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THE FOX AND THE GRAPES.


A famished fox saw some clusters of grapes hanging from a vine. She strove by all her tricks to get at them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them. At length she turned away, beguiling herself of her disappointment and saying : "The grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought."