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 24
ng chestnuts, but scarcely had he touchedthe hot ashes than he drew back with a cry, forhe had burnt his paw, but he tried again, andmanaged to pull one chestnut out ; then he pulledanotlier, and a third, though each time he singedthe hair on his paws. When he could pull nomore out he turned about… … thought himself, however, of a device at last thatdid the basiness ; which was, by dropping a greatmany little pebbles into the water and raising it,that way, till he had it within reach. THE LION AND THE FOX. A Lion that had grown old, and no longer hadstrength to forage for food, saw that he must…
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