2 FAVOURITE FABLES.

fill of it; do, pray, come down, my dear, and have a taste of
it.”” With that, in plumped the Goat as he bade him; but
as soon as he was down, the Fox jumped on his horns, and
leaped out of the well in a trice; and as he went off, “‘ Good
bye, my wise friend,’’ said he; “if you had as much brains
as you have beard, I should have been in the well still, and
you might have stood on the brink of it to laugh at me, as I
now do at you.”

MORAL.

A rogue will give up the best friend he has to get out of
a scrape; so that we ought to know what a man is, that we
may judge how far we may trust to what he says.

FABLE II.
THE FROG AND THE OX.

An old Frog, being wonderfully struck with the size and
majesty of an Ox that was grazing in the marshes, was
seized with the desire to expand herself to the same portly
magnitude. After puffing and swelling for some time,
‘What think you,” said she, to her young ones, ‘will this
dor”. “Far from it,” said they.“ Wiletnis ? By: 10