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69 the doubting ducks A FOX HAD HIS EYES on a flock of ducks, but at his approach they would back away from him, ready to take flight if he came nearer. "What have I done? Why do you mistrust me so?" he asked in a hurt voice. "It's because you're so strange," they said, "so different from ourselves." The next day when the ducks came to the pond, they saw the fox quacking and swimming about. "What are you doing on the shore when the water is so fine today?" he called out loudly. The ducks, still a little suspicious, watched the fox at his antics, but when he upended himself as well as the best of them, dived down among the reeds, and caught a frog, their last doubts vanished. "The fox is like ourselves ," they said. "There's no danger in him at all." [ 135 ] ...

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