. Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons . natures self in every land implanted. Lex Talionis is its Latin name;But if an English term be wanted, Give your next neighbour but a pat,Hell give you back as good, and tell yoa—titfor tat. This tit for tat, it seems, not men alone,But Elephants, for legal justice own ;In proof of this a story 1 shall tell ye,Imported from the famous town of Delhi. A mighty f^lephaut that swelld the stateOf Aureugzebe the Great,One day was taken by his
. Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened : consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons . natures self in every land implanted. Lex Talionis is its Latin name;But if an English term be wanted, Give your next neighbour but a pat,Hell give you back as good, and tell yoa—titfor tat. This tit for tat, it seems, not men alone,But Elephants, for legal justice own ;In proof of this a story 1 shall tell ye,Imported from the famous town of Delhi. A mighty f^lephaut that swelld the stateOf Aureugzebe the Great,One day was taken by his driverTo drink and cool him in the river jThe driver on his back was seated,And as he rode along,By some acquaintance in the throng,With a ripe cocoa-nut was treated. A cocoa-nuts a pretty fruit guarded by a shell both hard and toughThe fellow tried, and tried, and and sweating,Pishing and find out its inside,And pick the kernel for his eating. At length, quite out of patience grown,??• Wholl reach me up (he cries; a stoneIo break this plaguy shell ?But stay, Ive here a solid boneMay do perhaps as TIT FOR TAT. 189 So half in earnest, half in jest,He bangd it on the forehead of his beast. An Elephant, thev say, has human feeling, And full as well as we he knows The diffrence between words and blows,Between horse-plaj and civil dealing, Use him but well hell do his best,And serve you faithfully and truly ; But insults unprovokd he cant studies oer them, and repays them duly. To make my head an anvil (thought the creature) Was never, certainly, the will of Nature ;So, master mine, you may repent: Then, shaking his broad ears, away he went:The driver took him to the thought no more about the matter; But Elephant within his memory hid it ; He felt the wrong—-the other only did it. A week or two elapsd, one market dayAgain the beast and driver took their way : Through rows of shops and booths they passJ,With eatabl
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