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Title
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The Lazy Lion and the Clever Fox: An Aesop Fable
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Seven Fables from Aesop
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GEP6
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Description
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Retold by Philip and Patricia Spensley
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Creator
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Spensley, Philip
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Contributor
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Gray, John
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Date
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2017-05-15T20:33:58Z
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2015-08
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1972
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Date Available
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2017-05-15T20:33:58Z
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Date Issued
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1972
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Abstract
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This version of the story has, as the title indicates, a lazy lion rather than an old lion. The lion asks a dog to be a messenger who will tell the animals to visit him. The fox objects immediately, and when other animals say that a sick lion cannot catch them, he answers, "I don't know about that." In this version, the fox goes along with the other animals but stays outside the lion's den. Does the story not lose something of its appeal when the fox sees not just footprints but victims who no longer come out of the den? When the lion gets up to greet the animals, the dog asks how he can get up so fast if he is sick. "Just seeing you has made me better." When they want to go, he asks them to stay for dinner: "For MY dinner!" After eating them all, he invites the fox to come in. "Where are the animals?" "Why don't you come in and see them?" The fox asks the lion to send out just one of the other animals. The lion answers after a time that none of the animals wants to come out. "I don't think any of them CAN come out" answers the fox. Simple two-color illustrations.
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Identifier
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11140 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Gage Educational Publishing Ltd.
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Vancouver, Canada
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Subject
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PZ8.2.S67Sev 1972 v.6
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One story
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole