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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 97

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74 ^SOP S FABLES. I shall refuse every one of them, and with a disdainful tossturn from them. Transported with this idea, she could not forbear acting with her headthe thought that thus passed inher mind; when, down camethe can of milk ! and all herimaginary happiness vanishedin a moment. … Fable 105.—THE BEEVES AND THE BUTCHEEa The Beeves, once on a time, determined to make an endof the Butchers, whose whole art, they said, was conceivedfor their destruction. So they assembled together, and hadalready w^hetted their horns for the contest, when a very oldOx, who had long worked at the…

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