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| ONE day a Mouse , hot and thirsty, | |
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jaws escaped, Crept to the edge of the pond to Cool his muzzle in the water. There from a lily-pad Puff-jaw spied Him and called in such words as these: "Stranger, who are you? By what right Do you take water from the Frogs' pond?" To which the Mouse, his strength still spent, Remembering the weasel and Uncertain of the Frog, replied: "Crum-snatcher is my name, son of Cake-eater, the stout-hearted, and Quern-licker, Daughter of Ham-gnawer, the King. In the mouse-hole she bore me and There nourished me with figs and nuts. I drink now to slake my thirst as All creatures must. Nature's law it is, And Nature the pond provided." |
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