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Yet another real Æsop Fable
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| A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth. "I was once a princess," said she, | |
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| "the daughter of a King of Athens, but my husband used me cruelly, and cut out my tongue for a slight fault. Then, to protect me from further injury, I was turned by Juno into a bird." | |
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| "You chatter quite enough as it is," said the Crow. | |
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| "What you would have been like if you hadn't lost your tongue, I can't think." | |
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| The moral—and one you should learn well, son—is this: Women never shut up. | |
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| Makes me wonder what's under that toga. | |
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