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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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5. An Astrologer Suffers a Foolish Accident
One famous Astrologer studied the stars,
So he could the future foretell!
With his eyes on the sky he went walking one night
And by accident fell down a
well.
He shouted and screamed till a farmer nearby
Pulled him out--but reviled his
conceit,
Pray tell,
said the farmer,
why pry into stars
But lose track of what's under
you feet?
MORAL: In flights of abstraction, watch your step
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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