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The Ass in the Lion’s Skin

By Æsop (c. 620–560 B.C.)

AN ASS, finding the skin of a Lion, put it on; and, going into the woods and pastures, threw all the flocks and herds into a terrible consternation. At last, meeting his owner, he would have frightened him also; but the good man, seeing his long ears stick out, presently knew him, and with a good cudgel made him sensible that, notwithstanding his being dressed in a Lion’s skin, he was really no more than an Ass.

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