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And here I'll stay:

Go out yourself, if you find things unpleasant!"

In a companion one may find a master.

A solitary life is dull, you say;

Life with a Hedgehog is a worse disaster.

(Henri Richer, Fables. Translated by the Rev. Wm. Lucas Collins.)

THE ASS AND THE HORSE

(Antoine François le Bailly, Fables Nouvelles. Translated by the Rev. Wm. Lucas Collins.)

LITTLE band of gamesome Apes, one day,

Met in the woods to play.

The game was this: one had to hide his face