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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 98

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The Serpent & the File. A Serpent in the course of its wanderingscame into an armourers shop. As he glidedover the floor he felt his skin pricked by afile lying there. In a rage he turned roundupon it and tried to dart his fangs into it;but he could do no harm to heavy iron andhad soon to give…

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