WOLF AND SHEPHERDS.
A wandering wolf, that prowled around the fold, Did through the fence behold, How choeing out a sheep, the 7 fattest and the.best, The shepherds at their ease set putting it to death;/ < The dogs lie still and ".don't protest He turned in spite away,- and; snarled beneath his breath/ "Ho,ho, my. worthy friends, you’d . make a fine to-do, If that v/ere me instead of you. '/_•
The above fable; is from a collec-; tion written by Ivan Krylov, the favourite Russian fabulist.Many' storles. are told of . him. Above the couch on which he spent a groat deal of time hung a photograph on tho wall.. When warned that it was likely to fal on him, he replied:”! have w orked out the angle at hich it will fall; it will miss me by two inches” tt n t: tt ft n it ti ti m it it n it LOVING greetings to Sunny Taurange & Marlborough the Golden, from a Pacific isle. WDOCWCXXCLIFI'.
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Dozerdust, Volume 1, Issue 22, 13 November 1943, Page 5
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