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The Vine and the Goat

By AESOP

A VINE was luxuriant in the time of vintage with leaves and grapes.

A Goat, passing by, nibbled its young tendrils and its leaves.

The Vine addressed him and said: "Why do you thus injure me without a cause, and crop my leaves? Is there no young grass left? But I shall not have to wait long for my just revenge;

 

for if you now should crop my leaves, and cut me down to my root, I shall provide the wine to pour over you when you are led as a victim to the sacrifice."
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