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The owl flapped its wings again, muttering these words:

"The owl hasn't given us any advice, as yet," the boy declared.

The Foolish Owl must be foolish or she wouldn't be the Foolish Owl.

They said good-bye to the Wise Donkey and the Foolish Owl and at once resumed their journey.

So, for years, the Owls slept their happy sleep by day, and found their comfortable meal when darkness fell.

The constitution of the summer-house had lasted until the spring of the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight, when the unhallowed footsteps of innovation passed that way; and the venerable privileges of the Owls were assailed, for the first time, from the world outside.

And the Owls said, "Have we honored the summer-house by occupying it all these years--and is the horrid light of noonday to be let in on us at last?

The Owls shrieked as they flapped along the lanes in the darkness, And that night they struck at a mouse--and missed him.

And when the world saw it, and said, "Now we shall do!" the Owls shut their eyes in pious remembrance of the darkness, and answered, "My lords and gentlemen, the Constitution is destroyed!"