StoryTitle("caps", "The Fox and His Shadow. ") ?> InitialWords(0, "A fox,", "smallcaps", "nodropcap", "noindent") ?> falling over a great part of the meadow. So said he to himself, "I must really be much bigger than I seem to be: certainly bigger than the elephant!"
So, seeing an elephant pass by, he said, "You can't boast of your huge figure any more: behold, how big I am! there is my shadow to prove it!"
"If you were wise," said the elephant, "you would speak to my shadow."
Page(55) ?> The fox saw the shadow of the elephant stretching far beyond the meadow. He said, "Alas! as one grows, so one's shadow."