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The Fox and the Mask
Three hundred Aesop’s fables Translated by George Fyler Townsend · Aesop
A FOX entered the house of an actor and, rummaging through all his properties, came upon a Mask, an admirable imitation of a human head. He placed his paws on it and said, “What a beautiful head! Yet it is of no value, as it entirely lacks brains.”