id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 6438 Carryl, Guy Wetmore Fables for the Frivolous .txt text/plain 5990 674 93 THE RUDE RAT AND THE UNOSTENTATIOUS OYSTER The fox replied, with fine disdain, For the way the lady said it "Look alive!" the eagle said; Grow things like that upon a vine, "If pumpkins fell from trees like that," She said, "and of practical use, The town rat murmured, "The feast is ended." And said some things that were quite profane. The kind that people send, you know, "Of course," said the oak, "in my sapling days The shrewd little bulrush answered, "Friend, "My friend," said the wolf, with a winsome air, "My capers," he cried, "are the kind that are He said one brief, emphatic word, THE MORAL is: A fox is bound This fish had a way that would win him a place The fisherman said, "You will tire out your tongue. And THE MORAL, you'll find, is although it is kind THE MORAL: When your dinner comes ./cache/6438.txt ./txt/6438.txt