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they did not. They thought of themselves,
and of what was useful, and of what the forest
was for. They had always heard that the
acorns they ate grew on the roots of the trees,
and therefore they had always rooted there; but
now there came a little one – for it is always the
young ones that come with news – and he
asserted that the acorns fell down from the
branches: he himself had felt one fall right
on his head, and that had given him the idea,
so he had made observations, and now he was
quite sure of what he asserted. The old ones
laid their heads together. "Uff," said the swine,
"uff! the finery is past! the twittering of the
birds is past! we will have fruit! whatever
can be eaten is good, and we eat everything!"
"Oui! oui!" said they altogether.
But the mother sow looked at her little pig
with the curly tail.
"One must not, however, forget the beautiful!"
said she.
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