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The fox one day thought of a plan to amuse himself at the expense of the stork, at whose odd appearance he was always laughing. “You must come and dine with me today,” he said to the stork, smiling to himself at the trick he was going to play. The stork gladly accepted the invitation and arrived in good time and with a very good appetite. “The Fox and the Stork,” illustrated by Milo Winter, from “The Aesop for Children,” 1919. (PD-US) For dinner the fox served soup. But it was set out in a very shallow dish, and all the stork could do was to wet the very tip of his bill. Not a drop of soup could he get. But the fox lapped it up easily, and, to increase the disappointment of the stork, made a great show of enjoyment. ...

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