Aesop's Fables: The Hart and the Hunter
The Deer was once drinking from a
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and admiring the noble figure he made there. "Ah," said he, "where can you see such noble horns as these, with such
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! I wish I had legs more worthy to bear such a noble crown; it is a pity they are so slim and slight."
At that moment a
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approached and sent an arrow whistling after him. Away bounded the Hart, and soon, by the aid of his nimble
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, was nearly out of sight of the Hunter; but not noticing where he was going, he passed under some
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with branches growing low down in which his antlers were caught, so that the
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had time to come up. "Alas! alas!"
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the Hart:
"We often
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what is most useful to us."