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17. A Gluttonous Mouse Gets Trapped in a Box A mouse, lean and hungry, squeezed into a box Full of barley and ate like a pig, Then he tried to get out--but the hole was too small For a mouse with a stomach so big. HELP! HELP! screamed the mouse at a weasel nearby, But the weasel said, Wait awhile, sir, You can only accomplish such difficult things When you're hungry and lean like you were. MORAL: There are some things only hungry people can accomplish. from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary

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