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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).

*ducking and running for cover*

Date: 2010-05-27 12:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gormflaith.livejournal.com
"No good deed goes unpunished is Rule #285 in the Ferengi Rules of
Acquisition: Unabridged and Fully Annotated. With all 47 Commentaries,
all 900 Major and Minor Judgments, all 10,000 Considered Opinions
http://www.stinsv.com/DSn/roa.htm

Re: *ducking and running for cover*

Date: 2010-05-27 12:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ppfuf.livejournal.com
Once upon a time, there was a smart-aleck apprentice....

Re: *ducking and running for cover*

Date: 2010-05-27 12:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gormflaith.livejournal.com
Help! I've got a search box and I can't stop using it....

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