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 26
at chance,went back to the Jackdaws, but they did not knowhim on account of his white coat, and would notlet him join them, and so for wanting to get intotwo companies he missed both. The fable teaches us that we ought to be con-tent with our own, arguing that covetousness isnot only of no avail… … pened on him he was frightened, to be sure, butnot so much as before; when he saw him a third 12 THE BOOK OF FABLES. time, he plucked up courage enough to go up and look as if. you led an easy life of it. That Ispeak to him. do, quoth the Dog: I have all I can eat and The story teaches that…
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