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Baby's Own Aesop (1887)

18. The Fox and The Mosquitoes (Perry 427)

Being plagued with Mosquitoes
Said old Fox, "Pray don't send them away,
For a hungrier swarm
Would work me more harm;
I had rather the full ones should stay."

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