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Fable · Story The Dogs and the Hides Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation) Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation Story
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SOME DOGS famished with hunger saw a number of cowhides steeping in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river, but it happened that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides. Attempt not impossibilities.
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Author / source Aesop (George Fyler Townsend translation)
Period Ancient Greek fable tradition · Townsend translation
Form Story
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Three Hundred Aesop’s Fables · George Fyler Townsend translation · Fable 267: The Dogs and the Hides
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