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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 195

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old labourer, bent double with ageand toil, was gathering sticks in aforest. At last he grew so tiredand hopeless that he threw downthe bundle of sticks, and cried out : I cannotbear this life any longer. Ah, I wish Deathwould only come and take me ! As he spoke, Death, a grisly skeleton, ^SOPS…

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