Aesop's Fables: The Fox and the Stork
At one time the
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and the Stork were on visiting terms and seemed very good
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. So the Fox invited the Stork to dinner, and for a joke put nothing before her but some
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in a very shallow dish. This the Fox could easily
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, but the Stork could only wet the end of her long bill in it, and left the meal as
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as when she began. "I am
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," said the Fox, "the soup is just not your thing."
"Do not apologise," said the Stork. "I hope you will return this visit, and come and have diner with me soon." So a day was appointed when the Fox should visit the Stork; but when they were seated at
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all that was for their dinner was contained in a very long-necked jar with a narrow mouth, in which the Fox could not insert his snout, so all he could manage to do was to
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the outside of the jar.
"I will not
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for the dinner," said the Stork:
"One bad turn deserves another."