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31 A man argues
32 The deer misjudges
33 The dying farmer
34 The baby goat
35 The pigeons choose
36 The big trees
37 A mean dog
38 The selfish horse
39 A boy cries wolf
40 The fox outwits the crow
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32. The Deer Misjudges His Talents
One summer's day a beautiful deer
Saw his face in the lake as he
drank,
How lovely and strong are my horns,
said he,
But my legs! how skinny and lank!
Just then some hunters and hounds drew near,
And the legs of the deer raced
well,
And he would have escaped-but his horns got caught
In a branch! With one arrow, he
fell.
MORAL: Embarrassing things about ourselves my be our greatest strength.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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