ROCK A BYE LIBRARY.
A BOOK OF FABLES
AMUSEMENT FOR GOOD LITTLE CHILDREN.
TAGGARD & THOMPSON, 29 CORNHILL, BOSTON.Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1859, by S. A.Chandler, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of Mass.
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THE FOX AND THE COCK.
A Fox, one day, saw a Cock on the roof of a barn. “Come to me, my dearMaster Cock,” said he; “I have always heard you are such a cleverfellow; and I want to ask you a riddle.” Glad to hear himself praised,the foolish Cock came down, and the Fox caught him, and ate him in amoment.
The praise of the wicked is always dangerous.
THE GIANT AND THE DWARF.
A Dwarf one day met a Giant. “Let me come with you,” said he.
“Very well,” said the Giant.
When they met robbers, the Giant beat them with his club; but theDwarf got beaten. At last he began to cry; but the Giant said, “Mylittle man, if you are not strong you must not go out to battle with aGiant.”
We must not set ourselves up as equal to people who are greater andwiser than we.
THE PARTRIDGE AND HER YOUNG.
A Partridge lived in a corn-field. “Mother,” said one of her Chicks,“we must run away from this field; for I heard the owner say ‘I willask my neighbors to mow that field to-morrow.’” The Partridge said“Never mind.”—“But,” said another Chick, “I since heard him say ‘Iwill mow the field myself.’”—“Then,” said the Partridge, “we mustindeed run away; for this man is going to do his own work.”
THE COCK AND THE JEWEL.
As a Cock was scratching up the straw, in a farm-yard, in search offood for the hens, he hit upon a Jewel that by some chance had foundits way there. “Ho!” said he, “you are a very fine thing, no doubt, tothose who prize you; but give me a barley-corn