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 56
But when he came upto it, he found the water so low that with all his stoopingand straining: he was unable to reach it. Thereupon he triedto break the Pitcher; then to overturn it; but his strengthwas not sufficient to do either. At last, seeing some smallpebbles at hand, he dropped a great many of… … Fable 48.—THE ONE-EYED DOE. A Doe that had but one eye used to graze near the sea,and that she might be the more secure from attack, kept hereye towards the land against the approach of the hunters,and her blind side towards the sea, whence she feared nodanger. But some sailors rowing by in a boat…
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