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The Seagull and the Kite
| Author | George Fyler Townsend | 
|---|---|
| Book Title | Aesop's Fables | 
| Publication Date | 1867 | 
| Language | English | 
| Origin | Greece | 
A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him and exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea." Every man should be content to mind his own business.
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