Being plagued with Mosquitoes one day,
Said old Fox, "pray don't send them away,
For a hungrier swarm
Would work me more harm;
I had rather the full ones should stay."
There Were Politicians In Æsop's Time
The Fox & The Mosquitoes
Walter Crane
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