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THE FOX AND THE BRAMBLE
IN making his way through a hedge a Fox missed his footing and caught at a Bramble to save himself from falling. Naturally, he got badly scratched, and in disgust he cried to the Bramble, It was your help I wanted, and see how you have treated me ! I'd sooner have fallen outright," The Bramble, interrupting him, replied, You must have lost your wits, my friend, to catch at me, who am myself always catching at others," |
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THE FOX AND THE SNAKE
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SNAKE, in crossing a river, was carried away by the current, but managed to wriggle on to a bundle of thorns which was floating by, and was thus carried at a great rate downstream. A Fox caught sight of it from the bank as it went whirling along, and called out, " Gad ! the passenger fits the ship ! ' |
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THE LION, THE FOX, AND THE STAG
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LION lay sick in his den, unable to provide himself with food. So he said to his friend the Fox, who came to ask how he did, ' My good friend, I wish you would go to yonder wood and beguile the big Stag,
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