The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . FOX AND THE GRAPES. A Fox, who was hungry, found somebunches of grapes upon a vine high up atree. He longed to get at them, but couldnot. So he left them hanging there andwent off, saying to himself: — They are sour grapes. That is what people sometimes do whenthey cannot get what they want; they makebelieve that what they want is good fornothing. THE BOOK OF FABLES. 49. XLI. THE FOUR BULLS AND THE LION. Four Bulls once agreed to live together,and they fed in the same pasture. Now theLion saw them afar off, and wanted to huntthem, but he knew tha
The book of fables, chiefly from Aesop . FOX AND THE GRAPES. A Fox, who was hungry, found somebunches of grapes upon a vine high up atree. He longed to get at them, but couldnot. So he left them hanging there andwent off, saying to himself: — They are sour grapes. That is what people sometimes do whenthey cannot get what they want; they makebelieve that what they want is good fornothing. THE BOOK OF FABLES. 49. XLI. THE FOUR BULLS AND THE LION. Four Bulls once agreed to live together,and they fed in the same pasture. Now theLion saw them afar off, and wanted to huntthem, but he knew that he could not so longas they held together. So he managed to set them quarrelingwith each other, and when that happened,they separated, and he easily mastered themone at a time. 60 THE BOOK OF FABLES.
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