It's nothing that you need to mind."

     "I'll take your word," the wolf replied.

     "It's truth by me shall ne'er be tried;

     I'll have my liberty again,

     And you your collar and your chain."

     Our neighbors sometimes seem to be

     A vast deal better off than we;

     Yet seldom 'tis they really are,

     Since

      they

     have troubles too to bear,

     Which, if the truth were really known,

     Are quite as grievous as our own.

      A herdsman

     , who lived at a time and a place

     Which, should you not know, is but little disgrace,

     Discover'd one morning, on counting his stock,

     That a sheep had been stolen that night from the flock.

     "Oh, I wish I had caught ye,

      whoever ye be

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