74 FAVOURITE FABLES.

Let history tell
How your old father fell ;
And see if the narrative sounds as well.
Your folly surpasses,
Of monkeys all classes ;
The beasts which he frightened, or conquered, were asses,
Except a few sheep,
When the shepherd, asleep,
The dog by his side for safety did keep.
Your father fell back,
Knocked down by a whack
From the very first bull that he dared to attack.
Away he’d have scoured,
But soon overpowered,
He lived like a thief, and he died like a coward.”’

Soren (Jee

PABLEE LV.
THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS.

In former days, when the Belly and the other parts of the
body enjoyed the faculty of speech, and had separate views
and designs of their own; each part, it seems, in particular,
for himself, and in the name of the whole, took exception at