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Group One
1 City mouse...
2 The bald knight
3 A man is undone
4 The peace-loving sun
5 An astrologer suffers
6 The wise wasp
7 The little mice
8 The thirsty crow
9 The canny dog
10 The wounded wolf
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1. City Mouse and Country Mouse Exchange Visits
A wealthy city mouse once came
To view his country cousin's clutter,
He stayed for lunch but all they ate
Were sandwiches of peanut butter.
You call that lunch?
the rich mouse said,
Call this a house?
He laughed with glee,
Come into town tonight,
he said,
Step up a notch and visit me!
So in they went and to a house
With walls of stone and gardens
green,
And soon were eating steaks and
chops
And every kind of haute cuisine.
This is the life!
said Country Mouse,
I've been a bumpkin long enough!
THEN suddenly four dogs burst in
With masters shouting, loud and gruff.
LOOK OUT!
the city cousin screamed
And dove into a bag of coal,
The country mouse leaped to the floor
And ran like lightning down a hole,
And never stopped until he came
Back to his peaceful country
door.
Enough!
he said,
of city life,
It's great--but not worth dying
for.
MORAL: Peace of mind is the greatest wealth.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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