The Farmer and the Stork – English Fairy Tale

The Farmer and the Stork - Learn English with fairy tales from Aesop's Fables with a podcast and vocabulary practice Source: Gutenberg Project at www.gutenberg.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5X7IkOipNM A farmer placed nets on his newly-sown plowed lands and caught a number of cranes, which came to pick up his seed. With them he trapped a stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the farmer to spare his life. “Pray save me, master,” he said, “and let me go free this once. My broken limb should excite your pity. Besides, I am no crane, I am a ...