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...........................14 THE BEAR AND THE FOX ......................................14 THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW .............................14 THE MOUNTAIN IN LABOR ...................................14 THE ASS, THE FOX, AND THE LION .......................15 THE TORTOISE AND THE EAGLE ...........................15 THE FLIES AND THE HONEY-POT ..........................1...

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...winter.” Fair weather friends are not worth much. THE M OUNTAIN IN L ABOR A MOUNTAIN was once greatly agitated. Loud groans and noises were heard, an... ...ied her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces. The Tortoise exclaimed in the mome... ...the neighborhood where he picked up his living, and took up residence in the lakes and pools. But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he cou... ...rried his load with ease, but when he began to ascend the steep path of the mountain, felt his load to be more than he could bear. He entreated his ... ...ng for a King. Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and h... ...preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake. 24 Aesop’s Fables THE B OYS AND THE F ROGS SOME BOYS, playing ne... ... his good gifts very slowly.” The Fox and the Grapes A FAMISHED FOX saw some clusters of ripe black grapes hanging from a trellised vine. She resorted...

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...pes of the coast-line of the land and the sea, and the rivers in them, and mountains, and the like. Look here!” And she made Lucy stand on a chair and... ...a balcony, and the gable end was open, and full of big yellow pumpkins and clusters of grapes hung up to dry; and some goats were feeding round. Then ... ...slope of the hill above the cottage long poles such as hops grow upon, and clusters hanging down. Men in shady, battered hats, bright sashes and brace... ... one bit of sea near it. It’s just one of the strings to the great knot of mountains that tie Europe up in the middle. Oh! what is a mountain like?” T... ...ght,” said the little girl, as the shadows mounted high on the tops of the mountains, leaving them only peaks of rosy light. “Now come to the chalet, ... ... she would like some. He takes her by the hand, and leads her into a whole cluster of little round mud huts, telling her that he is Tojo, the king’s s... ...e found herself standing by a narrow inlet of sea, as blue and smooth as a lake, and closely shut in, except where the bare rock was too steep, or whe... ...ry spoke. Beyond, were beautifully and fan- tastically shaped hills, and a lake below with pleasure boats on it. It was all wonderfully like a pretty ...

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... birth, And none had lived before you!” One morning thus, by Esthwaite lake, When life was sweet, I knew not why, To me my good friend Matthew... ... and quit your books, Or surely you’ll grow double. The sun, above the mountain’s head, A freshening lustre mellow Through all the long green ... ...fifty comely sheep I raised, As sweet a flock as ever grazed! Upon the mountain did they feed; They throve, and we at home did thrive. —This l... ... parish ask’d relief. They said I was a wealthy man; My sheep upon the mountain fed, And it was fit that thence I took Whereof to buy us bread... ...ES LINES LINES LINES Left upon a seat in a YEW TREE, which stands near the Lake of ESTHWAITE, on a desolate part of the shore, yet commanding a beauti... ...uth’s Who sang a doleful song about green fields, How sweet it were on lake or wild savannah, To hunt for food, and be a naked man, And wander... ...as eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That cluster’d round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was w... ... of Spirits blest:” “For when it dawn’d—they dropp’d their arms, And cluster’d round the mast: Sweet sounds rose slowly thro’ their mouths ...

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...rves, trying to find out what’ll amuse him, I guess. Florida, Adirondacks, Lakewood, Hot Springs, New York, and round again. He isn’t much more than a... ...her twenty full feet, only to slide her into a glassy pit beyond. But this mountain- climbing did not interrupt blue-jersey’ s talk. “Fine good job, I... ...ng-dory in mid-ocean. She suffered agonies whenever he went out on Saranac Lake; and, by the way , Harvey remembered distinctly that he used to laugh ... ...ut fifty ton, I guess, – the Rupert, – he run her over to Greenland’ s icy mountains the year ha’ af our fleet was tryin’ alter cod there. An’ what’s ... ... boats swung up through the mists to the southward. The dories gathered in clusters, separated, reformed, and broke again, all heading one way; while ... ...t gain anything by taking a special east of that. Ready? Also arrange with Lake Shore and Michigan Southern to take ‘Constance’ on New Y ork Central a... ...out half the stars. Now scaur and ravine changed and rolled back to jagged mountains on the horizon’ s edge, and now broke into hills lower and lower,...

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...ever, to improve and refine it, presented to the lawn its patches of ivy, its clustered chimneys, its windows smothered in creepers. The house had a na... ...m, and her letters to the Inter viewer, from Washington, Newport, the White Mountains and other places, were universally quoted. Isabel pronounced th... ... haven’t I recommend you to do so; for so long as we continue—Ralph and I—to cluster about Mr. Touchett’s bed you’re not likely to have much society b... ...not deliver herself all at once of these reflexions, which are presented in a cluster for the convenience of the reader. She talked of Florence, where ... ...ght of him under no provocation. Isabel took a walk with the pair beside the lake and thought little Edward as pretty as an angel—a comparison by no m... ...ward told her that he was “defended” by his bonne to go near the edge of the lake, and that one must always obey to one’s bonne. Ned Rosier’s English ... ...l conformed to the spirit of their teaching—he never went to the edge of the lake. There was still something agreeable to the nostrils about him and s... ...ations. The sun had got low, the golden light took a deeper tone, and on the mountains and the plain that stretched beneath them the masses of purple ... ...e point of leaving Florence, her next station being an ancient castle in the mountains of Tuscany, the residence of a noble family of that country, wh...

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...y’s climb—and came out on a line of snow-peaks that banded all the horizon—mountains from fifteen to twenty thousand feet high, looking almost near en... ... tiny terraced fields lay out like aprons of patchwork on the knees of the mountain, and cows no big- ger than beetles grazed between the smooth stone... ...“No blame to my broth- ers that they did not sit by the fire to-night. The mountain is falling. And yet— why should I go?” His eye fell on the empty b... ...ur numbers”; then, whispering to the deer as he saw the lights gather in a cluster: “Stay with me, Brother. Stay—till—I—go!” There was a sigh in the a... ...g back the little river, which had be- gun to spread into a brick-coloured lake. Of the village, of the road to the shrine, of the shrine itself, and ... ... twilight. The broad Indian river, that looked more like a chain of little lakes than a stream, was as smooth as glass, reflecting the sandy-red sky i... ...t to describe his feel- ings after swallowing a seven-pound lump of Wenham Lake ice, off an American ice-ship, in the days before Calcutta made her ic...

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...y international boundaries and/or coastlines, excluding inland water bodies (lakes, reservoirs, rivers). Comparative areas are based on total area equ... ...imate: arid to semiarid; cold winters and hot summers Terrain: mostly rugged mountains; plains in north and southwest Land use: 12% arable land; NEGL%... ...cludes NEGL% irrigated Environment: damaging earthquakes occur in Hindu Kush mountains; soil degradation, desertification, overgrazing, deforestation,... ...ers ; hot, clear, dry summers; interior is cooler and wetter Terrain: mostly mountains and hills; small plains along coast Land use: 21% arable land; ... ...or unimproved earth (1975) Inland waterways: 43 km plus Albanian sections of Lake Scutari, Lake Ohrid, and Lake Prespa (1979) Pipelines: crude oil, 11... ... for military bases Environment: ample rainfall, but no rivers or freshwater lakes; consists of about 360 small coral islands Special notes: 1,050 km ... ...ve Italian Ethnic divisions: primarily Italian but population includes small clusters of German-, French-, and Slovene-Italians in the north and of Al...

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...y detailed littleness of a town viewed from high up on the side of a great mountain. When Mr. Grahame-White told me we were going to plane down I will... ...wasn’t a tithe of the thrill of those three descents one gets on the great mountain railway in the White City. There one gets a dis- agreeable quiver ... ...- mine the aeroplane routes along the line of the world’s coast- lines and lake groups and waterways. The airmen will go to and fro over water as the ... ...most dangerous experience in aviation. They exact a tiring vigilance. Over lake or sea, in sunshine, within sight of land, this is the perfect way of ... ...e from rain and darkness into sunshine, and from heat into the coolness of mountain forests. Children can be sent for education to sea beaches and hea... ... ward to Japan and China, westward to all Europe. See the great slashes of lake, bay, and mountain chain that cut it meridianally. Obviously its main ... ...rdon behind you and push into the thickets. Take, for example, the immense cluster of difficulties that arises out of the increasing complexity of our... ...here is no legal limit to the presentation of candidates, that presently a cluster of the wisest, most trusted and best citizens will come together in... ... property above any other right whatsoever. Such are the details that come clustering into one’s mind in response to the phrase, the American traditio...

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... a poor twopenny mirror. And his feelings too, his whole experience—what a lake compared with my little pool!” Miss Brooke argued from words and dispo... ...s ended in a level of corn and pastures, which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the s... ...an farmer. It was not the less agreeable an object in the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn ricks which balanced the fine row of walnuts on th... ...d as a future husband, and yet remain virtually unknown— known merely as a cluster of signs for his neighbors’ false suppositions. There was a general... ...ere Torso in the Vatican and was looking out on the magnificent view of the mountains from the adjoining round vestibule. He was 152 Book II — Old and... ...at takes me at once as noble—something that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greate... ... time lived in a rarefied social air: dotted apart on their stations up the mountain they looked down with imperfect discrimination on the belts of thi... ...presence at that moment was perhaps no more than a spoonful brought to the lake, and her woman’s instinct in this matter was not dull. “What is absorb... ...ing to waste much of his talk on Hopkins. Soon, however, there was a small cluster of more important listeners, who were either deposited from the pas...

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...a poor twopenny mirror. And his feelings too, his whole experience— what a lake compared with my little pool!” Miss Brooke argued from words and dispo... ...s ended in a level of corn and pastures, which often seemed to melt into a lake under the setting sun. This was the happy side of the house, for the s... ... not the less agreeable an object in 95 George Eliot the distance for the cluster of pinnacled corn-ricks which bal- anced the fine row of walnuts on... ...ed as a future husband, and yet remain virtually unknown—known merely as a cluster of signs for his neighbors’ false suppositions. There was a gen- er... ...Torso in the V atican and was looking out on the magnifi- cent view of the mountains from the adjoining round vestibule. He was sufficiently absorbed ... ... takes me at once as noble—some- thing that I might compare with the Alban Mountains or the sunset from the Pincian Hill; but that makes it the greate... ...at Caleb volunteered so long a speech, but his happiness had the effect of mountain air: his eyes were bright, and the words came without effort. “I c... ...presence at that moment was perhaps no more than a spoonful brought to the lake, and her woman’s instinct in this matter was not dull. “What is absorb... ...ing to waste much of his talk on Hopkins. Soon, however, there was a small cluster of more important listen- ers, who were either deposited from the p...