January 2011
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A MADE-UP FABLE
THE COCK, THE PUSSY AND THE ASS There was once a proud cock, who was in envy of his master’s pussycat. “Why,” he said, “here I am, having to wake myself before dawn to crow for the master, and my rewards are to sleep in a cold, damp chicken coop, and eat the same tasteless grain, day after day. Yet the puss does naught but sleep on the verandah, and rub herself against the...