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The Fox and the Stork visit each other.
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The Fox and the Stork
A fox serves food in a way the stork cannot eat, and the stork later returns the trick.
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The fox's shallow dish
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They seem to be good friends.
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The Fox asks the Stork to come for dinner.
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He wants to play a joke on her.
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He gives her only soup.
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The soup is in a low, flat dish.
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The Fox can lick up the soup.
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But the Stork has a long beak.
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Only the end of her beak can touch the soup.
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She cannot eat.
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She is still hungry.
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The Fox says he is sorry.
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He says she does not like the soup.
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The Stork tells him not to say sorry.
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Then she asks him to come to her home for dinner.
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They choose a day.
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