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THE SPARROW AND THE CROW
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Though I really don‘t know
What the Sparrow can mean,
For I’m sure, as Crows go,
I'm remarkably clean!’

But the Pond said, ‘Certainly I will give you water; but first you must go to the Deer, and beg him to lend you a horn. Then with it you can dig a nice little rill for the water to flow in clean and fresh.’

So the crow flew to the Deer, and said—

‘Your name, sir, is Deer,
But my name is Crow
Oh, give me a horn, please,
For if you do so
I can dig a clean rill
For the water to fill ;
Then I'll wash beak and feet
And the nice khichri eat;
Though I really don't know
What the Sparrow can mean,
For I’m sure, as Crows go,
I’m remarkably clean!'

But the Deer said, ‘Certainly I will give you a horn; but first you must go to the Cow, and ask her