Monday, October 11, 2010

Crane: The Cat and The Fox

The Fox said "I can play when it fits
Many wiles that with man make me quits."
"But my trick's up a tree!"
Said the Cat, safe to see
Clever Fox hunted out of his wits.

TRUST TO SKILL RATHER THAN WIT


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 52.
Feles et Gallus; Feles et Vulpes

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