horn for a resting place.

   "You must be very glad to have me go now," he said.

   "It's all the same to me," replied the Bull. "I did not even know you were there."

   We are often of greater importance in our own eyes than in the eyes of our neighbor.

   The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

   Two Travellers, walking in the noonday sun, sought the shade of a widespreading tree to rest. As they lay looking up among the pleasant leaves, they saw that it was a Plane Tree.

   "How useless is the Plane!" said one of them. "It bears no fruit whatever, and only serves to litter the ground with leaves."

   "Ungrateful creatures!" said a voice from the Plane Tree. "You lie here in my cooling shade, and yet you say I am useless! Thus ungratefully, O Jupiter, do men receive their blessings!"

    Our best blessings are often the least appreciated.

   A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted. But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net.

   The Stork begged the Farmer to spare him.

   "Please let me go," he pleaded. "I belong to the Stork family who you know are honest and birds of good character. Besides, I did not know the Cranes were going to steal."

   "You may be a very good bird," answered the Farmer, "but I caught you with the thieving Cranes and you will have to share the same punishment with them."

   You are judged by the company you keep.

   One day a shepherd discovered a fat Pig in the meadow where his Sheep were pastured. He very quickly captured the porker, which squealed at the top of its voice the moment the Shepherd laid his hands on it. You would have thought, to hear the loud squealing, that the Pig was being cruelly hurt. But in spite of its squeals and struggles to escape, the Shepherd tucked his prize under his arm and started off to the butcher's in the market place.

   The Sheep 

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