Aesop's fables : a new version, chiefly from original sources (1882)
R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor. prt, Murray, John, Aesop, James, Thomas, 1809-1863, Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, Wolf, Joseph, 1820-1899, Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903 · London : John Murray · leaf 151
his skin arose from the nesflect of his formermaster, he no sooner brought him home than he procured allmanner of scouring apparatus, scrubbing-brushes, soaps, andsand-paper, and set to work \vith his servants to wash himwhite again. They drenched and rubbed him for many anhour, but all in vain ;… … Fable 182.—THE ASS, THE COCK, AND THE LIOK An Ass and a Cock lived in a farm-yard together. Oneday a hungry Lion passing by and seeing the Ass in goodcondition, resolved to make a meal of him. Now, they saythat there is nothing a Lion hates so much as the crowing ofa Cock; and at that moment the…
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