Flattered Out of His Cheese

This is very, very hard to read but still interesting.

From, A Latin Reader, by Frank Gallup, published 1913:

Corvus, qui alicunde caseum rapuerat, in altam arborem subvolavit. Vulpecula, quae caseum appetebat, corvum ita adloquitur: "Formam tuam magnopere laudo et pennarum tuarum nitorem. Pol! si cantus tuus pulchritudini tuae respondet, rex avium es." Tum corvus, laudibus vulpeculae inflatus, cantare conatus est. Sed e rostro aperto delapsus est caseus, quem vulpecula statim devoravit. Verba adulatorum sunt preti parvi, ut haec fabula docet.

Vocabulary:

1. Corvus, i: a raven.

2. Alicunde: from some place or other or some source or other.

3. Caseum: cheese..

4. Magnopere: greatly.

5. Conatus, us: attempt.

6. Sed: but, however.

7. Statim: immediately.

8. Devoro: devour. 

9. Penna, ae: feathers, wings. 

Notes from the book:

1. "Pol!" means, "By Pollux!"

2. "Vulpes, pis" means "fox", but "vulpecula" means "little fox".