Aesop's Fables Edited by Charles Stikeney.

 

THE SWALLOW AND THE CROW

THE Swallow and the Crow were once con- tending about  their plumage.    The  Crow finally  put  an  end  to the dispute by saying, "Your feathers are well  enough  now while it is  warm,  but  mine protect  me  against  the winter."