{"id":16778,"date":"2014-04-19T12:07:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nurseryrhymesonline.net\/997\/the-farmer-and-the-cranes\/"},"modified":"2014-04-19T12:07:22","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T19:07:22","slug":"the-farmer-and-the-cranes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.surfnetkids.com\/early\/16778\/the-farmer-and-the-cranes","title":{"rendered":"The Farmer and the Cranes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Cranes made their feeding grounds on some plough-lands newly sown with wheat. For a long time the Farmer, brandishing an empty sling, chased them away by the terror he inspired; but when the birds found that the sling was only swung in the air, they ceased to take any notice of it, and would not move. The farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number. 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