This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...to defend himself, that even children durst laugh at him, and use him ill. This, he thought, was a great hardship; and he, therefore, very earnestly besought Jupiter to mend it, by causing strong and sharp horns to grow upon his head. The god, indignant that a beast, who was truly of the Ass's kind, and fit for nothing ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...to defend himself, that even children durst laugh at him, and use him ill. This, he thought, was a great hardship; and he, therefore, very earnestly besought Jupiter to mend it, by causing strong and sharp horns to grow upon his head. The god, indignant that a beast, who was truly of the Ass's kind, and fit for nothing but to drudge under heavy burthens, was so presumptuous as to think that he deserved a power of doing hurt to, and killing other beasts and men, found that the beauty of his head--for he had ears that were very graceful and becoming--had made him thus insolent and silly: he, therefore, deprived him of his ears; and, thus disfigured, sent him away, with these words: --" Get thee gone; and bear in patience the burthens that men shall think fit to lay upon thee; and learn, that thou, who art fit for nothing else, and worthy of no higher station, hast justly lost thy beautiful ears, that were the occasion of thy folly." FABLE LXXXI. Wbt iHiser an& &fe treasure. From Dodslky. A Miser having scraped together a considerable sum of money, by denying himself the common conveniences of life, was much embarrassed where to lodge it most securely. After many debates with himself, he at length fixed upon a corner, in a retired field, where he deposited his Treasure, in a hole, which he dug for that purpose. His mind was now, for a moment, at ease; but he had not proceeded many paces, on his way home, when all his anxiety returned, and he could not forbear going back, to see that every thing was safe. This he repeated so often, that he was, at last, observed by a man, who was looking over a hedge in an adjacent meadow. The fellow, concluding that something extraordinary must be the occasion of the frequent visits, marked the spot; and, comi...
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