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 23
t a net in his field in order tocatch Cranes and Geese that were eating theyoung growth there. Novr a Stork that wascaught with them, and had bruised his foot, too,begged the Farmer to let him go free ; he urgedhim piteously, thus : Save me, good man, let mego, have pity upon a poor weak thing that… … the Farmer laughed heartily, and said . Oh, Iknow you, I m not ignorant; I know exactlywhat you are. But you have been caught withthe others and must die like them. The fable teaches that it is wise to run awajand not consort with wicked men, lest we fall intothe same troubles that entrap them. THE…
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