The Raccoon (told 1891)

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Mrs. Wilson’s True Tales Retold


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(corresponding to “Fabulous Masked Man”) From Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act II, Scene I:THIRD FISHERMAN.... Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.FIRST FISHERMAN.Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours them all at a mouthful. such whales have I heard on o’ the land, who never leave gaping till they they’ve swallowed the whole parish, church, steeple, bells, and all.PERICLES. [Aside]A pretty moral.