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Three Hundred Æsop's Fables/The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep

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Three Hundred Aesop's Fables (1867)
by Æsop, illustrated by Harrison Weir, translated by George Fyler Townsend
The Stag, the Wolf, and the Sheep

London: George Routledge and Sons, page 121

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THE STAG, THE WOLF, AND THE SHEEP.

A Stag asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, fearing some fraud was intended, excused herself, saying, "The Wolf is accustomed to seize what he wants, and to run off; and you, too, can quickly outstrip me in your rapid flight. How then shall I be able to find you, when the day of payment comes?"

Two blacks do not make one white.