The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1870-02-09

!: Huzzoa AND TnUTH IN FABLa.-We
nfsend TO- the attention Of pur readers
~ following stosy Of THE FosesA A.a
FsRe Bear" Isa asves a fhe pi1ture q khe
political situati6p, as iade BY ths se-
1nozssless policy q tho radical recon
stEuotionists. That policy is, for the
iGoufh to "eat dirt'-and to eat more
'"dirt." We take the story from the
Richmond Enquirer:
TEE FoxEs AND THE BEAR.-Once upon
q time, some foxes and bear went into
partnership, and occupied the same cave.
They lived together peaceably for many
years, the foxes finding the bear of great
advantage to them, for he contributed
more than the foxes did to the common
support, and he did the most OF the
fighting in o great battle that they once
had With the lion. But at last, there
arose family quarrel, and it came about
in this way: When the winter came, it
was the habit of the bear to stop work
and to spend the whole of the time in
the cave, sucking his paws, and in this
way, he enjoyed himself hugely. The
foxes seeing how we'll the bear got on
without work, and how he enjoyed him
self, commenced sucking their paws, but
somehow or other, they found that they
could not make q living in that way, as
the bear could, and that on the whole, it
didn't pay; so they had to give it up and
go out into the cold and forage for q liv-
ing, as usual. Then they began to envy
the bear, because he appeared to enjoy
himself and to live so much easier than
they did, and took up n violent hatred to
him just because he sucked his paws.
They passed law that the sucking of
paws should be abolished forever among
foxes, and then they began to remon-
strate with the bear upon the impropri-
ETY. of his conduct and to petition him
to give up the horrible practice. But
the bear said he would do no such thing;
that it was agreed upon when they first
went into partnership, that he should he
allowed to suck his paws in peace; that
he had constitutional right to do so;
that it was necessary for his comfort and
happiness, and that paw suck he would
to the end of time, and the foxes had no
right to interfere with him. Then the
foxes got up -paw-sucking societies,
which declared that paw sucking was the
sum OF all villainies, and they preached
at the bear, and petitioned him, and
even went 80 far as to pull his paws out
of his mouth, at which the bear got into
such violent rage that he declared that
he would ... 1Sve .:Sovive partnership with the
foxes and leave the cave, and 60 and set
up business for himself. But the foxes
told him that he had no right to leave,
and that he shouldn't leave. The bear
said he would not ask them any odds;
that he could whip thousand miserable
little foxes, and ono fine morning, he
told the foxes goodbye, and proceeded
to walk out of the cave and leave it for
ever. But he had hardly got out of the
cave, before the foxes set up a tremen-
dous howl and fell on him. and there
was such fight as was hardly ever seen
before. The bear flung the foxes right
them, and tore them to pieces, and often
times thought that he had got rid of
them, but the more foxes he killed, the
moro they seemed to increase in num-
bers, for the foxes, finding that the bear
was getting the better of them and was
about to get off, sent out and hired some
foreign foxes to help them; so that, as
fast as one set of foxes was killed, other
foxes were put in their place, and the
bear had no rest. But he stood at bay
and kept the foxes off as fast as they
came up. Finally, the foxes, finding
that they could not whip him in fair
fight, determined to starve him out, so
they surrounded him completely 80 that
he could get nothing to eat or to drink.
The bear then began to suffer severely
and to grow thin and weak, and in his
distress, he called upon the eagle and
the lion to come over and help him, but
they told him that he must do his own
fighting. At last, the bear became so
completely exhausted by hunger and fa-
tigue, that he could scarcely stand up,
and the foxes thinking that they might
now make venture, collected together
in great numbers and fell upon the bear
and walloped him so that he stopped
fighting and cried Enough" and said
that he would 60 back into the cave
again and carry on business as before.
But the foxes told him to wait awhile,
he must have his abilities removed. So
they tied him, hand and foot, with strong
cords, and muzzled him, and placed a
strong guard around him, and then be-
gan to parley with him and persecute
him. They told him before they could