. In fableland . uld not move. Thena big fox pushed him away. Look! Look! cried the old has already lost his tail. All hewants is to help himself and not us. 162 THE CAT AND THE CHESTNUTS Jocko and Pussy were one day tak-ing a walk. Oh, see, said Jocko, here is a firewhich some hunters have left. Let ussit down and warm ourselves. I wish we had something to eat,said Puss. Here are some chestnuts, saidJocko. Let us roast them the waythe men do. How is that? said Pussy. First you drop them on the coals,this way, said Jocko. After they 153 burst open I will show you how to getthem out. I h
. In fableland . uld not move. Thena big fox pushed him away. Look! Look! cried the old has already lost his tail. All hewants is to help himself and not us. 162 THE CAT AND THE CHESTNUTS Jocko and Pussy were one day tak-ing a walk. Oh, see, said Jocko, here is a firewhich some hunters have left. Let ussit down and warm ourselves. I wish we had something to eat,said Puss. Here are some chestnuts, saidJocko. Let us roast them the waythe men do. How is that? said Pussy. First you drop them on the coals,this way, said Jocko. After they 153 burst open I will show you how to getthem out. I have never eaten any, said they very good? Oh, they are fine, said will like them better than any-thing you have ever tasted. I think they are done, said how do we get them? That is easy, Pussy, said Jocko. You take your paw and pull them outof the fire. Then I will break themopen. But, Jocko, said Pussy, the fire isso hot, I shall burn my paw. I am sure you can get the chestnuts. 154. if you try, Pussy, said Jocko. Yourpaw is almost exactly like a manshand. Pussy was pleased at this. Shereached for the chestnuts, but the coalsburned her paw and she began to cry. 165 Dont cry, Pussy, said Jocko. Tryagain. You are so clever, I am sureyou can get them. Pussy tried again and again. Atlast she got three chestnuts out of thefire. I cant get any more, Jocko, shesaid. My paw is dreadfully me the three chestnuts. I wantto taste them. But Jocko had eaten the chestnutswhen Pussy was not looking. A cats paw, he said, can pullchestnuts out of a fire better than any-thing I know of. 156 THE EAGLE AND THE TORTOISE One day the tortoise saw an eagle was high above him in thesky. How fine it must be to fly in theair like that! said the tortoise. I amtired of crawling about on the want to learn to fly. Soon the eagle came down near thetortoise. Oh, Eagle, said the tortoise, wontyou teach me how to fly? Why, Tortoise, said the eagle, you
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