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 27
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 familiarity makes terri-ble things much less frightful. THE TORTOISE… … He told her it was impossible, but as she stillpersisted and begged him, he seized her, bore heraloft, and then let her drop upon a rock, but theblow knocked the breath out of her body. The fable teaches that men who are enviousand refuse to take the advice of those who knowmore than themselves are…
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