66 FAVOURITE FABLES.

FABLE “XLIX:

THE KID AND THE WOLF.

A Kip, being mounted upon the roof of a lofty shed, and
seeing a Wolf below, loaded him with all manner of re-
proaches. Upon which, the Wolf, looking up, replied, ‘‘ Do
not vaunt yourself, vain creature, and think you mortify me;
for I look upon this ill language as not coming from you,
but from the place that protects you.”’

MORAL.

To rail or give bad language is wrong at all times; but
when a man is protected by circumstances, it is cowardly, as
well as wrong. The man who then uses it becomes a fit
object of contempt to him that he reviles.

 

 

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FABLE cL,
THE COUNCIL OF HORSES.

Upon a time, a neighing Steed,

Who grazed among a numerous breed,
With mutiny had fired the tram, 2

And spread dissension through the plain.