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Aesop Then and Now

The Cat & the Rat


The Fox & the Crab
A rat lived in a small house in
A Crab one day grew Manhattan for all his life. In the
disgusted with the sands in past years, he grew to dislike the
which he lived. He decided city due to the noise in the streets
to take a stroll to the and the pollution. One day while
meadow not far inland. buying groceries, the rat
There he would find better overheard a couple discussing
fare than briny water and their trip from the countryside
sand mites. So off he down south. They talked about its
crawled to the meadow. tranquility and the elegant visible
But there a hungry Fox stars. Shortly after, he packed his
spied him, and in a belongings and decided to set out
twinkling, ate him up, both south. Along the way, he
shell and claw. encountered an infamous cat
burglar. The ambitious rat did not
want to lose everything so he
fought back, but lost. He died.
Aesop Then and Now

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