Excerpt: ...bluster fail. 139 THE TWO POTS. Forc'd on a stream to make their way, To pot of brass says pot of clay: "Since brass is stout and clay is frail, Pray let us at a distance sail. Not your intention that I fear Sir Brass," adds humble Earthenware, "While the winds leave you to yourself; But woe betide my ribs of delf, 140 If it should dash our sides together; For mine would be the damage, whether Their force should you or I impel; To pray proceed, and fare you well." Learn hence, ye folks of low estate, To keep due ...
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Excerpt: ...bluster fail. 139 THE TWO POTS. Forc'd on a stream to make their way, To pot of brass says pot of clay: "Since brass is stout and clay is frail, Pray let us at a distance sail. Not your intention that I fear Sir Brass," adds humble Earthenware, "While the winds leave you to yourself; But woe betide my ribs of delf, 140 If it should dash our sides together; For mine would be the damage, whether Their force should you or I impel; To pray proceed, and fare you well." Learn hence, ye folks of low estate, To keep due distance from the great. 141 HERCULES AND THE CARTER. His cart bemired, a carter pray'd To Hercules to come and aid. "Up!" says the God, "thou lazy dog. And lift the axle from the bog; Think'st thou Gods nothing have to do But listen to such knaves as you?" 142 THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER. From a wise emmet, well sustain'd On what her industry had gain'd, A grasshopper some aid desir'd. "What was his trade?" the ant inquir'd. "I've none," the grasshopper replied; "I range the country far and wide, Singing all day from door to door, And have no time to form a store." Shutting her granaries, says the ant, "No wonder, friend, you are in want; 143 He who all summer sings, may chance In winter to be forc'd to dance." To spend his time in idle song, The thoughtless grasshopper was wrong; And not to give a small supply, The emmet mean and niggardly. 144 THE CROW AND THE PITCHER. Patience and ingenuity The want of natural means supply. A thirsty crow some water found, But in a vessel so profound, That with her neck at utmost stretch, A single drop she could not reach. Then stones she in the pitcher places, Which to the top the water raises; And by this innocent device Her thirst at leisure satisfies. 145 THE ANGLER AND THE LITTLE FISH. An angler a small salmon caught, Who with much earnestness besought That he would let her go: says she, "What can you do with such as me! Next year when grown a little bigger, I in your bag might make a figure." The...
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