Russian Fable
Krylov and his fables
Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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The Cuckoo And The Cock
” HOW proudly and sonorously you sing, my dear Cock!”
” But you, dear Cuckoo, my light, how smoothly flows your long-drawn-out note ! There is no such singer in all the rest of our forest.”
” To you, my dear gossip, I could listen for ever.”
” And as for you, my beauty, I swear that, when you are silent, I scarcely know how to wait till you begin again. Where do you get such a voice from ? — so clear, so soft, and so high ! But no doubt you were always like that ; not very large in stature, but in song — a regular nightingale.”
” Thanks, gossip. As for you, I declare, on my conscience, you sing better than the birds in the garden of Eden. For a proof of this, I appeal to public opinion.”
At this moment a Sparrow, which had overheard their conversation, said to them,
” You may go on praising one another till you are hoarse, my friends ; but your music is utterly worthless.”
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Why was it that, not being afraid to sin, the Cuckoo praised the Cock? Simply because the Cock praised the Cuckoo.
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Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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