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Fable · Story

The Dove and the Crow

Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation)Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translationStory
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A DOVE shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: “My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house.”