Cheerful Cock

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    "For once, the Cheerful Cock was sad, and he made out a list of all the complaints he had to make, and he wrote them down on paper. Putting on his best spurs, off he went to the Fox’s den. On the den door was a sign, “Gone for a walk by the garden wall.”",
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    "Just as he was through his story of wrongs, the pious-looking monk (for it was no other than the Funny Fox) made a spring at him, and the Cheerful Cock had just time to fly over the garden wall!",
    "He had thought the monk handsome in his fine clothes, but now he called back, “Handsome is as handsome does.”",
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