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The Ass In The Lion's Skin.

    By Jean de La Fontaine



    An Ass in The Lion's skin arrayed
    Made everybody fear.
    And this was queer,
    Because he was himself afraid.
    Yet everywhere he strayed
    The people ran like deer.

    Ah, ah! He is betrayed:
    No lion has that long and hairy ears.

    Old Martin spied the tip; and country folk
    Who are not in the secret of the joke,
    With open mouths and eyes
    Stare at old Martin's prize -
    A Lion led to mill, with neck in yoke.



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