Russian Fable
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Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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The Squirrel And The Thrush
A CROWD collected in a village, one holiday, under the windows of the seignorial mansion, looking, with open-mouthed wonder, at a Squirrel in a revolving cage. A Thrush also was wondering at it, perched on a neighbouring birch tree. The Squirrel ran so fast that his feet seemed to twinkle, and its bushy tail spread itself straight out.
” Dear old compatriot,” asked the Thrush, “can you tell me what you are doing there ? ”
” Oh, dear friend, I have to work hard all day. I am, in fact, the courier of a great noble. So that I can never stop to eat, nor to drink, nor even to take breath ; ” and the Squirrel betook itself anew to running round in its wheel.
” Yes,” said the Thrush, as it flew away, ” I can see plainly enough that you are running ; but, for all that, you are always there at the same window.”
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Look at some busybody or other. He worries himself ; he rushes to and fro; every one wonders at him. It seems as if he were going to jump out of his skin ; only, in spite of all that, he does not make any more progress than the Squirrel in the wheel.
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Russian Literature – Children Books – Russian Poetry – Ivan. A. Krylov – Contents
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