The city
A Crow having taken a Piece of Cheese out of a Cottage-Window, flew up into a high Tree with it, in order to eat it. Which a Fox observing, came and sate underneath, and began to compliment the Crow upon the Subject of her Beauty.
“I protest, says he, I never observ’d it before, but your Feathers are of a more delicate White than any that ever I saw in my Life: Ah! what a fine Shape, and graceful turn of Body is there! And I make no question but you have a tolerable Voice? If it were but as fine as your Complexion, as I hope to live, I don’t know a Bird that could pretend to stand in Competition with you. “
The Crow, ticked with this very civil Language, nestled and riggled about, and hardly knew where she was; but thinking the Fox a little in the dark as to the Particular of her Voice, and having a mind to set him right in that Matter, she begun to sing, for his Information; and, in the same Instant, let the cheese drop out of her Mouth. This being what the Fox wanted, he chop’d it up in a Moment; and trotted away, laughing in his Sleeve, at the easie Credulity of the Crow
(Samuel Croxall, “The Fox and the Crow,” Aesop’s Fables)
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Motto from the end of the post:
“If you please, I should like to have the flower-pot; that is, if you won’t think me very silly, mamma.”
“Why, as to that, I can’t promise you, Rosamond; but when you have to judge for yourself you should choose what would make you happy, and then it would not signify who thought you silly.”— Maria Edgeworth, The Purple Jar
Enjoy!
Mala, today again your photos make me exclaim. They are so different and so interesting. The first one, as I roll down the screen and see the colored rocks, catches my interest, and as I keep going, it keeps getting better. I love the overlays on the boy on the bike and the pregnant girl, then the two little kids way upper left of the frame walking into the strong diagonal, the tipped stroller, and then finally best of all, the ethereal clarity of the horse. Very nice!
Thank you Paul. I really am a lucky one having such a models ahead my eyes and …the idea of the next moving flows together with models. It’s more about my feelings than the knowledge.
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