FABLES. 



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THE EAGLE AND THE FOX. 



Ax Eagle that had young ones, looking for some- 

 thing to feed them with, happened to spy a Fox's 

 Cub that lay basking itself abroad in the sun; she 

 made a stoop, and trussed it immediately; but be- 

 fore she had carried it quite off, the old Fox coming 

 home, implored her, with tears, to spare her Cub, 

 and pity the distress of a poor fond mother, who 

 would think no affliction so great as that of losing 

 her child. The Eagle, whose nest was high in an 

 old hollow tree, thought herself secure from all pro- 

 jects of revenge, and so bore away the Cub to her 

 young ones, without shewing any regard to the 

 supplications of the Fox. But that subtle creature, 

 highly incensed at this outrageous barbarity, ran 

 to an altar, where some country people had been 

 sacrificing a kid in the open fields, and catching up 



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