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The Ass and the Grasshopper
An Ass having heard some Grasshoppers
chirping, was highly enchanted; and, desiring to possess the same charms
of melody, demanded what sort of food they lived on to give them such beautiful
voices. They replied, "The dew." The Ass resolved that he would
live only upon dew, and in a short time died of hunger.
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