144 FAVOURITE FABLES.

‘Well, then, at once to ease the doubt,”
Replies the man, ‘Ill turn him out;
And when before your eyes I’ve set him,
If you don’t find him black I’ll eat him ;”’
He said. Then full before their sight,
Produced the beast, and lo! ’twas white.
Both stared, the man looked wondrous wise.
‘My children,’ the Chameleon cries,
(Then first the creature found a tongue),
‘You all are right and all are wrong;
When next you talk of what you view,
Think others see as well as you;

Nor wonder, if you find that none
Prefers your eye-sight to his own.”

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FABLE CV.

THE WOLF, THE FOX, AND THE ASS.

Tue Lion, as king of the beasts, made a law that no
beast should, without lawful cause, do any hurt to another;
and should come once a year to court, to confess, and be
absolved or punished, according to his deserts. Now it
happened that the Wolf and the Fox were going thither