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Aesop, in Rhyme

HERCULES AND THE CARTER.

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HERCULES AND THE CARTER.

His cart bemired, a carter pray'd

To Hercules to come and aid.

"Up!" says the God, "thou lazy dog.

And lift the axle from the bog;

Think'st thou Gods nothing have to do

But listen to such knaves as you?"

Illustration 144
Illustration 144
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