Aesop's fables . ersing with a Nightingale, advised^^^- her to quit the leafy coverts where she made herhome, and to come and live with men, like herself, andnest under the shelter of their roofs. But the Nightingalereplied, Time was when I too, like yourself, livedamong men : but the memory of the cruel wrongs I thensuffered makes them hateful to me, and never again willI approach their dwellings. The scene of past sufferings revivespainful memories. 223 THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A TRAVELLER, exhausted with fatigue after a longjourney, sank down at the very brink of a deepwell and presently f
Aesop's fables . ersing with a Nightingale, advised^^^- her to quit the leafy coverts where she made herhome, and to come and live with men, like herself, andnest under the shelter of their roofs. But the Nightingalereplied, Time was when I too, like yourself, livedamong men : but the memory of the cruel wrongs I thensuffered makes them hateful to me, and never again willI approach their dwellings. The scene of past sufferings revivespainful memories. 223 THE TRAVELLER AND FORTUNE A TRAVELLER, exhausted with fatigue after a longjourney, sank down at the very brink of a deepwell and presently fell asleep. He was within an aceof falling in, when Dame Fortune appeared to himand touched him on the shoulder, cautionmg him tomove further away. Wake up, good sir, I pray you,she said; had you fallen into the well, the blamewould have been thrown not on your own folly but onme, Fortune.* CHILDRENS ROUM Printed by BALLANTYNE & COMPANY LTD ATIHE BALLANTYNE PRESS Tavistock Street Covent Garden London —>^.
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