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Another Æsop fable from Project Gutenberg
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| A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover | |
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| some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, "What a noble bird I see above me! | |
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www.gutenberg.net/1/1/3/3/ 11339/11339-h/11339-h.htm #THE_FOX_AND_THE_CROW
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| If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The Crow was hugely flattered by this, | |
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| and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the Fox, snatching it up, said, "You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits." | |
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| The moral, of course is that Women are even hungrier for compliments than they are for condiments. | |
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| Have you ever been to Indiana? Trust me, no woman I know is giving up a piece of cheese that easily. | |
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