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King Log and King Stork, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'

Crane, Walter, 1900, Publisher's print
King Log and King Stork, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
King Log and King Stork, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
King Log and King Stork, from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
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Item no
40046
Title
King Log and King Stork, illustrated page from 'Baby's Own Aesop'
Description
A stork, wearing a necklace and crown, stands by the water's edge with a frog in its beak. A crowd of frogs protest, and out in the water a log lies beside lily pads, while Jove looks down on the scene from the sky. A hand holds an open scroll with the following rhyme:
"King Log and King Stork

The frogs prayed to Jove for a king:
"Not a log, but a livelier thing."
Jove sent them a Stork,
Who did royal work,
For he gobbled them up, did their king.

Don't have kings"
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Date
1900
Size
17.8 x 18.8 cm
Location
Art and Design Library
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