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Aesop’s Fables

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-107-The Ass, the Cock, and the LionAN ASS and a Cock were in a straw-yard together when a Lion, desperate fromhunger, approached the spot. He was about to spring upon the Ass, when the Cock (to thesound of whose voice the Lion, it is said, has a singular aversion) crowed loudly, and theLion fled away as fast as he could. The Ass, observing his trepidation at the merecrowing of a Cock summoned courage to attack him, and galloped after him for thatpurpose. He had run no long distance, when the Lion, turning about, seized him and torehim to pieces. False confidence often leads into danger.

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