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Aesop's Fables; a new translation

THE TRAVELLER AND HIS DOG

V. S. (Vernon Stanley) Vernon Jones translation

A Traveller was about to start on a journey, and said to his Dog, who was stretching himself by the door, "Come, what are you yawning for? Hurry up and get ready: I mean you to go with me." But the Dog merely wagged his tail and said quietly, "I'm ready, master: it's you I'm waiting for."

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