"As far as you like. Don't be afraid, for, at a word, the sea would go
or come as I bid, and as you have already seen."
The wolf believed the fox, and followed the waves rather far from the
shore. A great wave soon upset him, and threw up his carcass on the
shore. The fox made a hearty breakfast on it, saying, "_The fool's ear
was made for the knave's tongue_."
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