Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-03-21
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Fables by G, Washington Esop.
THE GOOD SAMARITAN.

THE GOOD SAMARITAN.
A certain Man went from Jeruss-
'em to Jericho and fell among Thieves
who peat him aud stripped him and
left him for dead. s Good Samaritan,
seeing this, cIapped Spurs to his Ass
and ssalloped away, lest he should be
sent 10 the House of Detention as
Witness while the Robbers were re-
eascd on Bail
Moral The Perceiver rs worse
than the Thief
1 rue MERCHANT OF VENICE.
A Venetian Merchant who was iol-
ing il, the lap of Luxury was accosted
upon the Rialto by Friend who had
not seen him for many months. .How
= this Z cried the latter; when last
saw you your Gaberdine was out at
elbows.and now you sail IN your own
Gondoia. True. replied the Mer
chant, but since then / have met with
serious losses aud been obliged 10
compound with.my Credilors for ten
Cents on the Dollar
neutrality-suspicious. is the Life Of
Trade
THE two TURKEYS.
An Honest Farmer once led his
two Turkeys into his Granary aud
told them to eat, drink and be merry
One OF these Turkeys was wise and
one foolish. The foolish Bird at once
INDUCED exclusively in the Pleasures
OF the Stable, unsuspicious OF the Flu
ture, but the wiser Fowl, in order that
he might not be fattened and slaugh-
tered, tasted continually, mortified his
Flesh and devoted himself TO gloomy
Reflections upon the brevity of Life.
When Thanksgiving approached, the
HoDest Farmer killed both Turkeys,
and oy placing Rock in the interior
Of the Pruden. Turkey made him
weiga more than his plumper Broth
er.
Morot-As we Travel through Life
Let us Live by the Way.
THE GLOW WORM AND TIE FAMIsHRp
NIGHTINGALE.
A famished Nightingale, who had
been singing to very Thin Houses,
CHANGED to encounter Glow. worm
at Eventide and prepared to make up
on him Light Repsst. The unfor-
tuna,e Lampyris Splendidula besought
the songster, in the sscYed pane of
Art not 20 guench his Vital Spark,
and appealed to his Magnamity. THE
Nightingale who needlessly sets Claw
upon a Glow worm, he renarked,'is a
Being whom il were gross Flattery to
term Luscinia Philomela The Bird
however, turned deaf Beak to these
Appeals aud was about TO douse tie
Glim, when the Glow worm cried
out, Beware, lest / give you the
Heartburn; remember how Herod
and Luther died Of a diet of Glow.
worms and while the Nightingale
(whc was by no means bad Bird at
Stomacb) was considering these
Propositions, escaped, hanging out
False Lights to battle his Enemy's
Pursuit
Morat-Let the Dead Past bury it's
Dead Act. act in the Living Present.
THE CHRISTOPHER AND THE ANT.
A frivolous Grasshopper having
spent the Summer in Mlrth and Rev.
,lry, went on the Approach of the in
clement Winter to the Ant, and inn
plored it of its charity to stake him..
You had better go to your Uncle
replied the prudent ant; had you imi-
itated my Forethought and deposited
your Funds in Savings Bank you
would hot now be compelled to re.
gard yonr Duster in the light of an
Ulster Thus saying, the virtuous
Ant retired, and read in the Papers
next morning that the Savings Bank
where he had deposited his Funds
had suspended
Morat-Dum Vivimus, Uranus.
THE socRATTo CHIMPANzEE AND THE
SHALLOW BABooN.
A Chimpanzee who had long view
ed with Envy the Popularity of a
shallow but Pretentious Balloon, ask
ed him to account for the presence Of
the Milk in the Cocoanut. The Ba.
boon replied that his Questioner be-
lieved in the Darwinian Theory that
Monkeys degenerated into Man; an
answer which 80 delighted the Spec.
tators that they tore the Chimpanzee
into Pieces while the Baboon's work
on the Conflict of Science and Ortho.
doxy attained an Hundredth Edition.
Moral-A Hard Question turneth
away Argument.
TIE HARE AND THE TORTOISE.
The Hare once challenged the Tor.
toise to Trial of Speed. The Hare
frisked about merrily, paying little
attention to his Rival, or jeering him
for his Slowress. The Tortois. how.
ever, plodded along steadily and had
well nigh reached the Goal, when the
Hare observed his Progress. Away
darted the Hare like lightning and
won the race.
Moral.-The Race is not always to
the Slow
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