The Ass In The Lion’s Skin – Jean De La Fontaine Fables

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An Ass in The Lion’s skin arrayed
Made everybody fear.

And this was queer,
Because he was himself afraid.
Yet everywhere he strayed
The people ran like deer.
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Ah, ah! He is betrayed:
No lion has that long and hairy ears.

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No lion has that long and hairy ear!
Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk
Who are not in the secret of the joke,
With open mouths and eyes
Stare at old Martin’s prize–
A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.
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Fables in Rhyme for Little Folks
Adapted from the French of La Fontaine.
Written by, W. T. Larned
Illustrated by, John Rae.
New York, July 1918.

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