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32 The deer misjudges
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40 The fox outwits the crow
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40. The Fox Outwits the Crow
One day a young crow snatched a fat piece of cheese
From the porch of a house made of stone,
Then she flew to the top of a Juniper Tree
To enjoy her good fortune alone.
But a fox passing by got a
whiff of the cheese,
The best of his favorite hors
d'oeuvres,
So he called to the crow,
Hey, you glamorous thing,
Does your voice match your
beautiful curves?
The crow was so pleased by the flattering words
She quickly took out a libretto,
How fondly that fox will listen,
she thought,
To hear how I caw in falsetto.
She opened her mouth--and the
cheese tumbled out,
Which the fox gobbled up full
of malice
While he chuckled to think how
that dim-witted crow
Could believe she was MARIA
CALLAS.
MORAL: Attending to flattery comes at a high price.
from the book Prayers and Fables and the forthcoming book Aesop's Best: 80 Fables in Verse by William Cleary
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