. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . E FOX AND THE GRAPES THE OLD-TIME FABLE A famished fox saw some clusters of ripe blackgrapes hanging from a trellised vine. He re- sorted to many wise tricks to get at them, butwearied himself in vain, for he could not reachthem. At last he turned away, beguiling himselfof his disappointment by saying, The grapes aresour, and not ripe as I thought. MORAL Revile not things beyond your reach. THE FABLE BROUGHT UP TO DATE A cunning fox saw some clusters of grapeshanging from a trellised vine. Those grapes aresweet, thought Reynard
. The Bookshelf for boys and girls Little Journeys into Bookland . E FOX AND THE GRAPES THE OLD-TIME FABLE A famished fox saw some clusters of ripe blackgrapes hanging from a trellised vine. He re- sorted to many wise tricks to get at them, butwearied himself in vain, for he could not reachthem. At last he turned away, beguiling himselfof his disappointment by saying, The grapes aresour, and not ripe as I thought. MORAL Revile not things beyond your reach. THE FABLE BROUGHT UP TO DATE A cunning fox saw some clusters of grapeshanging from a trellised vine. Those grapes aresweet, thought Reynard, and though they area little high, I m bound to have them. Providing himself with a balloon that a care-less aeronaut had left unhitched, and borrowinga basket and a pair of shears from a sleepinggardener, he inflated the balloon at a near-bygas-house, and ascended into the air. He soonarrived at the vine, which he did not leave untilhe had plucked every grape. There was not asour grape on the vine, said Reynard. —Moral:Fly for those things beyond your THE BALLAD OF A RUNAWAY DONKEY 49
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