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Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks

The Ass In The Lion's Skin.

W. T. (William Trowbridge) Larned translation

For Sale.
For Sale.

An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed

Made everybody fear.

And this was queer,

Because he was himself afraid.

Yet everywhere he strayed

The people ran like deer.

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Ah, ah! He is betrayed:

No lion has that long and hairy ears.

No lion has that long and hairy ear!
No lion has that long and hairy ear!

Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk

Who are not in the secret of the joke,

With open mouths and eyes

Stare at old Martin's prize--

A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.

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