Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Crane: The Fox and The Mosquitoes

Being plagued with Mosquitoes
Said old Fox, "Pray don't send them away,
For a hungrier swarm
Would work me more harm;
I had rather the full ones should stay."

THERE WERE POLITICIANS IN AESOP'S TIME


Source: W. J. Linton's fables in verse, with illustrations by Walter Crane: Fable 18.
Vulpes et Muscae; Vulpes et Leo (de Familiaritate)

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