A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth."I was once a princess," said she, "the daughter of a King of Athens, but my husband used me cruelly, and cut out my tongue for a slight fault.Then, to protect me from further injury, I was turned by Juno into a bird.""You chatter quite enough as it is," said the Crow."What you would have been like if you hadn't lost your tongue, I can't think."
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A Swallow was once boasting to a Crow about her birth."I was once a princess," said she, "the daughter of a King of Athens, but my husband used me cruelly, and cut out my tongue for a slight fault.Then, to protect me from further injury, I was turned by Juno into a bird.""You chatter quite enough as it is," said the Crow."What you would have been like if you hadn't lost your tongue, I can't think."
