Jesop's Farables: snow and cold

 Jesop’s Farables 

Jesop

“snow and cold”

In late March, somewhere in the borderless expanse that is now northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia, Snow was bragging to a reindeer that he had grown so tall he would soon exceed the beast in height. Cold, who didn’t like Snow because he covered the beauty of the frozen ground and who could not bear boastfulness, overheard and said to himself, “Surely, it is time to leave here for the South.” He did. Snow began to shrink. Before long he was no higher than the deer’s ankles.

06.22.17

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 * Jesop’s Farables (online reproduction of the 1887 edition) are available here.