90 ARIST OPHANES,

go into the fish-market and _buy a bass, and don’t,
buy pilchards.. Immediately the fellow: who is sell-
ing pilchards grumbles, ‘A man who- ‘buys. ‘fish in.
this way must be thinking of being a tyrant.’ Or,
again, I want a leek as sauce to .my anchovies.
What does the girl that sells pot-herbs do but say,
‘Ah! you buy pot-leeks. You would be a tyrant,
I see.’ Now this is the sort of thing that I want
to get my father away from; and as soon as I try,
then immediately I am an aristocrat, a tyrant.”

Phil. “ And quite right, too! Do you think that
I would change those beloved courts for anything
that you could give me? No, not for all the
pigeon’s milk in the world. Skates indeed, and.
eels! No; give mea nice little plea dished up with
petitoager s sauce.’
_ Bdel. “Yes; that’s the thing you have been so
fond of all your life. Still, I. think I can convince
you that you. have been wrong, if you will only sit
still and listen.”

Phil, “ Wrong, do- you say? I wrong to like sit-
ting on juries?”
_ Bdel. “Yes; and scorned and mocked and
cheated by the men you mornp — a slave without
knowing it.”

Phil. “Youcallmea slave? Why, Iam jon of all. 2

. Bdel. “ Not you; you think that you are, but you
are really a servant. Tell me now, father, what
good you get out of your lordship.”