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My google-fu is weak today. I cannot find a Dutch(?) folktale. One of the trencher prints refers to a fable I can't remember and can't find. The British Museum says this group is from Aesop, but I can't find it the collections I've checked (The hedgehog and the rabbit; a trencher copied from Gheeraerts's illustrations to Aesop). Can anybody give me a summary of the tale with a moral someting like: 
 
The cunny help the hedgehogs dovt | the hedgehoge keeps the cvnny out | Wher by it may be notet | Will gave som a inch theyll tak a nell

The bunny helps the hedgehogs out | The hedgehog keeps the bunny out | Where by it may be noted, | Will give some a inch, they will take a yard.

The picture is a unrealistically large hedgehog guarding the entrance of it's burrow from a crouching rabbit (or maybe a hare).

Date: 2010-05-26 10:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com
It might be Dutch, I'm not sure. I know I can't find it in English version of Aesop, and the orginal source for these engravings was a Dutch collection of fables.

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