80 FAVOURITE FABLES.

MORAL.

Boastful cowards may impose upon those who do not
know them, but are held to be only ridiculous by those who
do. Pompous persons who would wish themselves thought
perfect Lions, when known are mostly found arrant Asses.

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BABLE LIX.
THE WOLF IN SHEEP’S CLOTHING.

A Wotr clothing himself in the skin of a Sheep, and
getting in among the flock, by this means took the oppor-
tunity to devour many of them. At last, the Shepherd
discovered him, and cunningly fastened a rope about his
neck, tying him up to a tree which stood hard by.

Some other Shepherds happening to pass that way, and
observing what he was about, drew near, and expressed their
wonder at it. ‘‘ What,” says one of them, ‘‘ Brother, do
you hang Sheep?”” “* No,” xeplics the other, aiwmane a
Wolf whenever I catch him, though in the habit and garb of
Sheep.” Then he showed them their mistake, and they
applauded the justice of the execution. |

MORAL.

Those who try to seem what they are not will not always
thereby escape the punishment of what they are. |