Thursday, October 14, 2010

Crane: The Ass in the Lion's Skin

"What pranks I shall play!" thought the Ass,
"In this skin for a Lion to pass."
But he left one ear out,
And a hiding, no doubt,
"Lion" had - on the skin of an Ass!

IMPOSTORS GENERALLY FORGET SOMETHING


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 29.
Asinus in Pelle Leonis

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