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When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.”

A SHEPHERD once found the whelp of a Wolf and brought it up, and after a while taught it to steal lambs from the neighboring flocks.

A MILLER and his son were driving their Ass to a neighboring fair to sell him.

An old oak, lamenting when too late the destruction of his companions, said to a neighboring cedar, “The first step has lost us all.