THE OLD DOG.

  
 

} HERE was once a man who had a dog.
While the dog was young he was
made much of, but when he grew old
he was driven out of doors. So he
went.and lay outside the fence, and

a wolf came up to him and said: “ Doggy, why
so down in the mouth ?’—‘ While I was young,”
said the dog, “they made much of me; but now
that I am old they beat me.” The wolf said: “I
see thy master in the field; go after him, and
perchance he'll give thee something.”—‘ Nay,” said
the dog, “they won’t even let me walk about the
fields now, they only beat me.”—“ Look now,” said
the wolf, “I’m sorry, and will make things better
for thee. Thy mistress, I see, has put her child
down beneath that wagon. I'll seize it, and make
off with it. Run thou after me and bark, and
though thou hast no teeth left, touzle me as much as
thou canst, so that thy mistress may see it.”