Fable #469

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Some Boys were playing one day at the edge of a pond in which lived a family of Frogs. But they soon saw who he was. But while they were debating how best to meet death, they thought they heard a noise and in a flash were scampering off to the warren. Your black stiff quills are not worth having. The Monkey sat up, grave and dignified, on the Dolphin's back. Then is the time to eat me. The Wolf could not help thinking how nice it would be to have a fine fat Dog to eat instead of the scrawny object before him. Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore. As for you, you can use your legs so well that I should have little chance of collecting the debt if I had to catch you for it!

Do not play tricks on your neighbors unless you can stand the same treatment yourself.