. Early lessons .. . , the main object, and leading pointin view, and bring the application home to your own mind. OSTIACK BOY. A RUSSIAN was travelling from Tobolsk to Beresow. Onthe road, he stopped one might at the hut of an Ostiack. Inthe morning, on continuing his journey, he discovered thathe had lost his purse, containing about one hundred son of the Ostiack, a boy about fourteen years of age,found the purse while hunting deer ; but instead of takingit up, he went and told his father, who was equally unwillingto touch it, and ordered the boy to cover it with some fe
. Early lessons .. . , the main object, and leading pointin view, and bring the application home to your own mind. OSTIACK BOY. A RUSSIAN was travelling from Tobolsk to Beresow. Onthe road, he stopped one might at the hut of an Ostiack. Inthe morning, on continuing his journey, he discovered thathe had lost his purse, containing about one hundred son of the Ostiack, a boy about fourteen years of age,found the purse while hunting deer ; but instead of takingit up, he went and told his father, who was equally unwillingto touch it, and ordered the boy to cover it with some few months after, the Russian returned, and stopped atthe same hut, but the Ostiack did not recognise him. Herelated the loss he had met with. The Ostiack listenedvery attentively ; and when he had finished, You arewelcome, said he; here is my son, who will show youthe spot where it lies; no hand has touched it, but the onewhich covered it, that you might recover what you hadlost. THE FROGS WHO DESIRED A KING. A THE commonwealth of Frogs, a discontented, vari-able race, weary of liberty, and fond of change,petitioned Jupiter to grant them a king. The good natured deity, in order to indulge theirrequest with as little mischief to the petitioners aspossible, threw them down a log. At first, theyregarded their new monarch with great reverence, andkept from him at a most respectful distance ; but per-ceiving his tame and peaceable disposition, they, bydegrees, ventured to approach him with more familiar- 134 HUMANE DRIVER REWARDED. ity, till, at length, they conceived for him the utmostcontempt. In this disposition they renewed their request toJupiter, and entreated him to bestow upon themanother king. The thunderer, in his wrath, sent themdown a Crane ; who no sooner took possession of hisnew dominions, than he began to devour his subjects,one after another, in a most capricious and tyrannicalmanner. They were now more dissatisfied than before ; when,applying to Jupiter a th
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