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Aesop’s Fables

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-230-The Wasps, the Partridges, and the FarmerTHE WASPS and the Partridges, overcome with thirst, came to a Farmer and besoughthim to give them some water to drink. They promised amply to repay him the favorwhich they asked. The Partridges declared that they would dig around his vines and makethem produce finer grapes. The Wasps said that they would keep guard and drive offthieves with their stings. But the Farmer interrupted them, saying: "I have already twooxen, who, without making any promises, do all these things. It is surely better for me togive the water to them than to you."

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