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
evice 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 getit by cunning. Well, he went… … he could not come at it. He tried first to breakthe Pitcher and then to overturn it, but it wasboth too strong and too heavy for him. He be- cHught in this way, the Fox, who suspected whathis trick was, came along, and taking his standoutside the den, and a little way off, asked theLion how he did.…
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