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1621
The Greeks, the Governor and the Potatoes Clay Lane

John Kapodistrias had an instinct for how a long-oppressed people might think.

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1622
The Hare and Many Friends John Gay

John Gay reflects that in matters of friendship, quality is preferable to quantity.

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1623
The Hare and the Tortoise Clay Lane

One had natural talent but no discipline, the other had discipline but no natural talent.

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1624
The Hare Who was Afraid of his Ears J.B. Rundell

After the Lion cracks down on horns right across his kingdom, a nervous Hare gets to wondering exactly what counts as a horn.

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1625
The Harmonious Blacksmith Clay Lane

Handel called it ‘Air and Variations’, but by Charles Dickens’s day everyone knew it as ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’.

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1626
The Harrowing of Hell William Langland

Will Langland tells how after the crucifixion, the soul of Christ went down to Hades to fetch Piers the Ploughman and the rest of hopeless humanity.

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