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The Old Woman and the Wine-Jar
AN OLD WOMAN found an empty jar which had lately been full
of prime old wine and which still retained the fragrant smell of its
former contents. She greedily placed it several times to her nose,
and drawing it backwards and forwards said, "O most delicious!
How nice must the Wine itself have been, when it leaves behind in
the very vessel which contained it so sweet a perfume!"
The memory of a good deed lives.
The Fox and the Crow
A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it
in her beak. A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat
himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded. "How handsome is
the Crow," he exclaimed, in the beauty of her shape and in the
fairness of her complexion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]! Oh, if her voice were only equal to
her beauty, she would deservedly be considered the Queen of
Birds!" This he said deceitfully; but the Crow, anxious to refute
the reflection cast upon her voice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], set up a loud caw and dropped
the flesh. The Fox quickly picked it up,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and thus addressed the
Crow: "My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is
wanting."
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