A gentle retelling for listeners ages 3–5 of Aesop’s fable from The Aesop for Children (1919): a Dog who cannot eat hay will not let the tired, hungry Cattle eat it either, until the farmer drives him out of the stable.
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On a farm there was a stable, and in the stable stood a manger. A manger is a wooden box that holds hay for animals to eat. A Dog lay fast asleep in the soft hay.
Out in the field, the Cattle had worked hard all day long. Cattle are cows and big, strong oxen. Now they were tired, and they were very hungry.
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