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# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Bald Man and the Fly

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THE BALD MAN AND THE FLY
A FLY settled on the head of a Bald Man and bit him. In his eagerness to kill it, he hit himself a smart slap. But the Fly escaped, and said to him in derision, “You tried to kill me for just one little bite; what will you do to yourself now, for the heavy smack you have just given yourself?” “Oh, for that blow I bear no grudge,” he replied, “for I never intended myself any harm; but as for you, you contemptible ​insect, who live by sucking human blood, I’d have borne a good deal more than that for the satisfaction of dashing the life out of you!”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Bat, the Bramble, and the Seagull

THE BAT, THE BRAMBLE, AND THE SEAGULL
A BAT, a Bramble, and a Seagull went into partnership and determined to go on a trading voyage together. The Bat borrowed a sum of money for his venture; the Bramble laid in a stock of clothes of various kinds; and the Seagull took a quantity of lead: and so they set out. By and by a great storm came on, and their boat with all the cargo went to the bottom, but the three travellers managed to reach land. Ever since then the Seagull flies to and fro over the sea, and every now and then dives below the surface, looking for the lead he’s lost; while the Bat is so afraid of meeting his ​creditors that he hides away by day and only comes out at night to feed; and the Bramble catches hold of the clothes of every one who passes by, hoping some day to recognise and recover the lost garments.
All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Bald Huntsman

THE BALD HUNTSMAN
A MAN who had lost all his hair took to wearing a wig, and one day he went out hunting. It was blowing rather hard at the time, and he hadn’t gone far before a gust of wind caught his hat and carried it off, and his wig too, much to the amusement of the hunt. But he quite entered into the joke, and said, “Ah, well! the hair that wig is made of didn’t stick to the head on which it grew; so it’s no wonder it won’t stick to mine.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and the Lap-dog

THE ASS AND THE LAP-DOG
THERE was once a man who had an Ass and a Lap-dog. The Ass was housed in the stable with plenty of oats and hay to eat and was as well off as an ass could be. The little Dog was made a great pet of by his master, who fondled him and often let him lie in his lap; and if he went out to dinner, he would bring back a tit-bit or two to give him when he ran to meet him on his return. The Ass had, it is true, a good deal of work to do, carting or grinding the corn, or carrying the burdens of the farm: and ere long he became very jealous, contrasting his own life of labour with the ease and idleness of the Lap-dog. At last one day he broke his halter, and frisking into the house just as his master sat down to dinner, ​he pranced and capered about, mimicking the frolics of the little favourite, upsetting the table and smashing the crockery with his clumsy efforts. Not content with that, he even tried to jump on his master’s lap, as he had so often seen the dog allowed to do. At that the servants, seeing the danger their master was in, belaboured the silly Ass with sticks and cudgels, and drove him back to his stable half dead with his beating. “Alas!” he cried, “all this I have brought on myself. Why could I not be satisfied with my natural and honourable position, without wishing to imitate the ridiculous antics of that useless little Lap-dog?”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Astronomer

THE ASTRONOMER
THERE was once an Astronomer whose habit it was to go out at night and observe the stars. One night, as he was walking about outside the town gates, gazing up absorbed into the sky and not looking where he was going, he fell into a dry well. As he lay there groaning, some one passing by heard him, and, coming to the edge of the well, looked down and, on learning what had happened, said, “If you really mean to say that you were looking so hard at the sky that you didn’t even see where your feet were carrying you along the ground, it appears to me that you deserve all you’ve got.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and the Mule

THE ASS AND THE MULE
A CERTAIN man who had an Ass and a Mule loaded them both up one day and set out upon a journey. So long as the road was fairly level, the Ass got on very well: but by and by they came to a place among the hills where the road was very rough and steep, and the Ass was at his last gasp. So he begged the Mule to relieve him of a part of his load: but the Mule refused. At last, from sheer weariness, the Ass stumbled and fell down a steep place and was killed. The driver was in despair, but he did the best he could: he added the Ass’s load to the Mule’s, and he also flayed the Ass and put his skin on the top of the double load. The Mule could only just manage the extra weight, and, as he staggered painfully along, he said to himself, “I have only got what I deserved: if I had been willing to help the Ass at first, I should not now be carrying his load and his skin into the bargain.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Ass and the Wolf

THE ASS AND THE WOLF
AN Ass was feeding in a meadow, and, catching sight of his enemy the Wolf in the distance, pretended to be very lame and hobbled painfully along. When the Wolf came up, he asked the Ass how he came to be so lame, and the Ass replied that in going through a hedge he had trodden on a thorn, and he begged the Wolf to pull it out with his teeth, “In case,” he said, “when you eat me, it should stick in your throat and hurt you very much.” The Wolf said he would, and told the Ass to lift up his foot, and gave his whole mind to getting out the thorn. But the Ass suddenly let out with his heels and fetched the Wolf a fearful kick in the mouth, breaking his teeth; and then he galloped off at full speed. As soon as he could speak the Wolf growled to himself, “It serves me right: my father taught me to kill, and I ought to have stuck to that trade instead of attempting to cure.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Athenian and the Theban

THE ATHENIAN AND THE THEBAN
AN Athenian and a Theban were on the road together, and passed the time in conversation, as is the way of travellers. After discussing a variety of subjects they began to talk about heroes, a topic that tends to be more fertile than edifying. Each of them was lavish in his praises of the heroes of his own city, until eventually ​the Theban asserted that Hercules was the greatest hero who had ever lived on earth, and now occupied a foremost place among the gods; while the Athenian insisted that Theseus was far superior, for his fortune had been in every way supremely blessed, whereas Hercules had at one time been forced to act as a servant. And he gained his point, for he was a very glib fellow, like all Athenians; so that the Theban, who was no match for him in talking, cried at last in some disgust, “All right, have your way; I only hope that, when our heroes are angry with us, Athens may suffer from the anger of Hercules, and Thebes only from that of Theseus.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Bat and the Weasels

THE BAT AND THE WEASELS
A BAT fell to the ground and was caught by a Weasel, and was just going to be killed and eaten when it begged to be let go. The Weasel said he couldn’t do that because he was an enemy of all birds on principle. “Oh, but,” said the Bat, “I’m not a bird at all: I’m a mouse.” “So you are,” said the Weasel, “now I come to look at you”; and he let it go. Some time after this the Bat was caught in just the same way by another Weasel, and, as before, begged for its life. “No,” said the Weasel, “I never let a mouse go by any chance.” “But I’m not a mouse,” said the Bat; “I’m a bird.” “Why, so you are,” said the Weasel; and he too let the Bat go.
Look and see which way the wind blows before you commit yourself.
# Who is Jesus?/Book 1/Part 2/Chapter 9

IX. HAVE WE PROVED OUR POSITION FROM THE BIBLE? —
I BELIEVE that every one who has faithfully followed our reasoning from the beginning will admit that the Scriptures do indeed appear to show that Jehovah was to come into the world, as already indicated, in the limitations of a man, and that this fulfilment has been realized in Jesus Christ; thus, if God is one, as the Scriptures claim, then Jehovah must be Jesus expressed in the terms of time and space.
In order to accept the fact of the solar system as it really exists, not as it appears, it is not necessary for us to know how the sun and our earth and the other planets are suspended in space, nor what law governs their activities. They are suspended in space; they move and act as we see them. We can demonstrate the facts. We perceive them to be unassailable.
Why did false conceptions concerning the earth and the sun exist for so many thousands of years? Why was the theory of Copernicus rejected for so long after it was demonstrated? ​Simply because the sun appeared to move around the earth. It did not seem reasonable to men who were governed by the apparent facts in the case that the sun was relatively standing still and the earth revolving in space.
We have demonstrated a theory, which we do not claim to be our own, to account for the fact of Jesus Christ. It shows him incontrovertibly, from the documents in the case, as well as from experience, to be God—and if God, then the only God of heaven and earth—Jehovah manifested in the flesh. In doing this we have given a visible sun to our religious solar system, and demonstrated that there is only one such solar center, not three.
Because we do not as yet perceive how Jehovah and Jesus can be the same identical being,—because we cannot as yet understand the manner in which the infinite is finited,—let us not deny the facts. The facts do not depend for their existence upon our understanding of them. We are sure that they are susceptible of rational explanation. If we know anything at all of Jesus, it is from the Bible; if we accept the statements of the Bible, conﬁrmed by experience, he is God. If he is God, he is the only God; there is no God apart from him.
# Who is Jesus?/Book 1/Part 3

PART THREE
THE APPLICATION TO THE STATEMENTS OF JESUS CONCERNING HIMSELF
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Quack Doctor

THE QUACK DOCTOR
A CERTAIN man fell sick and took to his bed. He consulted a number of doctors from time to time, and they all, with one exception, told him that his life was in no immediate danger, but that his illness would probably last a considerable time. The one who took a different view of his case, who was also the last to be consulted, bade him prepare for the worst: “You have not twenty-four hours to live,” said he, “and I fear I can do nothing.” As it turned out, however, he was ​quite wrong; for at the end of a few days the sick man quitted his bed and took a walk abroad, looking, it is true, as pale as a ghost. In the course of his walk he met the Doctor who had prophesied his death. “Dear me,” said the latter, “how do you do? You are fresh from the other world, no doubt. Pray, how are our departed friends getting on there?” “Most comfortably,” replied the other, “for they have drunk the water of oblivion, and have forgotten all the troubles of life. By the way, just before I left, the authorities were making arrangements to prosecute all the doctors, because they won’t let sick men die in the course of nature, but use their arts to keep them alive. They were going to charge you along with the rest, till I assured them that you were no doctor, but a mere impostor.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Rose and the Amaranth

THE ROSE AND THE AMARANTH
A ROSE and an Amaranth blossomed side by side in a garden, and the Amaranth said to her neighbour, “How I envy you your beauty and your sweet scent! No wonder you are such a universal favourite.” But the Rose replied with a shade of sadness in her voice, “Ah, my dear friend, I bloom but for a time: my petals soon wither and fall, and then I die. But your flowers never fade, even if they are cut; for they are everlasting.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Sheep, the Wolf, and the Stag

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THE WOLF,
A STAG once asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, saying that his friend the Wolf would be his surety. The Sheep, however, was afraid that they meant to cheat her; so she excused herself, saying, “The Wolf is in the habit of seizing what he wants and running off with it without paying, and you, too, can run much faster than I. So how shall I be able to come up with either of you when the debt falls due?”
Two blacks do not make a white.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Rivers and the Sea

THE RIVERS AND THE SEA
ONCE upon a time all the Rivers combined to protest against the action of the Sea in making their waters salt. “When we come to you,” said they to the Sea, “we are sweet and drinkable: but when once we have mingled with you, our waters become as briny and unpalatable as your own.” The Sea replied shortly, “Keep away from me and you’ll remain sweet.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Rogue and the Oracle

THE ROGUE AND THE ORACLE
A ROGUE laid a wager that he would prove the Oracle at Delphi to be untrustworthy by procuring from it a false reply to an inquiry by himself. So he went to the temple on the appointed day with a small bird in his hand, which he concealed under the folds of his cloak, and asked whether what he held in his hand were alive or dead. If the Oracle said “dead,” he meant to produce the bird alive: if the reply was “alive,” he intended to wring its neck and show it to be dead. But the Oracle was one too many for him, for the answer he got was this: “Stranger, whether the thing that you hold in your hand be alive or dead is a matter that depends entirely on your own will.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Runaway Slave

THE RUNAWAY SLAVE
A SLAVE, being discontented with his lot, ran away from his master. He was soon missed by the latter, who lost no time in mounting his horse and setting out in pursuit of the fugitive. He presently came up with him, and the Slave, in the hope of avoiding capture, slipped into a treadmill and hid himself there. “Aha,” said his master, “that’s the very place for you, my man!”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The She-Goats and their Beards

THE SHE-GOATS AND THEIR BEARDS
JUPITER granted beards to the She-Goats at their own request, much to the disgust of the he-Goats, who considered this to be an unwarrantable invasion of their rights and dignities. So they sent a deputation to him to protest against his action. He, however, advised them not to raise any objections. “What’s in a tuft of hair?” said he. “Let them have it if they want it. They can never be a match for you in strength.”
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Quack Frog

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THE QUACK FROG
ONCE upon a time a Frog came forth from his home in the marshes and proclaimed to all the world that he was a learned physician, skilled in drugs and able to cure all diseases. Among the crowd was a Fox, who called out, “You a doctor! Why, how can you set up to heal others when you cannot even cure your own lame legs and blotched and wrinkled skin?”
Physician, heal thyself.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Rich Man and the Tanner

THE RICH MAN AND THE TANNER
A RICH MAN took up his residence next door to a Tanner, and found the smell of the tan-yard so extremely unpleasant that he told him he must go. The Tanner delayed his departure, and the Rich Man had to speak to him several times about it; and every time the Tanner said he was making arrangements to move very shortly. This went on for some time, till at last the Rich Man got so used to the smell that he ceased to mind it, and troubled the Tanner with his objections no more.
# Æsop's Fables (V. S. Vernon-Jones)/The Serpent and the Eagle

THE SERPENT AND THE EAGLE
AN Eagle swooped down upon a Serpent and seized it in his talons with the intention of carrying it off and devouring it. But the Serpent was too quick for him and had its coils round him in a moment; and then ​there ensued a life-and-death struggle between the two. A countryman, who was a witness of the encounter, came to the assistance of the Eagle, and succeeded in freeing him from the Serpent and enabling him to escape. In revenge the Serpent spat some of his poison into the man’s drinking-horn. Heated with his exertions, the man was about to slake his thirst with a draught from the horn, when the Eagle knocked it out of his hand, and spilled its contents upon the ground.
One good turn deserves another.
# Women of distinction/Chapter 71

CHAPTER LXXI.
MRS. RACHEL M. WASHINGTON.
This is one of the many ladies of whom Boston may well be proud. Graduating from the New England Conservatory of Music, she has ever been active as an instructor to the young with whom she came in contact, as well as an earnest searcher after knowledge in the line of her chosen profession. It is said that she has possibly done more to cultivate a love and admiration for music among the prominent citizens of Boston than any other one person.
The following lines are taken from a letter written by her to a friend:
As I read the lives of the great composers, and think of their sacred devotion to the art dearer to them than their own lives, I feel anxious for the time to come in our history when a child like Mozart shall be born with soul full of bright melodies; or a Beethoven, with his depth and tenderness of feeling; or a Handel, lifting us above this earth until ​we shall hear the multitude of voices joining in one vast song—"Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth" Nor is this impossible. Our history, it seems to me, has but just begun. All the past is but sorrow and gloom, and here and there a bright ray to bid us hope. * * * I hope they (the colored youth of the country) will early develop a love and taste for the beautiful in musical art; that soon we shall be proud to mention those whose names, through their works, shall be immortal.
This extract is sufficient proof of her strong, active mind and soul full of love for her race and the beautiful in musical art.
# Women of distinction/Chapter 79

CHAPTER LXXIX.
MISS ANNA HOLLAND JONES.
The subject of this narrative has been fortunate as to heredity and opportunities. Her father and five uncles were graduated from Oberlin College in the '40's and '50's, when colored graduates were few. In those early days they were designated by Henry Highland Garnet as "the most educated colored family in America." She was born in Canada, and at an early day was sent to Oberlin. She graduated from the Oberlin High School, and later graduated also from Oberlin College in 1875. She was ​one of the youngest in a class of sixty students, among whom there was only one colored member beside herself. During her college course she rarely stood second to any in scholarship, and in her junior year was elected class essayist. After graduation she was made assistant principal of the Wilberforce Institute in Chatham, Canada. Severity of climate led her to seek employment in the States. She was appointed to a position in the city schools of Indianapolis, and afterwards in the schools of St. Louis. In these she taught with success and acceptance. She later accepted a position as head of the normal department and instructor in Latin and geography in Lincoln Institute, Jefferson City, Mo., where she labored for four years. In 1885 she accepted the position she now holds as lady-principal and instructor in the English language, literature and history in Wilberforce University. Though teaching especially these branches, she has been called upon at times to teach zoology, logic, German and elocution. The long time which she has been engaged in teaching, the branches she has taught and the length of time she has held important positions in one of our best schools, Wilberforce University, is sufficient evidence of her worth and success as a teacher. She regards her work in the classroom, in stimulating young men and women to take a high stand and live a pure and useful life, as of far more importance than a mere training in books for the sake of intellectual development alone. She regards it a mistake to seek mental development at the neglect of the moral and practical side of the student. Upon one ​occasion she said, "He is not a true teacher who is not both a true friend and teacher." Her class-room is said to be more characterized by enthusiasm and zeal than by military order. She is yet a hard student, working as hard as she ever did in college. She has written some articles and sketches for magazines and periodicals, but writing almost entirely under a nom de plune. The whole tenor of facts relative to her life and works present a clear proof not only of the ability and ambition of this rising star of the West, but a forcible setting forth of her good traits of character as an educator. She is a scholar, a profound teacher, a race lover, a Christian lady, struggling hard to make practical leaders for an oppressed people.
# Wilkinson v. Leland

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United States Supreme Court
27 U.S. 627
Wilkinson v. Leland

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# Wilkinson v. United States

Wilkinson v. United States was a court case during the McCarthy Era in which the petitioner, Frank Wilkinson, an administrator with the Los Angeles Public Housing Authority, challenged his conviction under 2 U.S.C. § 192, which makes it a misdemeanor to refuse to answer any question pertinent to the question under inquiry for any person summoned as a witness by Congress. The petitioner's conviction was sustained in a 5-4 ruling, upholding a prior ruling in Barenblatt v. United States. Warning: template has been deprecated.

## Dissenting Opinions

    Black
    Douglas
    Brennan
United States Supreme Court
365 U.S. 399
Wilkinson v. United States
Argued: Nov. 17, 1960. --- Decided: Feb 27, 1961
See 365 U.S. 890, 81 S.Ct. 1024.
Mr. Rowland Watts, Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.
Mr. Kevin T. Maroney, Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice STEWART delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Wilkinson v. Nebraska

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United States Supreme Court
123 U.S. 286
Wilkinson v. Nebraska
J. M. Woolworth, for the motion.
A. J. Poppleton and J. M. Thurston, in opposition.
WAITE, C. J.

## Notes

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