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 28
ans pardon. THE KITE AND THE PIGEONS. 13 THE FOX AND.THE STORK. The Fox invited the Stork to sup with him, and placed a shallow dish on the table, out of which it was impossible for the Stork, with her long bill, to get anything, while the Fox could father, in a great fright, finding himself in… … lap up the food with liis tongue, and so the Foxhad the laugh on the Stork. The Stork, in herturn, invited the Fox to dine with her, and sheplaced the food in a long-necked jar, from whichshe could easily feed with her bill, while the Foxcould get nothing, and that was tit for tat. Rudeness…
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