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THE SWALLOW 



and more anger and reproof from the 

 swallow. 



Finally, at the third bite which the mon- 

 key took, the little boat sprang a leak and 

 went to the __,.jfM||, bottom. The monkey 

 was quickly ^^^K drowned on account 

 of his own M mmKlSk . stupidity, but the 



swallow saved 



her life by 



' flying away. 



The swallow's shrewdness reaches even 

 to cunning in the two following fables, one 

 of which comes from the far north and tha 

 other from the far south. In these tales 

 our clever little bird outwits two feathered 

 creatures much larger than herself, a raven 

 and a cock. 



