. Picture fables . MILK-JUG AND WATER-PAIL. MILK-JUG, Water-pail, how can we two agree? What are you, pray, sir, compared to me ?Youd better be gone, to drudge about,For, if you stay, I shall turn you My dear little Jug, mind what you do ;Fine things are brittle, and so are you. The milk-jug thought always of his worth, He lookd so handsome upon the hearth ; But the cook she crackd him, which made him leak, And he lay on the dust-bin that very week ; But the plain old water-pail held his own Full three years after the jug fell down. 53 v» ;: - • •-- • ,£&&&:- .--. THE CAT IN T
. Picture fables . MILK-JUG AND WATER-PAIL. MILK-JUG, Water-pail, how can we two agree? What are you, pray, sir, compared to me ?Youd better be gone, to drudge about,For, if you stay, I shall turn you My dear little Jug, mind what you do ;Fine things are brittle, and so are you. The milk-jug thought always of his worth, He lookd so handsome upon the hearth ; But the cook she crackd him, which made him leak, And he lay on the dust-bin that very week ; But the plain old water-pail held his own Full three years after the jug fell down. 53 v» ;: - • •-- • ,£&&&:- .--. THE CAT IN THE SNOW PUSSY, you lift your paws so high,And look down on them so ruefully,To your neck almost you sink in the cold, is it not, down there to go?Would not your walking be better doneIf a pair of good stout boots youd on ? She didnt wear boots, our good little cat,But she marched on bravely, in spite of the snow she whiskd at the barn-door in;Where she shook, and she lickd her paws quite clean,And she caught no cold, but sprang merrily To the highest beam of the old root-tree. 54 •/.-•>•; A si -v. •- -• r - • • , :• w^
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