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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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3. A Man Is Undone By Two Loving Wives
There once was a time, very long, long ago,
When a man with
two
wives was thought bolder,
So one middle-aged fellow whose hair was half grey
Married two wives, one young
and one older.
The younger thought hubby should always look young,
So she'd pull out grey hairs
from his head,
But the older wife wanted a mate her own age,
So she'd snatch out the black
hairs instead.
Of course he was flattered they loved him so much
And rejoiced he was
multiply
wed
Till one morning he looked in the mirror to find
There was NOT ONE HAIR left on
his head.
MORAL: Wanting too much can leave one empty-handed.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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