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 33
s theywere left unprotected the Wolves ate them up. If you listen to your enemy you will get your-self into danger. THE SPENDTHRIFT AND THE SWALLOW. A DISSOLUTE young man who had spent all hisfortune, and had only his cloak left, when he spied 18 THE BOOK OF FABLES. a Swallow coming forth out of… … dead, and said to her : Ah, my friend, you haveruined me, and are lost yourself. The fable teaches that one swallow does notmake a summer. THE ARAB AND HIS CAMEL. One cold night, as an Arab sat in his tent, aCamel gently thrust the flap of the tent aside andlooked in. I pray thee, master, he said,…
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