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The Fox & the Grapes


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NE hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch. "Just the thing to quench my thirst" quoth he. Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch. Turning round again with a One, Two,