Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Dog's House

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 154

THE DOG'S HOUSE.

A Dog, in the winter time, rolled together and coiled up in as small a space as possible on account of the cold, determined to make himself a house. When the summer returned again he lay asleep, stretched at his full length, and appeared to himself to be of a great size, and considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.