THE WASPS. IOI

Cur. “ Bow, wow!”

Bdel. “Silence in the court! Cur, go up into the
box and state the charge.”

Slave (as representing Cur, the prosecutor). “ Gen-
tlemen of this honourable court, you have heard the
charge that I bring against the accused. I say that
he played a most scandalous trick on me and my
fellows. He ran off into a corner by himself, and
gorged himself with the cheese.”

Phil. “He is manifestly guilty. The rascal smells
of cheese most vilely.”?

Slave. “Yes; he devoured it, and would not give
a morsel to me when I asked him. Mark this, he
gave nothing to me, your favourite, Tear ’em.”

Phil. “What! nothing to you? and nothing to me,
either!”

Bdel. “My dear father, for heaven’s wake don’t
decide the case before you have heard both sides!”

Phil. “Why not, my boy? The thing is quite
plain. It speaks for itself.”

Slave. “Don’t let him off. There never was such
a keeping-all-to-himself dog. And, as you know, one
bush is not big enough for two thieves.” ?

1 Philocleon, it will be seen, manifests the most violent prejudice
against the accused. This is doubtless a reflection on the want of a
judicial temper among the citizen judges.

2 An adaptation, it seems, of a proverb that “ one bush never holds
two robins.” The pugnacious character of the robin redbreast and
his intolerance of all intruders seem to have been known to the Greeks
as they have been observed among us. :