. Beasts and men . ONE, TWO, THREE FOLK TALES OF BEASTS AND MEN And then she suddenly tumbled head over heels on the ice,as with one mighty jerk, she snapped her beautiful bushytail clean off close to the roots. When she had gathered her scattered wits together wellenough to understand what had happened, she went to lookfor Reynard, but he had suddenly remembered an importantengagement elsewhere, and was not to be found. And fromthat time down to this every bear has been born with a littlestumpy

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