Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Moon and Her Mother

3880245Æsop's Fables: A New Translation — The Moon and Her MotherVernon S. Vernon JonesAesop

THE MOON AND HER MOTHER

THE Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. “How can I?” replied she; “there’s no fitting your figure. At one time you’re a New Moon, and at another you’re a Full Moon; and between whiles you’re neither one nor the other.”

THE MOON AND HER MOTHER