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LEAN hungry Wolf chanced one moonshiny night to fall in with a plump, well-fed House-Dog. After the first compliments were passed between them, "How is it, my friend," said the Wolf, that you look so sleek? How well your food agrees with you! and here am I striving for my living night and day, and can hardly save myself from starving." "Well," says the Dog, "if you would fare like me, you have only to do as I do." "Indeed!" says he, "and what is that?" "Why," replies the Dog, "just to guard the master's house and keep off the thieves at night." "With all my heart; for at present I have but a sorry time of it. This woodland life, with its frosts and rains, is sharp work for me. To have a warm roof over my head and a bellyful of victuals always at hand will, methinks, be no bad exchange." "True," says the Dog; "therefore you have nothing to do but to follow me." Now as they were jogging on together, the Wolf spied a mark in the Dog's neck, and having a strange curiosity, could not forbear asking what it meant. "Pooh! nothing at all," says the Dog. "Nay, but pray"-says the Wolf. "Oh! a mere trifle, perhaps the collar to which my chain is fastened-" "Chain!" cries the Wolf in surprise; "you don't mean to say that you can not rove when and where you please?" "Why, not exactly perhaps; 70u see I am looked upon as rather fierce, so they sometimes tie me up in the daytime, but I assure you I have perfect liberty at night, and the master feeds me off

THE COLLIER AND THE FULLER.

hood by fishing, after a long day's toil caught nothing but one little fish. "Spare me," said the little creature, "I beseech you; so small as I am, I shall make you but a sorry meal. I am not come to my full size yet; throw me back into the river for the present, and then,

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POT of Honey having been upset

around it in swarms to eat it up, nor would they move from the spot while there was a drop left. At length their feet became so clogged that they could not fly away, and stifled in the luscious sweets they exclaimed, "Miserable creatures that we are, who for the sake of an hour's pleasure have thrown away our lives!"

THE MONKEY AND THE CAMEL. Ta great meeting of the Beasts,

AT

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THE COCK AND THE JEWEL. Sa Cock was scratching up the

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The Cock was a sensible Cock: but there are many silly people who despise what is precious only because they can not understand it.

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HERCULES AND THE WAGONER. Sa Countryman was carelessly driving his wagon along a miry lane, his wheels stuck so deep in the clay that the horses came to a stand-still. Upon this the man, without making the least effort of his own, began to call upon Hercules to come and help him out of his trouble. But Hercules bade him lay his shoulder to the wheel, assuring him that Heaven only aided those who endeavored to help themselves.

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To be spiritually minded is life and peace.-ROMANS vill. 6. Who maketh his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire.-PSALMS civ. 4.

FROM whence the spell that awes and thrills,
That tells of coming woes and ills,

Or lifts the thoughts from earth?
What shades the sunny, social hour,
And gives to mind prophetic power,

Hushing each tone of mirth?
Where links the soul's electric chain,
That telegraphs to heart and brain,
Telling of danger near?
Have loved ones borne this spirit tie,
To a brighter clime beyond the sky,

To tell us when to fear?

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Of a bright, eternal day!

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The sleeping infart charm. What raiseth the eye of saints when dying? Are hovering angels around them flying,

To bear the spirit away? And in that hour when the pulse beats slow, What giveth the face an illum'd glow?

A spiritual dawning ray!

From whence the spell that awes and thrills, That tells of coming woes and ills,

Or lifts the thoughts from earth? What shades the sunny, social hour, And gives to mind prophetic power, Hushing each tone of mirth?

LEIPSIC, OHIO.

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