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The Eagle and the Fox. An Eagle and a Fox formed an intimate friendship, and decided to livenear each other. The Eagle built her nest in a tall tree, while the Foxcrept into the underwood and there produced her young. Not long after,when the Fox was ranging for food, the Eagle, being in want of provisionfor her young ones, swooped down and seized upon one of the little cubs,and feasted herself and brood. The Fox on her return, discovering whathad happened, was less grieved for the death of her young than for herinability to avenge them. A just retribution, however, quickly fell uponthe Eagle. While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers weresacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of flesh, and carriedwith it to her nest a burning cinder. A strong breeze soon fanned thespark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, wereroasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.The Fox gobbled them up in the sight of the Eagle. The tyrant is never safe from those whom he oppresses. From Aesop's Fables

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Fun Fact

68 percent of a Hostess Twinkie is air!

Quotable Quote/Tongue Twister

If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot To talk ere the tot could totter, Ought the Hottenton tot Be taught to say aught, or naught, Or what ought to be taught her? If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot Be taught by her Hottentot tutor, Ought the tutor get hot If the Hottentot tot Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?

Joke and Laugh

A little boy walked down the aisle at a wedding. As he made his way to the front, he would take two steps, then stop, and turn to the crowd, alternating between the bride's side and the groom's side. While facing the crowd, he would put his hands up like claws and roar. And so it went-step, step, ROAR, step, step, ROAR-all the way down the aisle. As you can imagine, the crowd was near tears from laughing so hard by the time he reached the pulpit. The little boy, however, was getting more and more distressed from all the laughing, and he was near tears by the time he reached the pulpit. When asked what he was doing, the child sniffed back his tears and said, "I was being the ring bear."