. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . LXXVm. 161 T^. THE ANGLER AND THE LITTLE FISH. A. MAN was angling in a river, and caught asmall Perch; which, as he was taking off thehook and going to put into his basket, openedits mouth, and began to implore his pity, beg-ging that he would throw it into the river the mans demanding what reason he hadto expect such a favour?—Why, says theFish, because, at present, I am but young andlittle, and consequently not so well worth yourwhile as I shall be, if you take me some timehence, v/hen I am gr
. Æsop's fables : with upwards of one hundred and fifty emblematical devices . LXXVm. 161 T^. THE ANGLER AND THE LITTLE FISH. A. MAN was angling in a river, and caught asmall Perch; which, as he was taking off thehook and going to put into his basket, openedits mouth, and began to implore his pity, beg-ging that he would throw it into the river the mans demanding what reason he hadto expect such a favour?—Why, says theFish, because, at present, I am but young andlittle, and consequently not so well worth yourwhile as I shall be, if you take me some timehence, v/hen I am grown larger.— That maybe, replies the man, but I am not one of thosefools who (fuit a certainty, in expectation of anuncertainty. APPLICATION. This fable points much the same way as theseventy-sixth, so that one moral may very wellserve for both. But the lesson they teach is souseful and instructive, that a repetition of it is 162 FABLE LXXVIII. by no means superfluous. The precept whichthey would instil into us is, never to let slip thepresent opportunity, but to secure to ourselvesevery little
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