Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Dogs and the Hides

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London: George Routledge and Sons, page 167


THE DOGS AND THE HIDES.

Some Dogs, famished with hunger, saw some cowhides steeping in a river. Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river: but it fell out that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides.

Attempt not impossibilities.