HORSE. Boy! Boy!
WOLF. Stop your calling! You will have them all at me with clubs.
HORSE. Neighbors! Neighbors!
[_Enter the_ MASTER, MAID, BOY, _and_ NEIGHBORS _with clubs. They
surround the Wolf._]
MASTER. Aha! I have caught you at last!
WOLF (_to horse_). This is the thanks I get for showing you--
HORSE. Something you did not want yourself. I owe you nothing, sir.
THE WISE CROW
TIME: _last summer._
PLACE: _a meadow._
* * * * *
THE CROW.
THE SPARROW.
* * * * *
[_The_ CROW _and the_ SPARROW _meet at a spring._]
SPARROW. Ah me, the spring is dry!
CROW. All the springs are dry!
SPARROW. There may be water in the brook.
CROW. No, the brook is dry.
SPARROW. What shall we do?
CROW. There may be water in this pitcher. I will see. Aha! Here is
water! Come and drink.
SPARROW. I cannot reach it. It is too low.
CROW. Stretch your neck!
SPARROW. I stretch and stretch--I cannot reach it.
CROW. Why, neither can I! Stretch as I will, I cannot reach it.
SPARROW. What shall we do?
CROW. We will break the pitcher. Come, now!
SPARROW. I strike and strike.
CROW. I strike and strike.
SPARROW. We cannot break it.
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