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A short story by Henry Wallace Phillips |
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The Ass in the Lion's Skin |
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Title: The Ass in the Lion's Skin Author: Henry Wallace Phillips [More Titles by Phillips] An ass, by some means unknown to the writer, having managed to get into a lion's skin, ran around the neighborhood frightening the beasts into fits. When he brayed, they said: "Jupiter! what a magnificent bass voice he has!" and he was the pantata of that district until he died of old age.
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