 | Aesopus - 1878 - 378 sidor
...be served at half price. FABLES. 117 FABLE XXIII. & Sfo1 tfjat fjato lost fjis A FOX taken in a trap was glad to compound for his neck, by leaving his tail behind him. It was so uncouth a sight for a Fox to appear without a tail, that the very thought of it made him... | |
 | Aesop - 1886 - 360 sidor
...directly, and be served at half price. FABLE XXIII. & Joi tfjat tafc lost i)ia SCatl. A FOX taken in a trap was glad to compound for his neck, by leaving his tail behind him. It was so uncouth a sight for a Fox to appear without a tail, that the very thought of it made him... | |
 | Shapland Hugh Swinny - 1905 - 670 sidor
....disop (Sir Roger L'Estrange, 1669), the fable runs thus : — " There was a Fox taken in a trap, that was glad to compound for his neck by leaving his tail behind him. It was so uncouth a sight, for a Fox to appear without a tail, that the very thought on't made him... | |
 | Frederic Taber Cooper - 1921 - 574 sidor
...pray. (Fable 81 Halm; Thomas James' translation.) THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL A FOX being caught in a trap, was glad to compound for his neck by leaving his tail behind him; but upon coming abroad into the world, he began to be so sensible of the disgrace such a defect would... | |
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THE FOX WITHOUT A TAIL A Fox being caught in a trap, was glad to compound for his neck by leaving his tail behind him ; but upon coming abroad into the world, he began to be so sensible of the disgrace such a defect would bring upon him, that he almost... 
