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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 33

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A COCK was once strutting up anddown the farmyard among the henswhen suddenly he espied somethingshining amid the straw. Ho !ho ! quoth he, thats for me/5 and soonrooted it out from beneath the straw. Whatdid it turn out to be but a Pearl that bysome chance had been lost in the yard ? You may be a… … AESOPS FABLES

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