AMERICAN FABLES.
A Fox who had gorged himself with three fowls was sitting in a fence corner with a disgusted look on his face when along came a peasant, who said: 11 The only thing I have against you is that you steal my fowls." " If that' all we can be friends," replied the fox. " How ?" " Why, I am ready to promise that I will never again disturb the peaca of ydt^ hen-roost." rr "Honest?" " Honest Injun," said Reynard as he laid his paw on his stomach. Two days afterwards the peasant was crossing his fields when he suddenly came upon the fox devouring one of hi 3 finest hens. " Ha! but itis scarcely forty -eight hours since you promised to let ray fowls alone!" " Yes, I know," replied Eeynard as he gulped down a leg; « but just then I was stuffed with chicken and could hold no more," Mobal: Don't expect that what a man promises on a full stomach will be earned out on an empty one.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4563, 20 August 1883, Page 2
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169AMERICAN FABLES. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4563, 20 August 1883, Page 2
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