 1: and would sometimes spend long hours gloating over his treasure.
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  Speaker 1: One of his men noticed his frequent visits to the spot,
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  Speaker 1: and one day watched him and discovered his secret. Waiting
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  Speaker 1: his opportunity, he went one night and dug up the
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  Speaker 1: gold and stole it. Next day, the miser visited the
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  Speaker 1: place as usual, and, finding his treasure gone, fell to
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  Speaker 1: tearing his hair and groaning over his loss. In this condition,
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  Speaker 1: he was seen by one of his neighbors, who asked
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  Speaker 1: him what his trouble was. The miser told of his misfortune,
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  Speaker 1: but the other replied, don't take it so much to heart,
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  Speaker 1: my friend. Put a brick into the hole and take
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  Speaker 1: a look at it every day. You won't be any
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  Speaker 1: worse off than before, for even when you had your gold,
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  Speaker 1: it was of no earthly use to you. End of
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  Speaker 1: the miser.
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  Speaker 3: The Foxes and the River. A number of foxes assembled
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  Speaker 3: on the bank of a river and wanted to drink,
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  Speaker 3: but the current was so strong and the water looked
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  Speaker 3: so deep and dangerous that they didn't dare to do so,
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  Speaker 3: but stood near the edge, encouraging one another not to
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  Speaker 3: be afraid. At last, one of them, to shame the
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  Speaker 3: rest and show how brave he was, said, I am
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  Speaker 3: not a bit frightened. See, I'll step right into the water.
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  Speaker 3: He had no sooner done so than the current swept
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  Speaker 3: him off his feet. When the others saw him being
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  Speaker 3: carried down stream, they cried, don't go and leave us,
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  Speaker 3: Come back and show us where we too can drink
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  Speaker 3: with safety. But he replied, I'm afraid I can't yet.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go to the sea side. And this
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  Speaker 3: current will take me there nicely. When I come back,
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  Speaker 3: I'll show you with pleasure and of the foxes and
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  Speaker 3: ESOPs fables. The Horse and the Stag. There was once
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  Speaker 3: a horse who used to graze in a meadow. But
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  Speaker 3: one day a stag came into the meadow and said
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  Speaker 3: he had as good a right to feed there as
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  Speaker 3: the horse, and moreover chose all the best places for himself.
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  Speaker 3: The horse, wishing to be revenged upon his unwelcome visitor,
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  Speaker 3: went to a man and asked if he would help
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  Speaker 3: him to turn out the stag. Yes, said the I
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  Speaker 3: will by all means, but I can only do so
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  Speaker 3: if you let me put a bridle in your mouth
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  Speaker 3: and mount on your back. The horse agreed to do this,
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  Speaker 3: and the two together very soon turned the stag out
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  Speaker 3: of the pasture. But when that was done, the horse
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  Speaker 3: found to his dismay that in the man he had
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  Speaker 3: got a master for Good. And of the Horse and
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  Speaker 3: the Stag.
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  Speaker 1: In making his way through a hedge, a fox missed
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  Speaker 1: his footing and caught at a bramble to save himself
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  Speaker 1: from falling. Naturally, he got badly scratched, and in disgust
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  Speaker 1: he cried to the bramble, it was your help I wanted,
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  Speaker 1: and see how you have treated me. I'd sooner have
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  Speaker 1: fallen outright. The bramble, interrupting him, replied, you must have
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  Speaker 1: lost your wits, my friend, to catch at me, who
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  Speaker 1: am myself? Always catching at others? End of the Fox
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  Speaker 1: Fox and the Snake. A snake, in crossing a river,
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  Speaker 1: was carried away by the current, but managed to wriggle
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  Speaker 1: on to a bundle of thorns which was floating by
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  Speaker 1: and was thus carried at a great rate downstream. A
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  Speaker 1: fox caught sight of it from the bank as it
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  Speaker 1: went whirling along, and called out, gad, the passenger fits
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  Speaker 1: the ship. End of the Fox and the snake. This
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  Speaker 1: the Stag. A lion lay sick in his den, unable
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  Speaker 1: to provide himself with food, so he said to his friend,
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  Speaker 1: the fox, who came to ask how he did. My
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  Speaker 1: good friend, I wish you would go to yonder Wood
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  Speaker 1: and beguile the big stag who lives there to come
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  Speaker 1: to my den. I have a fancy to make my
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  Speaker 1: dinner off a stag's heart and brains. The fox went
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  Speaker 1: to the wood and found the stag and said to him,
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  Speaker 1: my dear sir, you're in luck. You know the lion
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  Speaker 1: our king, well, he's at the point of death and
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  Speaker 1: has appointed you his successor to rule over the beasts.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you won't forget that I was the first
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  Speaker 1: to bring you the good news, and now I must
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  Speaker 1: be going back to him, and if you take my advice,
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  Speaker 1: you'll come too and be with him. At the last.
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  Speaker 1: The stag was highly flattered and followed the fox to
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  Speaker 1: the lion's den, suspecting nothing. No sooner had he got inside,
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  Speaker 1: then the lion sprang upon him, but he misjudged his spring,
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  Speaker 1: and the stag got away with only his ears torn
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  Speaker 1: and returned as fast as he could to the shelter
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  Speaker 1: of the wood. The fox was mortified, and the lion too,
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  Speaker 1: was dreadfully disappointed, for he was getting very hungry in
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  Speaker 1: spite of his illness, so he begged the fox to
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  Speaker 1: have another try at coaxing the stag to his den.
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  Speaker 1: It'll be almost impossible this time, said the fox, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll try, and off he went to the wood a
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  Speaker 1: second time and found the stag resting and trying to
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  Speaker 1: recover from his fright. As soon as he saw the fox,
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  Speaker 1: he cried, you scoundrel, what do you mean by trying
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  Speaker 1: to lure me to my death like that? Take yourself off,
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  Speaker 1: or I'll do you to death with my horns. But
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  Speaker 1: the fox was entirely shameless. What a coward you are,
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  Speaker 1: said he. Surely you don't think the lion meant any harm. Why,
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  Speaker 1: he was only going to whisper some royal secrets into
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  Speaker 1: your ear when you went off like a scared rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: You have rather disgusted him, and I'm not sure he
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  Speaker 1: won't make the wolf king in stead unless you come
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  Speaker 1: back at once and show you've got some spirit. I
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  Speaker 1: promise you he won't hurt you, and I will be
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  Speaker 1: your faithful servant. The stag was foolish enough to be
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  Speaker 1: persuaded to return, and this time the lion made no mistake,
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  Speaker 1: but overpowered him and feasted right royally upon his carcass.
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  Speaker 1: The fox, meanwhile, watched his chance, and when the lion
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  Speaker 1: wasn't looking, filched away the brains to reward him for
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  Speaker 1: his trouble. The lion began searching for them, of course,
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  Speaker 1: without success, and the fox, who was watching him, said,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's much use you're looking for the brains.
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  Speaker 1: A creature who twice walked into a lion's den can't
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  Speaker 1: have had any. The end of the Lion, the Fox,
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  Speaker 1: and the Stag.
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  Speaker 4: The Man who Lost his spade. A man was engaged
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  Speaker 4: in digging over his vineyard, and one day, on coming
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  Speaker 4: to work, he missed his spade, Thinking it may have
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  Speaker 4: been stolen by one of his laborers, he questioned them closely,
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  Speaker 4: but they one and all denied any nuther knowledge of it.
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  Speaker 4: He was not convinced by their denials, and insisted that
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  Speaker 4: they should all go to the town and take oath
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  Speaker 4: in a temple that they were not guilty of the theft.
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  Speaker 4: This was because he had no great opinion of the
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  Speaker 4: simple country deities, but thought that the thief would not
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  Speaker 4: pass undetected by the shrewder gods of the town. When
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  Speaker 4: they got inside the gates, the first thing they heard
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  Speaker 4: was the town crier proclaiming a reward for information about
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  Speaker 4: a thief who had stolen something from the city temple. Well,
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  Speaker 4: said the man to himself, it strikes me I had
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  Speaker 4: better go back home again. If these town gods can't
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  Speaker 4: detect the thieves who steal from their own temples, it's
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  Speaker 4: scarcely likely they can tell me who stole my spade.
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  Speaker 4: The end of the Man who lost his spade.
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  Speaker 1: Esop's fables The Partridge and the Fowler. A fowler caught
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  Speaker 1: a partridge in his nets and was just about to
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  Speaker 1: wring its neck when it made a piteous appeal to
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  Speaker 1: him to spare its life, and said, do not kill me,
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  Speaker 1: but let me live, and I will repay you for
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  Speaker 1: your kindness by decoying other partridges into your nets. No,
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  Speaker 1: said the fowler, I will not spare you. I was
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  Speaker 1: going to kill you anyhow, and after that treacherous speech,
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  Speaker 1: you thoroughly deserve your fate. End of the Partridge and
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  Speaker 1: the Fowler. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: A slave, being discontented with his lot, ran away from
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  Speaker 1: his master. He was soon missed by the latter, who
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  Speaker 1: lost no time in mounting his horse and setting out
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  Speaker 1: in pursuit of the fugitive. He presently came up with
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  Speaker 1: him and the slave, in the hope of avoiding capture,
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  Speaker 1: slipped into a treadmill and hid himself there, Aha, said
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  Speaker 1: the master. That's the very place for you, my man,
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  Speaker 1: and of the runaway slave.
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  Speaker 4: The Hunter and the Woodman. A hunter was searching in
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  Speaker 4: the forest for the tracks of a lion, and catching
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  Speaker 4: sight presently of a woodman engaged in felling a tree.
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  Speaker 4: He went up to him and asked him if he
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  Speaker 4: had noticed a lion's footprints anywhere about, or if he
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  Speaker 4: knew where his den was. The woodman answered, if you
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  Speaker 4: will come with me, I will show you the lion himself.
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  Speaker 4: The hunter turned pale with fear, and his teeth chattered
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  Speaker 4: as he replied, oh, I am not looking for the lion, thanks,
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  Speaker 4: but only for his tracks. The end of the Hunter
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  Speaker 4: and the Woodman.
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  Speaker 5: an eagle swooped down upon a serpent and seized it
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  Speaker 5: in his talons, with the intention of carrying it off
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  Speaker 5: and devouring it. But the serpent was too quick for
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  Speaker 5: him and had its coils round him in a moment,
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  Speaker 5: and then there ensued a life and death struggle between
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  Speaker 5: the two. A countryman who was a witness of the
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  Speaker 5: encounter came to the assistance of the eagle and succeeded
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  Speaker 5: in freeing him from the serpent and enabling him to escape.
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  Speaker 5: In revenge, the serpent spat some of his poison into
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  Speaker 5: the man's drinking horn. Heated with his exertions, the man
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  Speaker 5: was about to slake his thirst with a draft from
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  Speaker 5: the horn when the eagle knocked it out of his
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  Speaker 5: hand and spilled its contents upon the ground. One good
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  Speaker 5: turn deserves another, end of The Serpent and the Eagle
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  Speaker 5: read by Michel Crandall, April two thousand six, Fremont, California.
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  Speaker 5: a rogue laid a wager that he would prove the
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  Speaker 5: oracle Delphied to be untrustworthy by procuring from it a
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  Speaker 5: false reply to an inquiry by himself. So he went
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  Speaker 5: to the temple on the appointed day with a small
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  Speaker 5: bird in his hand, which he concealed under the folds
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  Speaker 5: of his cloak, and asked whether what he held in
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  Speaker 5: his hand were alive or dead. If the oracle said dead,
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  Speaker 5: he meant to produce the bird alive. If the reply
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  Speaker 5: was alive, he intended to bring its neck and show
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  Speaker 5: it to be dead. But the oracle was one too
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  Speaker 5: many for him, for the answer he got was this, stranger,
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  Speaker 5: whether the thing that you hold in your hand be
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  Speaker 5: alive or dead is a matter that depends entirely on
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  Speaker 5: your own will. End of The Rogue and the Oracle,
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  Speaker 5: read by Michel Crandall, April two thousand six, Fremont, California.
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  Speaker 5: A horse, proud of his fine harness, met an ass
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  Speaker 5: on the high road. As the ass, with his heavy burden,
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  Speaker 5: moved slowly out of the way to let him pass,
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  Speaker 5: the horse cried out impatiently that he could hardly resist
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  Speaker 5: kicking him to make him move faster. The ass held
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  Speaker 5: his peace, but did not forget the other's insolence. Not
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  Speaker 5: long afterwards, the horse became broken winded and was sold
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  Speaker 5: by his owner to a farmer. One day, as he
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  Speaker 5: was drawing a dung cart, he met the ass again,
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  Speaker 5: who in turn delighted him and said, Aha, you never
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  Speaker 5: thought to come to this, did you? You who were
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  Speaker 5: so proud? Where are all your gay trappings? Now? End
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  Speaker 5: of The Horse and the Ass Read by Michel Crandall,
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  Speaker 5: fables The Dog Chasing a Wolf. A dog was chasing
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  Speaker 5: a wolf, and as he ran, he thought, what a
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  Speaker 5: fine fellow he was, and what strong legs he had,
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  Speaker 5: and how quickly they covered the ground. Now there's this wolf.
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  Speaker 5: He said to himself, what a poor creature he is.
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  Speaker 5: He's no match for me, and he knows it, and
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  Speaker 5: so he runs away. But the wolf looked round just
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  Speaker 5: then and said, don't you imagine I'm running away from you,
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  Speaker 5: my friend. It's your master I'm afraid of. End of
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  Speaker 5: the Dog Chasing a Wolf, read by Michael Crandall, April
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  Speaker 5: two thousand and six, Fremont, California,