Arizona republican., 1904-07-11
UNCLE ELPs FABLES.

One day three wolves who were hunt ing in company came across a sheep which lay dying, and two of them had rushed ofrward to the feast when the third called out:
 Such haste seems to me unseenly and uncalled for. Let us rather wal. and argue the matter for moment
 T see nothing to argue" replied Wolf number two.
 Nor l either" added number three.
 Perhaps not, but let us see. should like to ask my friend on the right why a sheep is a sheep when alive, but mutton when dead? If my friend on the left can hold his hunger for few minutes he may. tell me why the skin of calf is skin. and yet the skin of a sheep is a pelt?
 When we have satisfied ourselves on the three points then we will fall to and eat o1r fill and rejoice"
 Wolf number two cleared his throat and began to tell the difference between a live sheep and dead mutton. as he understood it, but he mad not uttered fifty words when nuln'rer three dis agreed with him. red hot argument was the result, and number two was finally driven to say:
 Well, if you can't follow my line of reasoning you either lack brains or are obstinate"
 "A.ad a wolf who will advance such nonsense is either an idiot or a knave" replied number three.
 A minute later they had charged each other with selling their voices and being horse thieves, and were scrapping for the gate receipts and it was q quar- ter of an hour later when the Fox came along and found them panting for breath and called out:
 Hello, you. but what's the mattei here?"
 I've been giving this ass licking. '' replied number two.
 Its that fool who has got more than enough added number three.
 But what have you been fighting about?"
 Why, the three of us come al ng here to that dying sheep and
 "Dytrg sheep? But where is he?"
 Right over there and"
 But there is no dying or dead she CD here. There are a few Balls Of wool and few clean picked bones. and l met a friend of yours trotting along with a contented lo1k on his face. but 1 saw nothing to fight about. It seems tJ me ycu are off the track
 Moral: Of what use to dispute over meat that someone else has eaten?
 The Grasshoppers living in certa n field were put in peril of their lives by
 
 and chasing them about, and they final ly gathered in convention and resolved that s-mething must be done. The: e was an old bull in the next field and as he had never evinced any antipathy to the grasshoppers, a delegation was appointed to wait on him and ask for his strength and good will. When the situation had been stated the bull forg- ed to the front and said:
 Nv dear R-pre-s, you have come to the right party the first time I have beer observing the old gobbler, and if don't run his legs off for him you may call ms a goat. Go right home and rest easy in your minds that I'm a friend of yours"
 An hour later. as the g-bbler appear cd in the field in hopes to snap up a few hoppers the bull broke the fence down and came charging on the foe. He ran the gobbler 10 cover quickly enough but not satisfied with that he went galloping around until he had troddep more hoppers into the earth thar the gobbler would have eaten in the season.
 Moral: One can be such al gocd friend that 1t were better to have an enemy.
 One night as the Cooper lay sleeping, his wife w-ke him up with the state mert that she heard a strange noise outside. and after listening for a mo- ment, he replied:
 "If it is robbers we have nothing 10 steal. and can therefore go to sleep again. Blessed be they who have noth- ing and can lose nothing
 But I think cur goat has got out of the barn" she said.
 "In which case no harm will be done. That is, no humanitarian will como along and obIige us by killing him. A goat is critter of Providence, and nothing can happen to a goat"