afleep kindly owing folly effects conduct fortune fhoulder School-boy tired with play, threw A himself down by the brink of a deep pit, where he fell faft afleep. Fortune paffing by, faw him in danger of falling in, and kindly gave him a tap on the fhoulder; My dear child, faid fhe, if you had fallen into this pit, I fhould have borne the blame, though in fact, it would have been wholly owing to your own folly. The MORAL. We are always ready to cenfure fortune for the ill effects of our own conduct. began fpeaking befeech other gather children unjust people's OME fchool-boys playing by the SOM fide of a pond, fpied three frogs peeping out of it; upon this they began to gather ftones, and fell to pelting them without mercy; upon which, one of the frogs fpeaking to the boys, faid: thus: "My dear children, think what you are about; why will you learn fo foon the cruel practice of your race: Let me remind you, I befeech you,, that tho' this be sport to you, 'tis death to us.. The MORAL. It is unjust and cruel to raife ourselves mirth, at the expence of other people's peace. Burry embrace often honour creatures wished A DOG once on courfing the banks of the Nile, grew thirsty, but fearing to be feized by fome of the monsters. of that river, would not ftop to quench his thirst, but lapped as he ran. One of them raifing his head above the furface of the water, afked him,. why he was in fuch a hurry, for he had often wished to fee him, and would be glad to embrace him. You. do me great honour, faid the dog, but it is to avoid fuch creatures as you, that I am in so much haste. The MORAL. We are always in danger of being led aftray when we converse with people who have not good morals.. feafting themfelves banquet without condemn fcruple AWOLF, fays Plutarch, peeping in to a hut where a number of fhepherds were feafting themfelves with a joint of mutton; Mercy upon us, faid the wolf, what a clamour would thefe men have raised, if they had catched. me feafting on fuch a banquet. The MORAL. How apt are men to condemn in others, what they practise themfelves, without the leaft fcruple |