You must know that sometimes old women like a glass of wine. One of
this sort once found a Wine-jar lying in the road, and eagerly went up
to it hoping to find it full. But when she took it up she found that
all the wine had been drunk out of it. Still she took a long sniff at
the mouth of the Jar. “Ah,” she cried,
“What memories cling ’round the instruments of our pleasure.”
The Fox and the Goat
By an unlucky chance a Fox fell into a deep well from which he could
not get out. A Goat passed by shortly afterwards, and asked the Fox
what he was doing down there. “Oh, have you not heard?” said the Fox;
“there is going to be a great drought, so I jumped down here in order
to be sure to have water by me. Why don’t you come down too?” The Goat
thought well of this advice, and jumped down into the well. But the Fox
immediately jumped on her back, and by putting his foot on her long
horns managed to jump up to the edge of the well. “Good-bye, friend,”
said the Fox, “remember next time,
“Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.”
And this is the end of Æsop’s Fables. HURRAH!
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