The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-21

Now have you lost my heart and all my
cannot love coward by my faith.
How burst you say for shame unto your
love
That anything might make you afraid7
Have you no mans heart and have
Alas and can ye DO sghast Of dreams7
Nothing God wots but vanity Is in a
dream.
Dreams are engendered OF repietion
OF gfuttony and OF hurors."
But aIas for the dream, On a bright
March day long after the. curtain lee
ture had been forgotten the Cock sud
denly espsed amid the weeds the. object
haste when the Fox gently called him
and assured him of his friendship:
Now truly the cause OF my coming
Was only for to hearken how you sing,
For truly you have as merry a yorice
AS any angel hath that Is in heaven.
Ny lord your father, God his soul blese,
And also your mother with her gentle
Have in my house been to MY great
And certainly. sir. fun vain would you
Save YOU never heard one sing
As did your father In the morning"
To make his voice more clear it was his
custom. declared the Fox. to shut hard
his eyes and stretch out his neck to its
fun extent. The Cock. ravfshed by this
HIS father and was Instantly seized and
carried away.
20 destiny. that may not BIO eschewed,
Alas that Chandelier few from the
beamss
Alas that hts wife rocked nothing for
his dreamsi
And on a Friday happened all this ILL.,"
Confusion at once broke loose.
"Cerses. such cry nor lamentatiou
Was never ladies made when Hon was
won.
But chiefly dame Pertelote did shrek
Full louder than did Hasdrubaie's wife
When that her husband had lost his life"
Tho owner Of the hens and her daugh-
tiers. startled by the fearful cry. add TO
Out hsrroY, and weiaway,
And also with slaves many another man.
Ran Cct,e, our dog. and Talbot and Ger
And Maxim, with dIstaf in her hand:
Ran cow and calf and also even the hogs
They were 50 frightened at the barking
And shouting of the men and women.
They, yelled as lends ana devils do in
The ducks squaIied out as II they'd come
The geese for fear new far above the
trees,
Out Of the hive poured all the swarm Of
bees,
so hideous was the noise, All! henedictes
Certes Jack Straw and all his train
Made never shouts one-half 80 shril
When that they would q Fleming kill
AS that dav was made upon the fox.
or brass they brought trumpets and OF
box.
OF horn: Of bone. on which they blew
II seemed as II the heavens would FAM
A little presence OF mind on the part
Of the Cock ends the tale At his advice
The Fox opens his mouth 10 raii at his
noisy pursuers. and the lucky fowl flies
quickly to tree which no argument
can ffsicdge him.
The main charm OF this simple tale, OF
which have given only the baldest Of
outlines, lies in it's genuine hurnor. II -
not barnyard fowls that We zee. but hui
mainly with Its petty erudtion. Its fears.
its superstitions. its vanity. There Ia
no bitterness; there are no bursts OF real
wit but through II all and ovor. X all
spreads and Quivers the lambent gleam
OF true hunior that cannot be caught.
that cannot be analysed. All Of Chau-
GERS tales have this rare qualification.
He was the f,rst great English hunor-
ist. and his charming tales live and win
live az isng az human nature and human
weakness can move the syrnrathies of
men
h1 L4.. IME.
Pennsylvania state College.