Aesops Fables a New Version Chiefly From Original Sources
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, ! r'4fi ' tr:'S;#-»=^'--^ ^ - -^ viv«^'':-f^i^'^2rf^ir'T^^ Fable LXXXIII. THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL. A Fox "being cauglit in a trap, was glad to compound for Ms neck by leaving Ms tail beMnd Mm; but upon coming abroad into tlie vv^orld, lie began to be so sensible of tlie disgrace sucli a defect would bring ujjon Mm, that lie almost wished he had died rather than come away without it. However, resohdng to make the best of a bad matter, he called a meeting of the rest of the Foxes, and proj^osed ...that all should follow Ms example. " You have no notion, '' said he, " of the ease and comfort with which I noAV move about: I could never have believed it if I had not tried it myself; but 13 98 THE YIPER AXD THE FILE. really, wlien one comes to reason upon it, a tail is such an ugly, inconvenient, unnecessary appendage, tliat tlie only wonder is tliat, as Foxes, we could have jDut U23 with it so long. I propose, therefore, my worthy brethren, that you all profit by the experience that ] am most willing to afford you, and that all Foxes from this day forward cut off their tails.
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