THE FOX AND THE GRAPES.

A hungry Fox coming into a vineyard where there hung delicious

clusters of ripe Grapes, his mouth watered to be at them; but they

were nailed up to a trellis so high, that with all his springing and

leaping he could not reach a single bunch. At last, growing tired and

disappointed, Let who will take them! says he, they are but green and

sour; so I’ll e’en let them alone.

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