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 THE SPARROW AND THE CROW

But the Grass said, ‘Certainly I will give you Grass; but ﬁrst you must go to the Blacksmith, and ask him to make you a sickle. Then you can cut me, for who ever heard of Grass cutting itself?'

So the Crow went to the Blacksmith, and said—

‘With pleasure,’ said the Blacksmith, ‘if you will light the fire and blow the bellows.'