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# Krilof and His Fables/The Nobleman and the Philosopher

The Nobleman and the Philosopher.
A Nobleman chatting with a Sage during an idle hour about one thing and the other, said,
"Tell me, you who thoroughly know the world, and read the hearts of people like a book, how is it that, whenever we lay the foundation of an assembly or a learned society, we scarcely have time to take a look around us, before the blockheads manage to worm themselves in among the first comers? Is it possible that absolutely no remedy exists against them?"
"I think not," replied the Sage. "The fate of learned societies is the same, between ourselves, as that of houses made of wood."
"How so?"
"Why, this way. I have just now finished building one for myself. Its proprietors have not yet moved into it, but the crickets have ever so long ago taken up their quarters in it."
# Krilof and His Fables/The Dog

The Dog.
A Gentleman had a dog that was given to thieving. And yet there was nothing it stood in need of. Any other dog in such a kind of life would have been happy and contented, and would never have dreamt of stealing. But this one had such a mania for it that whenever it got hold of a piece of meat it instantly bolted with it.
In spite of all the pains his master gave himself, he could not get on with it, until at last a friend interfered and helped him with this piece of advice:
"Listen," he said. "Athough you are severe, it seems, yet you only accustom your dog to steal, inasmuch as you always let him keep his stolen morsel. But suppose you beat him less in future, only take away from him what he has stolen."
Scarcely had the dog experienced the effect of this wise counsel when—the dog gave up stealing.
[This fable, like that of "The Bear among the Bees," refers to the corruption which used to be so prevalent in Russian official circles. In the dog of the one story and the bear of the other, individual functionaries of evil repute were in all probability represented, but their real names are unknown.]
# Krilof and His Fables/The Starling

The Starling.
A certain Starling learnt, in early life, to sing as like a goldfinch as if it had been born a goldfinch itself. The whole forest was enlivened by its sportive little lay, and the dear Starling was the theme of universal praise.
Any other bird would have been content with such honours. But our Starling heard the nightingale being praised, Our Starling, to its sorrow, became jealous.
"Just wait a little, my friends," it thinks; "I will sing in the nightingale's style too, and every bit as well."
And it really did begin singing, only it was in a style quite different from anything else. It squeaked, it growled, it whimpered like a kid, and, without the least reason for doing so, mewed like a kitten. To be brief, its singing made all the other birds take to flight.
Well, my dear Starling! what have you gained by that? Better sing a goldfinch's song well, than a nightingale's badly.
# Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973

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Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973
No. 100 of 1973
AN ACT
To abolish Capital Punishment under the Laws of the Commonwealth and under certain other Laws in relation to which the Powers of the Parliament extend.
[Assented to 18 September 1973]
BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title 1. This Act may be cited as the Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973.
Commencement. 2. This Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
Application of Act. 3. (1) This Act applies within and outside Australia and extends to all the Territories.
(2) Subject to sub-section (3), this Act applies in relation to, and in relation to offences under, the laws of the Commonwealth and of the Territories, and, to the extent to which the powers of the Parliament permit, in relation to, and in relation to offences under, Imperial Acts.
(3) This Act does not apply in relation to, or in relation to offences under, the laws in force in the Territory of Papua or the Territory of New Guinea, other than Acts of the Parliament, or Imperial Acts, as extending to either or both of those Territories of their own force.
​(4) This Act applies in relation to offences committed before, on or after the date of commencement of this Act, including offences in respect of which proceedings are pending at that date, and if, on that date, a person is under sentence of death for an offence in relation to which this Act applies, the sentence has effect as if it were a sentence of imprisonment for life.
Abolition of death penalty. 4. A person is not liable to the punishment of death for any offence.
Substitution of imprisonment for life. 5. Where by any law in relation to which this Act applies (including a provision that would, but for this Act, have effect by virtue of such a law) it is provided that a person is liable to the punishment of death, the reference to the punishment of death shall be read, construed and applied as if the penalty of imprisonment for life were substituted for that punishment.
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# Royal Style and Titles Act 1973

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Royal Style and Titles Act 1973
No. 114 of 1973
AN ACT
Relating to the Royal Style and Titles.
[Reserved for Her Majesty's pleasure, 14 September 1973] [Queen's Assent, 19 October 1973] [Queen's Assent proclaimed, 19 October 1973]
WHEREAS, in accordance with the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953, Her Majesty, by Proclamation dated 28th May, 1953, adopted, as the Royal Style and Titles to be used in relation to the Commonwealth of Australia and its Territories, the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to that Act:
And whereas the Government of Australia considers it desirable to propose to Her Majesty a change in the form of the Royal Style and Titles to be used in relation to Australia and its Territories:
And whereas the proposed new Style and Titles, being the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to this Act, retains the common element referred to in the preamble to the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953:
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—
Short title. 1. This Act may be cited as the Royal Style and Titles Act 1973.
​Assent to adoption of new Royal Style and Titles in relation to Australia. 2. (1) The assent of the Parliament is hereby given to the adoption by Her Majesty, for use in relation to Australia and its Territories, in lieu of the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to the Royal Style and Titles Act 1953, of the Style and Titles set forth in the Schedule to this Act, and Australia to the issue for that purpose by Her Majesty of Her Royal Proclamation under such seal as Her Majesty by Warrant appoints.
(2) The Proclamation referred to in sub-section (1) shall be published in the Gazette and shall have effect on the date upon which it is so published.
Royal Style and Titles
Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God Queen of Australia and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth.
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# Krilof and His Fables/The Lamb

The Lamb.
A Lamb, which from sheer folly had donned a wolf's skin, went to the sheep-fold, there to strut about in it. The Lamb wanted merely to show itself off a little, but the dogs which saw the foolish animal thought that a wolf had broken in from the forest. In they leaped, rushed at it, knocked it off its feet, and tore it almost to pieces before it could collect its scattered wits. Luckily the shepherds recognized it and rescued it.
But it is no joke to be even for a time exposed to the teeth of dogs. After such a fright as this the poor creature could scarcely drag itself to the sheep-fold, and after it had got there its strength began to desert it, so that before long it became a perfect wreck, moaning away without cessation for the rest of its life.
But if the Lamb had been wise, it would have been afraid of becoming, even in fancy, like unto a wolf.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Peasant and the Snake/2

The Peasant and the Snake.
A Snake once glided up to a Peasant, and said, "Neighbour, let us take to living on friendly terms. You need not be on your guard against me any longer. You can see for yourself that I have changed my skin this spring, and that I have become quite a different creature from what I was."
But the Snake did not convince the Peasant. The Peasant seized a cudgel, and cried,
"Though you've got a new skin, yet your heart is just the same as of old."
And the neighbour's life was straightway knocked out of her.
# Anzac Day Act 1995 (Australia)

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Anzac Day Act 1995
No. 21, 1995
An Act to declare Anzac Day, on 25 April, to be the national day of commemoration to recognise and commemorate the contribution of all those who have served Australia (including those who died) in time of war and in war‑like conflicts
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Anzac Day Act 1995
No. 21, 1995
An Act to declare Anzac Day, on 25 April, to be the national day of commemoration to recognise and commemorate the contribution of all those who have served Australia (including those who died) in time of war and in war‑like conflicts
[Assented to 29 March 1995]
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Anzac Day Act 1995.
​2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Observance of Anzac Day as the national day of commemoration
The national day of commemoration to recognise and commemorate the contribution of all those who have served Australia (including those who died) in time of war and in war‑like conflicts is to be known as Anzac Day and observed on 25 April each year.
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# Krilof and His Fables/The Peasant and the Snake/3

The Peasant and the Snake.
A Peasant and a Snake became bosom friends. It is well known that snakes are clever, and this one had so crept into the Peasant's good graces, that he swore by it, and by nothing else. From that time forward, of all his former friends and relatives, not one would stir a foot towards him.
"But why," says the Peasant, reproachfully, "why have you all forsaken me? Is it that my wife hasn't known how to receive you? or have you become tired of what I have to offer you?"
"No," replied his gossip Matvei. "We'd come and see you with pleasure, neighbour; and you've never—not a word can be said against that—never once vexed or angered us in anything. But just tell me, what pleasure can one find in your house if, while one 's sitting there, one can think of nothing but looking out that that friend of yours doesn't crawl up and sting some one?"
# Krilof and His Fables/The Ass and the Peasant

The Ass and the Peasant.
A Peasant, who had hired an Ass for his garden during the summer, set it to drive away the impudent race of crows and of sparrows. The Ass was one of a most honest character, utterly unacquainted with either rapacity or theft. It never profited by a single leaf belonging to its master, and it would indeed be a sin to say that it connived at the proceedings of the birds. Still the Peasant got but little good out of his garden. The Ass, as it chased the birds with all its might, galloped across all the beds, backwards and forwards, in such a manner that it trod underfoot and trampled in pieces everything that grew in the garden.
Seeing then that all his pains were thrown away, the Peasant took a cudgel and revenged himself for his loss on the back of the Ass. "No wonder!" says every one; "serve the beast right! Was it for a creature of its parts to under­ take such a business?"
But I say—though not with the intention of defending the Ass; it was certainly in fault, and it has already paid the penalty—surely he also was to blame who set the Ass to guard his garden.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Stone and the Worm

The Stone and the Worm.
"What a fuss every one is making! How wanting in manners!" observed, with respect to a shower, a Stone which lay in a field. "Have the kindness to look. Every one is delighted with it. They have longed for it as if it were the best of guests; but what is it that it has done? It has come for a couple of hours or so—no more. But they should make a few inquiries about me. Why I have lain here for centuries. Modest and unassuming, I lie quietly where I am thrown. And yet I have never heard from a single person so much as a 'Thank you!' It is not without reason that the world gets reviled. I cannot see a grain of justice anywhere in it."
"Hold your tongue!" exclaimed a Worm. "This shower, brief as it has been, has abundantly watered the fields, which were being rendered sterile by the drought, and has revived the hopes of the farmer. But you contribute nothing to the ground but a useless weight."
Thus many a man will boast of having served the state for forty years; but as for being useful, he has never been a bit more so than the Stone.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Titmouse

The Titmouse.
A Titmouse made assault upon the sea, boasting that it would burn the sea up. Immediately there went abroad through all the world much talk about that. Fear seized upon the inhabitants of Neptune's metropolis. The birds flew in troops, and the beasts ran down together from the forests, to see in what manner the ocean would take fire, and whether it would burn furiously. It is even said, on the authority of the feathered tribe, that the human haunters of festal tables were among the first to appear on the shore, all provided with spoons, so as to enjoy so rich a fish soup as not even the most liberal of contractors had ever given to Government officials.
They swarm around. Each one marvels at the prodigy beforehand, and, in utter silence, fixing his eyes upon the sea, awaits the result. Only at times will one of them whisper, "There, it is going to boil! Look! it will begin to burn in a minute!"
Not a bit of it! the sea does not burn. But at all events doesn't it boil? It does not even boil. Well, then, how did these stupendous projects end? Why, the Titmouse had to fly away home in disgrace. The Titmouse had made a noise in the world, but it had not set the sea on fire.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Lion

The Lion.
When the Lion became old and weak, his hard bed began to annoy him. It made his very bones ache; besides, it did not warm him. So he summons his nobles to his side, long-haired and shaggy wolves and bears, and says,
"Friends, to old bones like mine, my bed has now become intolerably hard. So find out some way, without oppressing either the poor or the rich, to collect fleeces for me, that I may not have to sleep on the bare stones."
"Most illustrious Lion!" answer the grandees, "who would think of grudging you his skin, not to speak of his fleece? And are there but few shaggy beasts among us here? As to stags, hinds, chamois, and goats, they scarcely pay any tri­bute at all. We will take their fleeces from them at once. They will not be any the worse for that; on the contrary, indeed, they will be all the lighter for it."
This very wise advice was immediately carried out. The Lion could not sufficiently praise the zeal of his friends. But in what had they shown themselves zealous? Only in this, that they caught the poor creatures, and sent them away completely shorn. But they themselves, though they were twice as hirsute, did not contribute so much as a single hair of their own; on the contrary, each of them who happened to be on the spot turned that tribute to good account, and provided himself with a mattress for the winter.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Gnat and the Shepherd

The Gnat and the Shepherd.
Having confided his sheep to the care of his dogs, a Shepherd went to sleep in tire shade. Remarking that, a snake glided towards him from under the bushes, brandishing its forked tongue. The Shepherd would have passed away from the world, had not a Gnat taken pity on him, and stung him with all its might. Roused from his slumber, the Shepherd killed the snake. But first, while half awake and half asleep, he hit the Gnat such a slap that the poor thing was utterly done for.
There is no lack of examples of this. If the weak, even with the best intentions, try to open the eyes of the strong, you may expect that they will meet with the same fate as the Gnat.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Peasant and the Horse

The Peasant and the Horse.
A Peasant was sowing oats one day. Seeing that, a young Horse began to reason about it, grumbling to itself.
"A pretty piece of work this, for which he brings such a lot of oats here! And yet they say men are wiser than we are. Can anything possibly be more foolish or ridiculous than to plough up a whole field like this, in order to scatter one's oats over it afterwards to no purpose? Had he given them to me, or to the bay here, or had he even thought fit to fling them to the fowls, it would have all been more like business. Or even if he had hoarded them up, I should have recognised avarice in that. But to fling them uselessly away! No; that is sheer stupidity."
Meanwhile time passed; and in the autumn the oats were garnered, and the Peasant fed this very Horse on them.
Reader, there can be no doubt that you do not approve of the Horse's opinions. But. from the oldest times to our own days, has not man been equally audacious in criticising the designs of Providence, although, in his blind folly, he sees nothing of its means or ends?
# Krilof and His Fables/The Squirrel and the Thrush

The Squirrel and the Thrush.
A crowd collected in a village, one holiday, under the windows of the seignorial mansion, looking, with open-mouthed wonder, at a Squirrel in a revolving cage. A Thrush also was wondering at it, perched on a neighbouring birch tree. The Squirrel ran so fast that his feet seemed to twinkle, and its bushy tail spread itself straight out.
"Dear old compatriot," asked the Thrush, "can you tell me what you are doing there?"
"Oh, dear friend, I have to work hard all day. I am, in fact, the courier of a great noble. So that I can never stop to eat, nor to drink, nor even to take breath;" and the Squirrel betook itself anew to running round in its wheel.
"Yes," said the Thrush, as it flew away, "I can see plainly enough that you are running; but, for all that, you are always there at the same window."
Look at some busybody or other. He worries himself; he rushes to and fro; every one wonders at him. It seems as if he were going to jump out of his skin; only, in spite of all that, he does not make any more progress than the Squirrel in the wheel.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Kite

The Kite.
A Kite, which had been allowed to soar to the clouds, called out from on high to a Butterfly down below in the valley,
"I can assure you that I can scarcely make you out. Confess now that you feel envious when you watch my so lofty flight."
"Envious? No, indeed! You have no business to think so much of yourself. You fly high, it is true; but you are always tied by a string. Such a life, my friend, is very far removed from happiness. But I, though in truth but little exalted, fly wherever I wish. I should not like all my life long to have to conduce to some one else's foolish amuse­ment."
# Krilof and His Fables/The Sheep and the Dogs

The Sheep and the Dogs.
In a certain flock of Sheep, it was resolved that the number of dogs should be increased, in order that the wolves might worry no more. What was the result ? Why, the number increased so greatly that at last, truly enough, the Sheep were no longer annoyed by the wolves. But dogs, too, must live. So, first, they deprived the Sheep of their fleeces, and then they tore their skins off them, choosing them by lot. At last, only five or six of the Sheep remained, and those also the dogs ate up.
[In former days, whenever there was a difficulty about setting straight anything that had gone wrong in Russia, the only idea which suggested itself to the minds of the autho­rities was to increase the number of those officials who had to deal with the matter. But as these officials were miserably paid, they had to make a livelihood out of the people who were confided to their charge, and who, accordingly, fared no better than the sheep in the fable. Latterly, a different system has been introduced, and fewer but better paid officials are now employed.]
# Krilof and His Fables/The Peasant and the Fox/2

The Peasant and the Fox.
Said a Fox to a Peasant, one day:
"Tell me, my dear gossip, what has the horse done to deserve such friendship at your hands, that, as I see, he is always by your side? You keep him in plenty and well cared for. When journeying, you go along with him, and with him you constantly go afield. And yet, of all animals, he surely is all but the stupidest!"
"Ah, gossip!" replied the Peasant, "this isn't a question of wisdom: all that 's mere stuff. That isn't at all what I go in for. What I want is that he should carry me and obey the whip."