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Three hundred Aesop’s fables

The Fox and the Lion

George Fyler Townsend translation

A FOX saw a Lion confined in a cage, and standing near him, bitterly reviled him. The Lion said to the Fox, “It is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.”

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