Parables for school and home .. . ll have;If you will go with us, you shall have a share,If not, you shall have neither apple nor pear. * They spoke, and Tom pondered — I see they will go;Poor man! what a pity to injure him so!Poor man! I would save him his fruit if I could,But staying behind will do him no good. If the matter depended alone upon apples might hang till they dropped from the tree;But since they will take them, I think Ill go too,—He will lose none by me, though I get a few. His scruples thus silenced, Tom felt more at ease,And went with his comrades the apples to seize;H
Parables for school and home .. . ll have;If you will go with us, you shall have a share,If not, you shall have neither apple nor pear. * They spoke, and Tom pondered — I see they will go;Poor man! what a pity to injure him so!Poor man! I would save him his fruit if I could,But staying behind will do him no good. If the matter depended alone upon apples might hang till they dropped from the tree;But since they will take them, I think Ill go too,—He will lose none by me, though I get a few. His scruples thus silenced, Tom felt more at ease,And went with his comrades the apples to seize;He blamed and protested, but joined in the plan:He shared in the plunder, but pitied the man, Tom, you see, had a conscience; it was hiscaptain. It told him that to take his neighborsfruit was stealing. Tom would have obeyed ifhe had been let alone. But the mob came tohim, and he forgot his duty to his captain, andbegan to invent excuses for stealing in , as the old saying is, he followed the mul-titude to do William Shakspere. VI NAMES. WHAT do wc mean NAMES WHAT do we mean when we speak of aFrench language, an EngHsh language, aGerman language, and so on ? We mean that inFrance, England, and Germany people give dif-ferent names to the same thing. All these coun-tries have railroads, for example, but each onehas its own word for this sort of highway. Ifwe search in a French dictionary for Railroad,we cannot find it at all, either under the letterR or any other letter. It would, however, befoolish to conclude from this that there are norailroads in France. The French have the tilingalthough they give it another name. It is somewhat so even with places. On anItalian map of Italy you will look in vain for thecities which we call Rome, Naples, Florence,Leghorn, Venice, Milan, Genoa, Turin; on aGerman map of Germany for Munich, Mentz,Frankfort, Cologne, Hanover; on a Belgian mapof Belgium for Antwerp or Ghent; on a French53 54 SHAKSPERE map of France for Lyons
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