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him, with a leer, “‘I believe you may have found a con-
veniency in parting with your tail; and when we are in the
same circumstances, perhaps we may do so too.”

MORAL.

It is common for men to wish others reduced to their own

level, and we ought to guard against such advice as may
proceed from this principle.

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FABLE VII.

THE BUTTERFLY AND THE SNAIL.
As in the sunshine of the morn,
A Butterfly, but newly born,
Sat proudly perking on a rose,
With pert conceit his bosom glows ;
His wings, all glorious to behold,
Bedropt with azure, jet and gold,
Wide he displays; the spangled dew
Reflects his eyes, and various hue.

His now forgotten friend, a Snail,
Beneath his house, with slimy trail,
Crawls o’er the grass; whom, when he spies,
In wrath he to the gardener cries: