Page:Skeealyn Aesop a Selection of Aesops Fables Translated Into Manx-Gaelic Together with a Few Poems.djvu/55

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THE DOG IN THE MANGER.


A dog was lying in a manger, and by his growling and snapping preventing the oxen from eating the hay put there for them.

"What a selfish dog!" said one of them to his comrades. "He cannot eat the hay himself, and yet he refuses to allow us to eat it."