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A shut up in a cage was boasting of the large number of the young ones which she had hatched. A Crow hearing her, said: "My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting. The larger the number of your family, the greater your cause of sorrow, in seeing them shut up in this prison-house."

A and a Satyr once poured out libations together in token of a bond of alliance being formed between them. One very cold wintry day, as they talked L