10 FAVOURITE FABLES.

towards him, said, ‘I did not think you had been so un-
reasonable! Have I not suffered you safely to draw your
neck out of my jaws? And have you the conscience to
demand a further reward ?”’

MORAL.

When we do good to bad men, we must not expect good
from them.

FABLE IX.
THE FROG AND THE RAT.

Once on a time, a foolish Frog,

Vain, proud, and stupid as a log,

Tired with the marsh, her native home,
Imprudently abroad would roam,

And fix her habitation where

She’d breathe at least a purer air.

She was resolved to change, that’s poz;
Could she be worse than where she was ?

Away the silly creature leaps.
A Rat, who saw her lab’ring steps,
Cried out, ‘‘ Where in this hurry, pray ?

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You certainly will go astray