In this manner a little township sprang up.
The man said, "_The further we seek to go from the world and its
cares, the more they multiply_!"
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THE SEA, THE FOX, AND THE WOLF
A fox that lived by the seashore once met a wolf that had never seen
the sea. The wolf said, "What is the sea?"
"It is a great piece of water by my dwelling," said the fox.
"Is it under your control?" asked the wolf.
"Certainly," said the fox.
"Will you show me the sea, then?" said the wolf.
"With pleasure," said the fox. So the fox led the wolf to the sea, and
said to the waves, "Now go back,"--they went back. "Now come up,"--and
they came up! Then the fox said to the waves, "My friend, the wolf,
has come to see you, so you will come up and go back till I bid you
stop;" and the wolf saw, with wonder, the waves coming up and going
back.
He said to the fox, "May I go into the sea?"
"As far as you like. Don't be afraid, for, at a word, the sea would go
or come as I bid, and as you have already seen."
The wolf believed the fox, and followed the waves rather far from the
shore. A great wave soon upset him, and threw up his carcass on the
shore.
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