Folk Tale
The Jackdaw and the Fox
Author | George Fyler Townsend |
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Book Title | Aesop's Fables |
Publication Date | 1867 |
ATU | 115 |
Language | English |
Origin | Greece |
A HALF-FAMISHED JACKDAW seated himself on a fig-tree, which had produced some fruit entirely out of season, and waited in the hope that the figs would ripen. A Fox seeing him sitting so long and learning the reason of his doing so, said to him, "You are indeed, sir, sadly deceiving yourself; you are indulging a hope strong enough to cheat you, but which will never reward you with enjoyment."
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