The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced . NCE upon a time there was a Miserwho used to hide his gold at thefoot of a tree in his garden ; butevery week he used to go and digit up and gloat over his gains. A robber, whohad noticed this, went and dug up the goldand decamped with it. When the Miser nextcame to gloat over his treasures, he foundnothing but the empty hole. He tore hishair, and raised such an outcry that all theneighbours came around him, and he toldthem how he used to come and visit his ^SOPS FABLES H7 gold. cc Did you ever take any of it out ? asked one of
The fables of Æsop, selected, told anew and their history traced . NCE upon a time there was a Miserwho used to hide his gold at thefoot of a tree in his garden ; butevery week he used to go and digit up and gloat over his gains. A robber, whohad noticed this, went and dug up the goldand decamped with it. When the Miser nextcame to gloat over his treasures, he foundnothing but the empty hole. He tore hishair, and raised such an outcry that all theneighbours came around him, and he toldthem how he used to come and visit his ^SOPS FABLES H7 gold. cc Did you ever take any of it out ? asked one of them. Nay, said he, I only came to look at it. Then come again and look at the hole,1 said a neighbour ; it will do you just as much good. (Laiealrf) tmugcti mfgljt atf toell not txi$U
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