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# Krilof and His Fables/The Tree

The Tree.
"Dear friend," cried a young Sapling to a peasant,—whom it saw carrying an axe, "please clear away the forest around me. I cannot grow comfortably, nor can I see the light of the sun; my roots have not space enough, and the breezes are not at liberty to sport around me; such arches has it thought fit to weave above me. If it were not for its impeding my growth I should become the ornament of the neighbourhood in a year, and all the valley would be covered by my shade. But as it is I am thin and frail, al­ most like a withered branch."
The peasant took to his axe and rendered service to the Tree as to a friend. Around the sapling a great space was cleared, but not long did its triumph last! At one time it was parched by the sun, at another it was knocked about by hail or rain, and at last it was snapped in two by the wind.
"Fool!" then said to it a Snake, "have you not brought your misfortune upon yourself? If you had grown up, hidden by the forest, neither heat nor storm would have been able to hurt you. The old trees would have protected you; and if a time had come when their season was past and they ​disappeared, then you, in your turn, would have so flourished, would have become so strongly built and firmly rooted, that your present misfortune would never have happened to you,
and you would, perhaps, have been able to encounter even the hurricane.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Gardener and the Philosopher

The Gardener and the Philosopher.
One spring, a Gardener took to digging away among his beds as vigorously as if he were in hopes of digging up a treasure. A mettlesome workman was the Moujik, and stout and fresh to look at. Before long he had prepared some fifty beds for cucumbers alone.
Next door to him lived an amateur of gardens, both kitchen and flower—a very fine talker, a friend of Nature, as he called himself, a philosopher of the superficial school, one who chatted away about gardens from book-knowledge only.
One day he took it into his head to look after his own garden, and he, too, determined to rear cucumbers, and in the meantime he thus flouted his neighbour:
"Sweat away, neighbour, as much as you like, but my work will leave yours far behind, and by the side of my garden yours will look like a desert. Yes, to tell the truth, I have often been quite astounded at seeing that that miserable little garden of yours gets on at all. How is it you have not been ruined before now? I suppose you have never paid the least attention to science?"
"Never had the time," was the neighbour's answer. "In­dustry, practice, a pair of arms—these are all the sciences I have. But just as they are, God gives me bread with them."
​"Clodhopper! Do you dare to set yourself up against science?"
"No. master; don't go twisting my words askew like that. If you invent anything clever, I'll always be ready to copy you."
"Well, well! we shall see; just let's wait till summer——"
"But, master, isn't this the time for taking the matter in hand? I've already begun sowing and planting, but you haven't even dug over your beds yet."
"Why, no, I haven't done any digging yet for want of leisure. I've been spending all my time in reading, trying to find out from my books whether I should dig the beds with a spade, or whether it would not be better to use one of the two kinds of ploughs, and if so, which of the two? But the season is not going to pass away just yet."
"Not from you, perhaps; but it won't be much inclined to wait for me," said the Gardener, turning away and taking to his spade again.
The Philosopher went home and began reading, making extracts, inquiring, and digging away in his library and in his garden, always at work from morn till eve. Scarcely had he finished one piece of work, hardly had anything come up in the beds, when he would find some fresh discovery in the newspapers. Straightway he would dig up everything, transplant everything, on another plan, to a new tune.
What, then, was the result of all this? Everything the Gardener had sown came up and ripened. His affairs went well, and brought him in profit. But as for the Philosopher—not a single cucumber had he.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Flowers

The Flowers.
At the open window of a sumptuous apartment, arranged in vases of many-coloured porcelain, a number of Artificial Flowers waved proudly on their wire stalks—real flowers standing beside them the while—and exhibited their charms to universal admiration.
But, see! a shower has begun to fall. The taffeta Flowers straightway adjure Jupiter, asking if the rain cannot be stopped, abusing and defaming it in every way.
"O Jupiter," they pray, "do put a stop to this shower! What good is there in it? what on earth can be worse than it is? Why, see! walking in the streets is impossible, for it has turned them into nothing but mud and puddles."
But Jupiter gave no heed to their idle prayer, and the shower had it all its own way, dispelled the great heat, and made the air cool. All nature revived, and the verdure on every side seemed to spring up anew.
Then, among other things, the real flowers in the window expanded in all their beauty, fresher for the rain, softer and more fragrant. But by that time the Artificial Flowers, poor things! had lost all their beauty, and they were thrown into the yard as rubbish.
Real talents are not angry with criticism: it cannot injure their charms.
It is only the false flowers that fear the rain.
# Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book/EF

Elves and Fairies
On summer evenings, after old Mister Sun has sent up his last golden rays to the fleecy clouds and the gentle dusk of evening settles over all, the tiny Fireflies creep up to the tops of the blades of grass, and fly up in the air, flashing their fairy lamps as they greet each other. This is the time when Elves and Fairies, very tiny creatures, come out to have their Elfin dances and Fairy Rings.
And, as you watch the Fireflies with their tiny lanterns flashing in the grasses, you may be certain that the Elves and Fairies are there too, starting out on wonderful adventures. And when Mother kisses you good night and your pretty eyes grow sleepy, then you know the tiny Elves and Fairies are singing songs and dancing around you, to make your dreams ever and ever so pleasant and happy.
* is for Elves, tiny creatures,  so small. Nearly all elves are just two  inches tall.
* is for Fairies, they whisper  advice To all kindly children, and  that’s very nice.
# Krilof and His Fables/The Peasant and the Snake/1

The Peasant and the Snake.
A Snake came and asked a Peasant to take it into his house. Not to live there idly without working—no, it wanted to look after his children. Bread is sweetest when it is earned by labour.
"I know," it says, "what a bad name snakes have got among you men—how they are all supposed to be of the very worst character. From the remotest times rumour has asserted that gratitude is unknown to them, that they know neither friendship nor relationship, and that they devour even their own little ones. All that may be true, but I am not one of that sort. Not only have I never bitten anybody in my life, but I have such a loathing for everything that is hurtful, that I would have had my sting pulled out of me if I could only have been sure that I could live without one. To speak briefly: of all snakes I am the best. Judge, then, how fond I shall be of your children!"
"Even supposing all that isn't all lies," answers the Pea­sant, "yet it's quite impossible for me to take you in. As soon as one specimen of the kind got to be liked among us, a hundred bad snakes would come crawling in after the one good one, and would be the ruin of all our children here.
​Indeed I fancy, my dear creature, that it is impossible for you and me to live on good terms together, for, according to my ideas, the very best of snakes is not good enough for even the devil himself."
Fathers, do you understand what I am thinking about just now?
[After the campaign of 1812, the Vuimorozki, as they were called—the remnants of the Grande Armée—were dis­persed about Russia, and very kindly treated, being made much of at all convivial meetings, and readily accepted as tutors, sometimes as husbands. Against all this Krilof uttered several protests, one of which is embodied in the present fable.]
# Krilof and His Fables/The Travellers and the Dogs

The Travellers and the Dogs.
One evening two friends were walking along, and carry ing on a sensible conversation, when suddenly from the threshold of a gateway a yard-dog began to bark at them. After it began a second, then two or three others, and in another moment half a hundred dogs had run together from all the courtyards. Already was one of the travellers on the point of picking up a stone, when the other one said to him,
"Hold hard, brother! You won't prevent the dogs from barking; you will only provoke the pack all the more. Let's go straight on. I know their nature better."
And, in fact, they had only gone some fifty paces when the dogs gradually began to calm down, and at last they could not be heard at all.
The envious can look at nothing without setting up a howl at it. But you go your own way. They may continue barking for awhile—but they will leave off.
[A recent critic, M. Fleury, has called attention to the ​resemblance between this fable and the following, extracted from the preface to Voltaire's "Alzire": "Un Voyageur était importune dans son chemin du bruit des cigales; il s'arrêta pour les tuer; il n'en vint pas à bout, et ne fit que s'écarter de sa route. Il n'avait qu'a continuer paisible­ment son voyage; les cigales seraient mortes d'elles-mêmes au bout de huit jours."
But Krilof's fable has a wider signification than that oi Voltaire, which refers mainly to literary critics.]
# Krilof and His Fables/The Bee and the Flies

The Bee and the Flies.
Two Flies determined to be off to foreign parts, and tried to entice a Bee to go there with them. They had heard from parrots high praises of distant lands. Be­ sides, it seemed to them abominable that, on their native soil, they should everywhere be excluded from hospitality, nay, that it should even have come to this—(how is it people are not ashamed of such things? and what oddities there are in the world!)—that glass covers should have been invented to keep flies away, and prevent them from profiting by the sweets on sumptuous tables. And as to poor men's houses, why, there they found the spiders a nuisance. "A pleasant journey to you!" replied the Bee to all this. "For my part, I am comfortable even in my own land.
I have succeeded, by means of my honeycomb, in gaining the affections of all, from the villager even to the grandee. But as for you, fly whither it pleases you: you will meet with the same fate everywhere. As you are of no use, my friends, you will nowhere be either honoured or loved. There, as well as here, it will only be the spiders who will be glad to see you."
​He who toils usefully for his Fatherland will not lightly desert it. But a foreign land is always pleasant to one who is destitute of useful qualities. There, as he is not a citizen, he is less despised than at home, and to no one there is his idleness a source of vexation.
# The Terrible Twins

THE TERRIBLE TWINS
BY EDGAR JEPSON
THE TERRIBLE TWINS
“Cats for the cats’ home!” said Sir Maurice Falconer
THE
TERRIBLE TWINS
By EDGAR JEPSON Author of The Admirable Tinker, Pollyooly, ETC.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HANSON BOOTH
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1913 The Bobbs-Merrill Company
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N. Y.
CONTENTS
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1930.
The longest-living author of this work died in 1938, so this work is in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 86 years or less. This work may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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# Krilof and His Fables/The Ear of Corn

The Ear of Corn.
An Ear of Corn which shook in the wind afield—catching sight of a flower which was fondled in comfort and luxury behind the glass of a hothouse, while it was itself exposed to troops of flies, and to heat and cold and storm—in a tone of vexation addressed its master thus:
"How comes it that you men are always so unjust that there is nothing you refuse to one who knows how to please your eye or taste, while you are utterly careless about one who is practically useful to you? Are not your chief profits derived from the corn-field? And yet, only see in what contempt it is held! Since the day when you sowed this piece of ground, have you ever sheltered our blades under glass from bad weather, or given orders that we should be weeded or warmed, or come to water us in a drought?
"No: our growth is left entirely to chance; whereas your flowers, which can neither fatten nor enrich you, are not, like us, left out here in the fields unheeded. They grow up within glass walls, trimly tended in a luxurious retreat. Why, if you had only taken as much pains about us instead, you would certainly have gained a hundredfold in the course of a year, and would have sent to town a whole caravan full of grain! ​Do think the matter over, and build a good big hothouse to hold us."
"Friend," replied the master, "I see that you have not paid attention to my labours. Trust me, my chief care has been for you. If you only knew what pains it cost me to clear away the forest, and to have the ground manured for your benefit! Why, there was no end to my toil! But I have neither time nor inclination to talk now, nor would there be any use in my doing so. As for wind and rain, address your requests to the heavens. But your wise advice to me would, if I had followed it, have left me with neither corn nor flowers."
# The Knickerbocker/Volume 13/Number 5/Woman's Love

Attributed to "From a Bachelor's Scrap-Book". The poem appeared earlier, without a credited author, in the October 11, 1822, issue of the Alexandria Herald newspaper.
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WOMAN'S LOVE.
# Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book/GH

Grasshoppers and Humming Birds
Have you ever watched Tommy Grasshopper jump? Tommy has two very long legs. He gives a kick and up in the air he goes. My! Tommy can jump far for such a weeny fellow. Wouldn't it be lots of fun to jump like that, if there was a nice springy hay stack to light upon? Tommy Grasshopper doesn’t mind though even if he does bump his head, he just gives another kick and tries to jump much farther. So, if anything does not go just as we like, we must do as Tommy Grasshopper does, try again and try much harder. Then, everything turns out ever so much happier.
* is for Grasshoppers—see how  they jump. They never cry when their  heads get a bump.
# Raggedy Ann's Alphabet Book/IJ

Ink and Birds
My! What a lot of trouble little squeeky baby birds are for their mamas and daddies. Little weeny-teeny baby birds are always so very, very hungry. This keeps Mama and Daddy bird very busy all day long.
Then, as the baby birdies grow stronger, Mama and Daddy have to watch, or the baby birdies will fall from the nest.
Baby birdies must wait until they get real for sure feathers instead of soft fuzzy down before they may venture from their tree top homes.
But, when their little wings grow strong enough, Mama and Daddy coax them to venture and with much advice and cheepings, the baby birdies are taught to fly. Then, what fun they have; sailing through the air with Mama and Daddy in search of happy adventures.
* is for Ink used to print in our booksWhen it is colored— how pretty it looks.
# A New and Improved System of Mnemonics

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A NEW AND IMPROVED
System of Mnemonics,
or
TWO HOURS STUDY
in the
ART OF MEMORY.
applied to
Figures, Chronology, Geography, Statistics, History, Systematic Tables, Poetry, Prose,
and to the
COMMON TRANSACTIONS OF LIFE.
rendered familiar to every capacity, and calculated for
The Use of Schools,
as well as for those
Who have attended to Lectures on this Subject.
ILLUSTRATED WITH MANY PLATES.
By G. JACKSON.
Watts.
SECOND EDITION
LONDON:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR
AND SOLD BV T. BOOSEY, 4, OLD BROAD-STREET, ROYAL EXCHANGE, AND BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS.
1817.
Price 4s. in Bds.
Pub.. by G. Jackson, June, 1816.
TO
HENRY JACKSON, ESQ.
SECRETARY TO THE AMERICAN LEGATION,
AND
Charge d'Affaires at the Court of Paris,
THIS WORK IS VERY RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED
BY HIS
Most obedient and affectionate Nephew,
GEORGE JACKSON.
Contents (not listed in original)
* Preface
* Chapter I
* Chapter II
* Chapter III
* Chapter IV
* Chapter V
* Chapter VI
* Chapter VII
* Chapter VIII
* Chapter IX
This work was published before January 1, 1930, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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# A New and Improved System of Mnemonics/Chapter 3

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CHAP III.
OF ASSOCIATION.
We come now to the Association of Ideas. In our Preface we have already asserted that whatever be associated with our permanent exciting causes, "The symbols will be permanently fixed in the memory;" but in this, as in every other science, industry in repeating is highly necessary, especially at first. The Hieroplyphic, with its localisation, &c. must be strongly impressed upon the mind of the student, and he should go over his ground several times, writing his Assimilations down, if he thinks it necessary, and reviewing them on a subsequent occasion, and he will find that practice will both improve the memory and brighten the imagination.
In furnishing an example of Association, we have only to revert to page 16, to the Diagram in which we have placed Words for the eighteen Figures; for what we recollect by mere locality, frequently makes but a temporary impression. We must associate things with places, and vice versa.
Our first symbol is Babel Carriers, our first word Beg; we may say, It is needless to Beg of them to desist.
2d, Dr. Faustus would Rob us of our reason, &c.
3d, Were we to weave a Net, and place lace it in a proper position, it would stop the progress of the Greyhound, &c.
This is what we term Simple Association. For Complex Association, we refer the reader to the application of this system to the chapter on History. Suppose twenty or more names were given us to remember; we should be able to repeat them forward ​and backward, or in any other order, by associating them in like manner with the symbols; thus let the first five be Book—Tower—Jug—Cage—Church; we say, first, A Book, at the foot of Babel, we will suppose it to be the Account of the Building.
2d, Dr. Faustus enchanted upon a Tower.
3d, The Greyhound, parched with thirst in the chase, and drinking out of a Jug.
4th, The Fool, very properly shut up in a Cage.
5th, Elephant, waiting for his master outside the Church, till service is ended.
Our associations are often ludicrous; but it should be remembered, that the more grotesque they appear, the more powerful they will be impressed upon the mind.
By associnting the symbols merely, without using the common numerals, we may recollect Numbers, viz.
No.1570572—15Esculapius before a 76Jewry,— an 5Elephant for their 72Judge.
Or, when the last figure or figures are cyphers, any of the great numerals that stand for Hundred, Thousand, &e. may be used; which, however, must constitute the last word, and immediately follow the last symbol used.
65,796,000—65Engraving the 79King's Arms on Silver, for the ornamenting William 6Penn's Shoe.
(Thousand)
# A New and Improved System of Mnemonics/Chapter 5

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CHAP. V.
POETRY AND PROSE.
Many methods have been resorted to fer the assistance of recollection in poetical and prose writings. The remembrance of the drudgery we undergo at school in learning by heart a certain number of lines, is engraved upon the mind by the labour and the pains attending it, and what we have thus learned is frequently forgotten, owing to our teachers not having properly led our minds into the sense and spirit of the author, so that we might as well have learnt them in a language unintelligible to us; for we cannot well associate words. words of which we do not comprehend the meaning, and consequently cannot pre sent any proper image to the mind. Articles, and the lesser parts of speech, serve only as a cement, in the same way as the vowels employed in the formation of words for remembering numbers. Every Idea that may be embodied into an Image, (and the principal Nouns and Verbs containing the substance of a story are the principal Images,) must be associated with an Hieroglyphic. The School Book called the Hieroglyphic Bible will convey a correct Idea to the student, and it is recommended to him to purchase it. It may be worthy of remark that we can remember short or part of long sentences, but are very apt to lose the connection.
We have said that every word that has an Image must be associated with a symbol, and, as the Images present themselves, they must follow in succession as much as possible.—For Example:
It must be acknowledged that descriptive poetry, where the Images are striking and various, is the easiest to be remembered. Or place as many Images as there are in a line in each corner, (supposing there are four; if five, one in the middle,) and multiplying the symbol, so as if four lines, four symbols, and hang the images of every line upon the symbol, taking care of their association. I have known a boy of twelve years of age repeat one hundred and fifty lines in this way; tell you in what line any word named (that had a meaning or image attached to it) might be found; or inform you what any line contained—the very word or words.
It will be found that the method of getting Poetry by heart by this means is particularly easy and delightful; and, laying aside measure, we proceed in the same way in Prose composition.
# A New and Improved System of Mnemonics/Chapter 7

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CHAP VII.
STATISTICAL TABLES.
Above is a series of ladders for Statistical Tables. Rule—form a word for numbers, and associate with symbol. For Religion, Products, Arts and Sciences, you may substitute hieroglyphics of your own construction. These ladders are employed as those in Geography.
# A New and Improved System of Mnemonics/Chapter 8

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CHAP VIII.
SYSTEMATIC TABLES AND DIARY.
The first may be fixed on the memory to a most extraordinary extent sy this system, particularly Zoological Tables. The Linnean class, Mamınalia, for instance. Take a single Order, and place the various Genera, or different parts, on a single hieroglyphic, or more, and associate with it. When this science was revived by Fainaigle, and first introduced into this country, an eminent astronomer declared that, previously to his acquiring the system, it was with the utmost difficulty he could remember distances, but that now it was become familiar.
DIARY. :
| Jan. | Jan. | Jan. | | | Feb. | Feb. | Feb. | | | Mars. | Mars. | Mars. |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 10 | 10 | 61 | 62 | 63 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | | |
| 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | | | 39 | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | 10 | | 10 | 10 | | 40 | | 10 | 10 | | 70 | |
| 11 | | | 10 | 10 | 41 | | | 10 | 10 | 71 | | |
| | | | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | | | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | | 19 | 10 | 10 | | | 49 | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | 20 | | 10 | 10 | | 50 | | 10 | 10 | | 80 | |
| 21 | | | 10 | 10 | 51 | | | 10 | 10 | 81 | | |
| | | | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | | | 10 | 10 | | 58 | 59 | 10 | 10 | | | |
| | 30 | | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | 90 | |
| | 31 | | 10 | 10 | | | | 10 | 10 | | 91 | |
​We have here the first three months depicted on the first wall (left hand); we shall not want all the squares for February, therefore they need not be filled up. This wall shall be coloured green.
The second, April, May, June, may be blue; the third red; and the fourth white (winter).
Should you want to fix in the memory a conjectural event, you may form a word of the number of the hieroglyphic, thus—63, (Mars 3d,) Noah, and associate with it a symbol.
# Tamerlane (Rowe)/Act 1 Sc 1

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