Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 49
dye rats your will, ye would not rule yourselves. Asfor me, said the mouse, I see so much that wouldcome afterwards that never shall the Cat or the Kittenbe vexed by my counsel. And talk no more of thiscollar, that never cost me aught, and though it hadcost my goods I would not confess it, but… … THE OLD HARE AND THE ELEPHANTS (From the Hitopadeca, Translated by Edwin Arnold.) NCE on a time verylittle rain had fallenin the due season;and the elephants,being oppressedwith thirst, thus ac-costed their leader: Master, how arewe to live? Thesmall creatures findsomething to wash in, but we…
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