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LESSON 34 The fox and the stork
第三十四課 狐貍和鸛
A fox asked a stork to dinner, with the naughty purpose of playing a trick on his guest.
狐貍請鸛共進晚餐，因為他想戲弄他的客人。
The stork came at the hour fixed, with a good appetite for her meal. But little pleased was she on finding that it consisted of mince, served up in a dish so shallow that she could scarcely, with her long slender bill, pick up enough to satisfy a sparrow! The fox lapped up the food readily enough, only stopping a moment to say, "I hope, madam, that you like your feast? Don't you think that my mince is first-rate?"
鸛按時赴約，準備好吃大餐。但是她很快就不高興了，因為她發現盤子里只有碎肉，她的長喙根本吃不到，而且連只麻雀都喂不飽！狐貍貪婪地吃著盤里的肉，只停下來說了一句，“希望你喜歡這段大餐，難道不覺得我做的碎肉是一流的嗎？”
The stork made no reply, but retired, hungry and much displeased, from the almost untasted meal.
鸛沒答話，但是她又累又餓，很不高興。這一切都是因為這頓飯。
A few days afterwards the stork returned the compliment by asking the fox to dinner.
幾天后，鸛也請狐貍去吃晚餐。
Reynard hastened to the place of meeting, where the stork had made ready her meal. Great was the disgust of the fox to behold the food served up in a long-necked jar, which let in the stork's slender bill, but into which he could not thrust even his pointed nose!
狐貍很快到了約定的地方，鸛已經準備好了食物。食物呈在一個長頸瓶里，只有鸛的尖尖的喙能伸進去，狐貍卻連自己尖尖的鼻子都塞不進去。
"I hope, sir, that you like your feast?" said the stork, who was not generous enough to return good for evil, and who wished to give Reynard a lesson. And as the hungry fox looked sadly up into her face, she added, "Those who cannot take a joke in good part should never make one. Never do to others, what you would not like them to do to yourself."
“我希望你喜歡這頓飯。”，鸛說道。鸛做不到以德報怨，她想給狐貍一個教訓。狐貍很哀怨地抬頭看了她一眼，她接著說道：“不能開善意得玩笑就不要開。己所不欲，勿施于人。”
