[Illustration: THE FOX AND THE GRAPES.]
A Fox, very hungry, chanced to come into a vineyard, where there hung
branches of charming ripe grapes; but nailed up to a trellis so high,
that he leaped till he quite tired himself, without being able to reach
one of them. At last--'Let who will take them!' says he, 'they are but
green and sour; so I will even let them alone.'