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Show TODAY IN MISIW j SLIGHTLY JAZZED ) : j jjgm.im - ' ii mi. in n irrmi j In the sixth century before the ' Christian era Aesop flourished and fell. Like many a good man. ho overreached himself when temptation come along and ran afoul of the primitive prim-itive lav that says: "It is not safe I to steal less than a million at a time I and then you'd better pick on the j government." i Aesop was once a poor boy. As a j matter of fact, he was worse than that. He was the slave of a poor man. However, after a while, Aesop's master gave him his liberty to save expenses. Acaop put on a three-day colobration that still is regarded with awo In Samons. Greece, where red marks still may be observed showing faintly on sovcral public buildings. Finally, however, Aesop was run out of town. He went to Delphi and set himself up hi the nature-faker business. busi-ness. His accounts of the doings of lions, mice, tigers, jackals and the like attracted much attention then and still are In print. After awhile they sent for him to come to Athens and tell a I few animal stories and he got into politics. |