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SPANISH FABLES
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I am not blind, I know what kind
Of Dogs were at my tail."
"Why, but for your fright, no doubt you might
Have known with half an eye."
"I tell you, zounds, that they're all Greyhounds,
As much as you or I."
While words ran high, the Dogs came nigh
And nigher in pursuit.
Till unaware, they fell on the pair,
And settled the dispute.
Some authors discuss a question thus,
And like this foolish pair.
Expose their life in wordy strife
On trifles light as air.
(Iriarte, Literary Fables. Translated for Blackwood's Magazine.)
THE FROG AND THE FROGLING
FROM their dwelling in a bog.
Cried a Frogling to a Frog:
"Mother, see on yonder banks,
How the canes, in even ranks.
Lift their leafy heads on high.
Till they seem to touch the sky.
Tell me, have you ever seen
