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# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXXI and CCXXII

Fab. CCXXI.
An Old Crab and a Young.
CHild, (says the Mother) You must Use your self to Walk Streight, without Skewing, and Shailing so Every step you set: Pray Mother (says the Young Crab) do but set the Example your self, and I'll follow ye.
Fab. CCXXII.
The Goose and Gosselin.
WHY do you go Nodding, and Waggling so like a Fool, as if you were Hipshot? says the Goose to her Gosselin. The Young One try’d to Mend it, but Could not; and so the Mother ty’d Little Sticks to her Legs, to keep her Upright: But the Little One Complain’d then, that she could neither Swim, nor Dabble with em. Well, says the Mother, Do but hold up your Head at least. The Gosselin Endeavour'd to do That too; but upon the Stretching out of her Long Neck, she complain'd that she could not see the Way before her: Nay then, says the Goose, if it will be no Better, e'en carry your Head and your Feet, as your Elders have done before ye.
The Moral of the Two Fables above.
REFLEXION.
Example Works a great Deal more then Precept; for Words without Practice, are but Councels without Effect. When we Do as we say, 'tis a Confirmation of the Rule; but when our Lives and Doctrines do not Agree, it looks as if the Lesson were either too Hard for us, or the Advice, not worth the While to Follow. We should see to Mend our Own Manners, before we Meddle to Reform our Neighbours, and not Condemn Others for what we do our Selves: Especially where they follow the Nature of their Kind, and in so doing, Do as they Ought to do. Let Every thing Move, March, and Govern it self, according to the Proper Disposition of the Creature; for it would be Every Jot as Incongruous, for a Crab to Walk like a Man, as for a Man to Walk like a Crab. This may be apply to the Lessons that are given us for the Ordering of our Lives and Families, But above All Things, Children should not be Betray'd into the Love and Practice of any thing that is Amiss, by Setting Evil Examples before them; for their Talent is only Imitation; and ‘tis ill Trusling Mimicks in such a Case, without a Judgment to Distinguish.
This Allegory may pass for a very Good Lecture to Governors, Parents, and Tutors, to behave themselves Reverently both in Word and Deed, before their Pupils, with a kind of Awful Tenderness for ​the Innocency and Simplicity of Youth. For Examples of Vices, or Weaknessles, have the same Effect upon Children, with Examples of Vertue; Nay it holds in Publique too as well as in Private, that the Words and Actions of our Superiors have the Authority and Force of a Recommendation. Regis ad Exemption, is so True, that ‘tis Morally Impossible to have a Sober People under a Mad Government. For where Lewdness is the Way to Preferment, Men are Wicked by Interest, as well by Imitation: But to Return to the Stress of the Fable, Let a Goose Walk like a Goose, and leave Nature to do her Own Bus'ness her Own Way,
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXVI

Fab. CCXVI.
A Fisherman and a Little Fish.
AS an Angler was at his Sport, he had the Hap to Draw up a very Little Fish from among the Fry. The Poor Wretch begg'd heartily to be thrown in again; for says he, I’m not come to my Growth yet, and if you'l let me alone till I am Bigger, Your Purchase will turn to a Better Account. Well! says the Man, but I'd rather have a Little Fish in Possession, then a Great One in Reversion.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
THERE’s no Parting with a Certainty for an Uncertainty. But This Fable is abundantly Moraliz’d Elsewhere.
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXVII

Fab. CCXVII.
An Ant and a Grasshopper.
AS the Ants were Airing their Provisions One Winter, Up comes a Hungry Grasshopper to 'em, and begs a Charity. They told him that he should have Wrought in Summer, if he would not have Wanted in Winter. Well says the Grasshopper, but I was not Idle neither; for I Sung out the Whole Season. Nay then, said they, You shall e'en do Well to make a Merry Year on't, and Dance in Winter to the Tune that You Sung in Summer.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
HERE's a Reproof to Men of Sensuality, and Pleasure. The Moral Preaches Industry, and Beats down Sloth, and Shews that Alter-wit is Nothing Worth. It must be an Industrious Youth that provides against the Inconveniencies, and Necessities of Old Age; And He that Fools away the One, must either Beg or Starve in the Other. Go to the Ant thou Sluggard; (says the Wise-man) which in Few Words Summs up the Moral of This Fable. 'Tis Hard to say of Laziness, or Luxury, whether it be the more Scandalous, or the more Dangerous Evil. The very Soul of the Slothful, does Effectually but lie Drowzing in his Body, and the Whole Man is Totally given up to his Senses: Whereas the Profit and the Comfort of Industry, 1s Substantial, Firm, and Lasting; The Blessings of Security and Plenty go along with it, and it is never out of Season. What's the Grasshoppers Entertaimment now, but a Summers Song? A Vain. and an Empty Pleasure? Let it be Understood however, that we are not to Pass Avarice upon the World under the Title of Good Husbandry, and Thrift: and under That Cover to Extinguish Charity by not Distributing the Fruits of it. We are in the First Place, to Consult our Own Necessities, but we are Then to Consider in the Second Place, that the Necessities of our Neighbours have a Christian Right to a Part of what we have to Spare. For the Common Offices of Humanity, are as much Duties of Self-Preservation, as what Every Individual Contributes to it's Own Well-Being. It is in short, the Great Interest and Obligation of Particulars, to Advance the Good of the Community.
The Stress of This Moral lies upon the Preference of Honest Labour to Idleness; and the Refusal of Relief on the One Hand, is intended only for a Reproof to the Inconsiderate Loss of Opportunity on the Other. This does not Hinder yet, but that the Ants, out of their Abundance, ought to have Reliev'd the Grasshopper in her Distress, though ‘twas her Own Fault that brought her to't: For if One Man's Faults could Discharge Another Man of his Duty,there would be no longer any Place left for the Common Offices of Society. To Conclude, We have our Failings, Every Mothers Child of us, and the Improvidence of my Neighbour must not make Me Inhumane. The Ant did well to Reprove the Grasshopper for her Slothfulness; but she did Ill then to refuse her a Charity in her Distress.
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXVIII

Fab. CCXVIII.
A Bull and a Goat.
A Bull that was Hard Press'd by a Lyon, ran directly toward a Goats-Stall, to Save Himself. The Goat made Good the Door, and Head to Head Disputed the Passage with him. Well! says the Bull, with Indignation, If I had not a more Dangerous Enemy at my Heels, then I have Before me, I should soon Teach you the Difference betwixt the Force of a Bull, and of a Goat.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
IT is Matter of Prudence, and Necessity; for People in many Cases to put up the Injuries of a Weaker Enemy, for fear of Incurring the Dilpleasure of a Stronger. Baudoin fancies the Bull to be the Emblem of a Man in Distress, and the Goat Insulting over him; and Moralizes upon it after This Manner. [There’s Nothing that a Courtier more Dreads and Abhors, then a Man in Disgrace; and he is presently made All the Fools and Knaves in Nature upon't: For He that’s Unfortunate is Consequently Guilty of All manner of Crimes.] He Applies This Character to those that Persecute Widows and Orphans, and Trample upon the Afflicted; though not without tome Violence Methinks, to the Genuine Intent of This Figure; for the Goat was only Pasive; and his Bus’ness was, without any Insolence, or Injustice, to Defend his Free-Hold
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXX

Fab. CCXX.
An Eagle and a Tortoise.
A Tortoise was thinking with himself, how Irksom a sort of Life it was, to spend All his Days in a Hole, with a a House upon his Head, when so many Other Creatures had the Liberty to Divert Themselves in the Free, Fresh Air, and to Ramble about at Pleasure. So that the Humor took him One Day, and he must needs get an Eagle to Teach him to Fly. The Eagle would fain have put him off, and told him 'twas a Thing against Nature, and Common Sense; but (according to the Freak of the Wilful Part of the World) the More the One was Against it, the More the Other was For it: And when the Eagle saw that the Tortoise would not be said Nay, she took him up a matter of Steeple-high into the Air, and there turn’d him Loose to shift for Himself. That is to say; she dropt him down, Squab upon a Rock, that Dash’d him to Pieces.
The Moral.
Nothing can be either Safe, or Easy, that’s Unnatural.
REFLEXION.
THIS shews us, how Unnatural a Vanity it is, for a Creature that was Made for One Condition, to Aspire to Another. The Tortoise's Place was upon the Sands, not among the Stars; and if he had kept to his Station, he would have been in No Danger of Falling. Many a Fool has Good Councel Offer'd him, that has not either the Wit, or the Grace to Take it ; and his Willfulness commonly Ends in his Ruine.
Every thing in Nature has it’s Appointed Place, and Condition, and there's No putting a Force upon any thing, contrary to the Biass and Intent of it's Instisution. What Bus’ness has a Tortorise among the Clouds? Or why may not the Earth it self as well Covet a Higher Place, as any Creature that's Confin'd to't? It is, in short, a Silly, an Extravagant, and in Truth, so Impious a Fancy, that there can hardly be a Greater Folly then to Wish, or but so much as to Suppose it: But there's an Ambition in Mean Creatures, as well as in Mean Souls. So many Ridiculous Upstarts as we find Promoted in the World, we may Imagine to be so many Tortorises in the Air; and when they have Flutter’d there a While, like Paper-Kites, for the Boys to stare at, He that took them up, grows either Asham'd, or Weary of them, and so lets them Drop again; and, with the Devil Himself, e'en leaves them where he found them. ‘This may serve to put a Check to the Vanity and Folly of an Unruly Ambition; that's Deaf, not only to the Advice of Friends, but to the Councels and Monitions of the very Spirit of Reason it self: For Flying without Wings is All one with Working without Means. We see a Thousand Instances in the World, Every jot as Ridiculous as This in the Fable. That is to say of Men that are Made for One Condition, and yet Affect Another. What Signifies the Fiction of Phaeton in the Chariot of the Sun? The Frog vying Bulk with an Oxe; or the Tortorise Riding upon the Wings of the Wind; but to Prescribe Bounds and Measures to our Exorbitant Passions; and at the same time, to thew us upon the Issue, that All Unnatural Pretensions are Attended with a Certain Ruine?
# Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists/Fable CCXXIV

Fab. CCXXIV.
An Ass in a Lyon’s Skin.
THere was a Freak took an Ass in the Head, to Scoure a broad upon the Ramble; and away he goes into the Woods, Masquerading up and down in a Lyon's Skin. The World was his Own for a while, and wherever he went, Man and Beast Fled before him: But he had the Hap in the Conclusion, partly by his Voice, and partly by his Ears, to be Discover'd, and consequently Uncas’d, well Laugh’d at, and well Cudgell’d for his Pains.
The Moral.
REFLEXION.
Every Fool, or Fools Fellow, carries More or Less, in his Face, the Signature of his Manners, though the Character may be much more Legible in some, then in Others; As the Ass was found out by his Voice and by his Ears. Let him keep his Words betwixt his Teeth, and he may pass Muster perhaps for a Man of some Sense; but if he comes to Open once, he's Lost: For Nature never put the Tongue of a Philosopher into the Mouth of a Coxcomb: But however, let him be, in truth, what he Will he is yet so Conscious of what he Ought to be, that he makes it his Business to pass for what he is not: And in the Matter of Counterfeits, it is with Men, as it is with False Mony: One Piece is more or less Passable then Another, as it happens to have more or less Sense, or Sterling in the Mixture. One General Mark of an Impostor is This; That he Out-does the Original; As the Ass here in the Lyon-skin, made Fifty times more Clutter then the Lyon would have done in his Own; And Himself Fifty times the more Ridiculous for the Disguise.
If a Man turn his Thoughts now from This Fancy in the Forrest, to the Sober Truth of Daily Experience in the World, he shall find Asses in the Skins of Men, Infinitely more Contemptible then This Ass in the Skin of a Lyon. How many Terrible Asses have we seen in the Garb of Men of Honour! How many Insipid, and Illiterate Fops, that take upon them to Retail Politiques, and sit for the Picture of Men of State! How ​many udas's with Hail Master in their Mouths! How many Church-Robbers that Write themselves Reformers! In One Word, Men do Naturally love to bethought Greater, Wiser, Holier, Braver, and Juster then they Are; and in fine, Better Qualify’d in All Those Faculties that may give them Reputation among the People, then we find ‘em to be.
The Moral of This Fable Hits all sorts of Arrogant Pretenders, and runs Effectually into the Whole Bus'ness of Humane Life. We have it in the very Cabinets, and Councels of State, the Bar, the Bench, the Change, the Schools, the Pulpits; All Places, in short, are full of Quacks, Jugglers and Plagiaries, that set up for Men of Quality, Conscience, Philosophy, and Religion. So that there are Asses with Short Ears, as well as with Long, and in Robes of Silk and Dignity, as well as in Skins of Hair. In Conclusion, An Ass of the Long Robe, when he comes once to be Detected, looks Infinitely Sillier, then he would have done in his own Shape: Neither is Æsop's Ass Laugh’d at here for his Ears, or for his Voice, but for his Vanity, and Pretence; for T’other is but according to his own Kind and Nature; and Every thing is Well and Best, while it Continues to be as God made it.
# Fairy Book (Clarke)

LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.
FAIRY BOOK.
BY
SOPHIE MAY.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD,
(SUCCESSORS TO PHILLIPS, SAMPSON, & CO.)
1866.
CRISTOBAL.Page 32.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by LEE & SHEPARD, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
THIS
BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
IS DEDICATED
TO LITTLE BESSIE.
CONTENTS.
PAGE
LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.
BY SOPHIE MAY.
I.
LITTLE PRUDY.
II.
LITTLE PRUDY'S SISTER SUSY.
III.
LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.
IV.
LITTLE PRUDY'S COUSIN GRACIE.
V.
LITTLE PRUDY'S STORY BOOK.
VI.
LITTLE PRUDY'S DOTTY DIMPLE.
# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Cannot be Debated

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To fix the time to which to adjourn (when another question is before the assembly).
​A call for the orders of the day.
Suspension of the rules.
To lay on the table.
To take from the table.
The previous question.
Objection to consideration.
Granting leave to read papers.
Questions of order (on an undebatable question).
Questions as to the method of voting.
To go into committee of the whole.
Any matter that interrupts an undebatable question.
All motions limiting or closing debate.
Granting leave to withdraw a motion.
​Granting leave to continue his speech (to one deemed guilty of indecorum in debate).
An appeal, when it relates to indecorum in debate, or to a transgression of the rules, or to priority of business, or if the previous question is pending.
The main question (27) cannot be debated while an amendment (106) is pending, or when an amendment to an amendment (112) is pending the amendment can be debated only so far as is necessary to show the propriety or impropriety of adopting the amendment to the amendment.
The motions to postpone indefinitely (122) and to reconsider (135) if applied to be a debatable question, opens to debate the merits of the question sought to be postponed or reconsidered.
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# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Appeal

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APPEAL.
​The form is, “I appeal from the decision of the chair.” An appeal must be made at once or the question is presumed to have been correctly decided and is not afterward subject to appeal. This does not require recognition from the chair, is debatable, unless it refers to indecorum, or a violation of the rules, or to priority of business. The presiding officer has precedence, and also the right to speak without leaving his chair.
While a point of order (32) is undebatable, unless so requested by the chair, an appeal from a decision of the chair on a point of order is debatable. If, however, any appeal has interrupted an undebatable question, it is then undebatable.
125. When an appeal is made to the chairman may or may not state his reasons for his decision without leaving the chair, and say, “Shall the decision of the chair be sustained?” when a vote will be taken. If the vote is in the affirmative, the chair is sustained, or if the vote is a tie the chair is sustained, because a decision of the chair can only be reversed by a majority of the assembly. If the vote is in the negative ​the appeal is sustained and the decision is changed accordingly.
An appeal is not in order when another appeal is pending. It may be made when the previous question (97) is pending; but if made at such a time the appeal cannot be debated. It cannot be amended. It may be reconsidered whether the decision of the chair is, or is not, sustained, unless immediate action has followed the vote on the appeal. An appeal may be laid on the table, but the effect of laying it on the table is to sustain the chair only until the appeal is acted upon. The appeal, if laid on the table, does not carry to the table the question to which it is incidental.
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# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Cannot be Amended

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A call for the orders of the day.
To adjourn (when unqualified).
To lay on the table.
To take from the table.
The previous question.
To postpone indefinitely.
An appeal.
Objection to consideration.
Withdrawal of a motion (granting leave for).
Suspension of the rules.
To reconsider.
Amendment of an amendment.
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# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Amendment of an Amendment

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AMENDMENT OF AN AMENDMENT.
112. When an amendment is offered and the amendment is not satisfactory the amendment may be amended by moving an amendment to the amendment; but in order to avoid confusion and to facilitate business there must be some limit to the number of pending amendments. Therefore, practice has placed this limit at one primary amendment and one secondary amendment (or amendment of the amendment). If, however, after the secondary amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, or after the amendment has been acted upon and either adopted or rejected, other amendments would be in order, which may also be adopted or rejected, and so on until the assembly is satisfied, because since a resolution or motion may require many amendments to express the deliberate judgment of the assembly, the only limit to the number of amendments that may be made ​is the will of the assembly. In amending an amendment you may amend in any of the forms of amendment—i. e., by inserting or adding, by striking out, by striking and inserting or adding, by division of the proposed amendment, or by substitution. When an amendment to an amendment is before the assembly it requires three separate votes to decide the question. Provided all are carried, the questions will be as follows:
1. On the amendment to the amendment.
2. On the amended amendment.
3. On the main question as amended.
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# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/Classification of Motions

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CLASSIFICATION OF MOTIONS.
72. Privileged, or independent motions, Sec. 80.
Subsidiary, or preferred dependent motions, Sec. 93.
Incidental, or dependent motions, Sec. 123.
Miscellaneous motions, Sec. 132.
Main, or principal motions, Sec. 27.
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# Felt’s Parliamentary Procedure/As Applied to Paragraphs

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AS APPLIED TO PARAGRAPHS.
119. If it is moved to strike out a paragraph, then a new principle is involved, because inasmuch as the whole paragraph is to be struck out there will be nothing left upon which to ingraft an amendment, and if struck out it cannot be restored in whole or in part, or if the motion to strike out is rejected the assembly has really adopted the paragraph and it cannot be amended; therefore, it must be amended before the vote to strike out is taken, if at all. For this reason, the rule as to striking out and inserting words is modified when applied to striking out and inserting paragraphs.
​The only way by which action could be reversed at that session would be to reconsider the vote by which said paragraph was struck out, or inserted. This reconsideration, if it prevailed, would place the question again before the assembly in precisely the same condition as before the vote to strike out or insert was taken, and than the desired amendment would be in order.
​If the assembly desired to reject both propositions, that is, the original paragraph and the one it is proposed to insert, it should reject the motion to strike out and insert, and then by a new motion strike out the original paragraph. (See also substitute Sec. 141.)
Notes.—It is the common practice in legislative assemblies after a bill has been perfected by amendment in committee to move to strike out all after the “enacting clause” and substitute the bill as perfected, or to amend a resolution by stiking out all after the word “resolved” and substituting another resolution on the same subject.
If the “enacting clause” is struck out the bill is deprived of the words which give it life and make it law, and it is thus defeated.
(See also note to Sec. 143.)
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