Attended, for she knew his voice.

     Then what the lion's utmost strength

     Could not effect, she did at length:

     With patient labor she applied

     Her teeth, the net-work to divide;

     And so at last forth issued he,

     A

      lion

     , by a mouse set free.

     Few are so small or weak, I guess,

     But may assist us in distress;

     Nor shall we ever, if we're wise,

     The meanest, or the least, despise.

     "

      There

     lived," says friend Esop, "some ages ago,

     An ass who had feelings acute, you must know;

     This ass to be jealous, felt strongly inclined,

     And for reasons which follow, felt hurt in his mind."

     It seems that his master, as I understand,

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