The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 20
to run into-the mouth of asleeping Lion, who roused himself, caught him,and was just about eating him, when the littlefellow begged him to let him go, saying, If I amsaved, I shall be everlastingly grateful. So, witha smile, he let him off. It befell him, not longafter, to be saved by the Mouses… … could receive no return from me, but now, you see,it is you who have to be grateful to me. The story shows that there come sudden changesof affairs, when the most powerful owe everythingto the weakest. THE GOOSE THAT LAID GOLDEN EGGS. Theee was a Man who once had a very hand-some Goose, that always…
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