DisplayImage("text", "treadwell_first_zpage049", "
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StoryTitle("caps", "The Boy and the Fox") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A boy saw a fox asleep on a hillside.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boy picked up a stone and said,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2DQ", "", "\"I will kill this fox.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Then I shall sell the fur", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "and get some money.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "I shall buy rye with the money,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L4", "", "and I shall sow the rye", "") ?>
PoemLine("L6", "", "in my father's field.", "") ?>
PagePoem(50, "L0", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The people will pass by the field.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "They will see my rye and they will say,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'What fine rye that boy has.'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I shall say to them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Keep out of my rye field.'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But they will not obey.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I shall call to them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Keep out of my rye field.'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But still they will not obey.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then I shall shout to them,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2SQ", "", "'Keep out of my rye field.'", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And then they will obey me.\"", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The boy called so loud", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " that the fox awoke.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The fox sprang to his feet,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " and away he went to the woods.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "So the boy did not get even a hair", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", " from the tail of the fox.", "") ?>
PoemAttribution("85", "— Swedish Folk Tale") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>