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300 favourite fables with illustrations by Arthur Rackham

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THE DOG AND THE SHADOW
A DOG was crossing a plank bridge over a stream with a piece of meat in his mouth, when he happened to see his own reflection in the water. He thought it was another dog with a piece of meat twice as big ; so he let go his own, and flew at the other dog to get the larger piece. But, of course, all that happened was that he got neither : for one was only a shadow, and the other was carried away by the current.
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