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The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced (1894)

Kely and Sons, binders, Jacobs, Joseph, 1854-1916, ed, Heighway, Richard, ill · London ; New York : Macmillan & Company · leaf 173

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HE Wind and the Sun were disputingwhich was the stronger. Suddenlythey saw a traveller coming downthe road, and the Sun said : I seea way to decide our dispute. Whichever ofus can cause that traveller to take off his cloak shall be regarded as thestronger. You begin.So the Sun retired be-hind a… … ^SOPS FABLES H3 up in despair. Then the Sun came out andshone in all his glory upon the traveller, whosoon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on. l&iittmegg tffectg more tfjan S>d)rat|>*

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