not help yourself."
So the Carter helped himself to so many of the most valuable goods

that the horses easily ran away with the remainder.
The Lion and the Bull

A LION wishing to lure a Bull to a place where it would be safe to
attack him, said: "My friend, I have killed a fine sheep; will you

come with me and partake of the mutton?"
"With pleasure," said the Bull, "as soon as you have refreshed

yourself a little for the journey. Pray have some grass."
The Man and his Goose

"SEE these valuable golden eggs," said a Man that owned a Goose.
"Surely a Goose which can lay such eggs as those must have a gold

mine inside her."
So he killed the Goose and cut her open, but found that she was

just like any other goose. Moreover, on examining the eggs that
she had laid he found they were just like any other eggs.

The Wolf and the Feeding Goat
A WOLF saw a Goat feeding at the summit of a rock, where he could

not get at her.
"Why do you stay up there in that sterile place and go hungry?"

said the Wolf. "Down here where I am the broken-bottle vine cometh
up as a flower, the celluloid collar blossoms as the rose, and the

tin-can tree brings forth after its kind."
"That is true, no doubt," said the Goat, "but how about the circus-

poster crop? I hear that it failed this year down there."
The Wolf, perceiving that he was being chaffed, went away and

resumed his duties at the doors of the poor.
Jupiter and the Birds

JUPITER commanded all the birds to appear before him, so that he
might choose the most beautiful to be their king. The ugly

jackdaw, collecting all the fine feathers which had fallen from the
other birds, attached them to his own body and appeared at the

examination, looking very gay. The other birds, recognising their
own borrowed plumage, indignantly protested, and began to strip

him.
"Hold!" said Jupiter; "this self-made bird has more sense than any

of you. He is your king."
The Lion and the Mouse

A LION who had caught a Mouse was about to kill him, when the Mouse
said:

"If you will spare my life, I will do as much for you some day."
The Lion, good-naturedly let him go. It happened shortly

afterwards that the Lion was caught by some hunters and bound with
cords. The Mouse, passing that way, and seeing that his benefactor

was helpless, gnawed off his tail.
The Old Man and His Sons

AN Old Man, afflicted with a family of contentious Sons, brought in
a bundle of sticks and asked the young men to break it. After

repeated efforts they confessed that it could not be done.
"Behold," said the Old Man, "the advantage of unity; as long as

these sticks are in alliance they are invincible, but observe how
feeble they are individually."

Pulling a single stick from the bundle, he broke it easily upon the
head of the eldest Son, and this he repeated until all had been

served.
The Crab and His Son

A LOGICAL Crab said to his Son, "Why do you not walk straight
forward? Your sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful."

"Why don't you walk straight forward yourself," said the Son.
"Erring youth," replied the Logical Crab, "you are introducing new

and irrelevant matter."
The North Wind and the Sun

THE Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful,
and agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner

strip a traveller of his clothes. So they waited until a traveller
came by. But the traveller had been indiscreet enough to stay over

night at a summer hotel, and had no clothes.
The Mountain and the Mouse

A MOUNTAIN was in labour, and the people of seven cities had
assembled to watch its movements and hear its groans. While they

waited in breathless expectancy out came a Mouse.
"Oh, what a baby!" they cried in derision.

"I may be a baby," said the Mouse, gravely, as he passed outward
through the forest of shins, "but I know tolerably well how to

diagnose a volcano."
The Bellamy and the Members

THE Members of a body of Socialists rose in insurrection against
their Bellamy.

"Why," said they, "should we be all the time tucking you out with
food when you do nothing to tuck us out?"

So, resolving to take no further action, they went away, and
looking backward had the satisfaction to see the Bellamy compelled

to sell his own book.
OLD SAWS WITH NEW TEETH

CERTAIN ANCIENT FABLES APPLIED TO
THE LIFE OF OUR TIMES

The Wolf and the Crane
A RICH Man wanted to tell a certain lie, but the lie was of such

monstrous size that it stuck in his throat; so he employed an
Editor to write it out and publish it in his paper as an editorial.

But when the Editor presented his bill, the Rich Man said:
"Be content - is it nothing that I refrained from advising you

about investments?"
The Lion and the Mouse

A JUDGE was awakened by the noise of a lawyer prosecuting a Thief.
Rising in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life

imprisonment when the latter said:
"I beg that you will set me free, and I will some day requite your

kindness."
Pleased and flattered to be bribed, although by nothing but an

empty promise, the Judge let him go. Soon afterward he found that
it was more than an empty promise, for, having become a Thief, he

was himself set free by the other, who had become a Judge.
The Hares and the Frogs

THE Members of a Legislature, being told that they were the meanest
thieves in the world, resolved to commitsuicide. So they bought

shrouds, and laying them in a convenient place prepared to cut
their throats. While they were grinding their razors some Tramps

passing that way stole the shrouds.
"Let us live, my friends," said one of the Legislators to the

others; "the world is better than we thought. It contains meaner
thieves than we."

The Belly and the Members
SOME Workingmen employed in a shoe factory went on a strike,

saying: "Why should we continue to work to feed and clothe our
employer when we have none too much to eat and wear ourselves?"

The Manufacturer, seeing that he could get no labour for a long
time and finding the times pretty hard anyhow, burned down his shoe

factory for the insurance, and when the strikers wanted to resume
work there was no work to resume. So they boycotted a tanner.

The Piping Fisherman
AN Editor who was always vaunting the purity, enterprise, and

fearlessness of his paper was pained to observe that he got no
subscribers. One day it occurred to him to stop saying that his

paper was pure and enterprising and fearless, and make it so. "If
these are not good qualities," he reasoned, "it is folly to claim

them."