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Excerpt from Fables for the Young Folks I shall not ask J. J. Rousseau If birds confabulate, or no 'tis clear that they were always able To hold discourse, at least in fable And e'en the child, that knows no better Than to interpret by the letter A story of a cock or bull. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.