one day a crow had snatched a fine piece of cheese out of a window, and flew with it into a high tree A fox saw this and waiting the cheese for himself, said :
-Oh, crow, how beautiful are your wings!
-How bright your eye!
-How fine your neck
-Your breast is the breast of an eagle
-Your claws.........i beg pardon your talons....are match for all the beasts of field
-Oh, that such a bird should be dumb and want only a voice!
The crow was pleased to hear all this. Chuckling to think how she would surprise the fox with her caw, she opened her mouth.
Down dropped the cheese which the fox snapped up.
-Oh, crow, how beautiful are your wings!
-How bright your eye!
-How fine your neck
-Your breast is the breast of an eagle
-Your claws.........i beg pardon your talons....are match for all the beasts of field
-Oh, that such a bird should be dumb and want only a voice!
The crow was pleased to hear all this. Chuckling to think how she would surprise the fox with her caw, she opened her mouth.
Down dropped the cheese which the fox snapped up.
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