One hot summer's day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes just ripening on a vine which had been trained over a lofty branch.
一个炎热的夏日，一只狐狸在果园里散步，突然他看到高处一根修剪过的葡萄藤上挂着一串刚刚成熟的葡萄。
"Just the thing to quench my thirst," quoth he.
“解渴就靠这个了”，他这么说着。
Drawing back a few paces, he took a run and a jump, and just missed the bunch.
退了几步之后，他往前又跑又跳的，可惜没够到那串葡萄。
Turning round again with a One, Two, Three, he jumped up, but with no greater success.
往后再退了几步，一、二、三，往上一跳，还是没有够到那串葡萄。
Again and again he tried after the tempting morsel, but at last had to give it up, and walked away with his nose in the air, saying: "I am sure they are sour."
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