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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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35. The Pigeons Choose a King
Some nervous pigeons, once upon a time,
Were filled with fear of living on the farm,
For a hawk would often swoop
above their coop
Where they were hoping to be
safe from harm.
Don't be alarmed,
that hawk would loudly sing.
It's silly to remain in fear and dread,
Just choose me for you Guardian and King
And you can live in perfect peace instead.
And so the pigeons made the hawk their King,
But soon were filled with TWICE the deep dismay!
That clever Hawk had failed to
make it plain
That Kings get pigeon dinners
every day.
MORAL: Some solutions are worse than the original problem.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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