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Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Swallow and the Crow

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3900338Æsop's Fables: A New Translation — The Swallow and the CrowVernon S. Vernon JonesAesop

THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW

A SWALLOW was once boasting to a Crow about her birth. “I was once a princess,” said she, “the daughter of a King of Athens, but my husband used me cruelly, and cut out my tongue for a slight fault. Then, to protect me from further injury, I was turned by Juno into a bird.” “You chatter quite enough as it is,” said the Crow. “What you would have been like if you hadn’t lost your tongue, I can’t think.”