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And grew distraught with fears

Lest some might construe into horns that feature.

He sought the Grasshopper, his country neighbour:

"Adieu," said he, "my friend.

I'm off at once: I feel that in the end,

Under some false impeachment I shall labour:

My Ears will count as horns, you may depend.

Nay, even if I displayed 'em

Short as an Ostrich, 'twould be all the same;

Horns is their name!"

"Horns!" quoth his friend,—"they're Ears, as Heaven made 'em;

D'ye take me for a fool?"

"Horns they will be for all that," said the Hare,

"Plain as a Unicorn's by this new rule;

Protest nor prayer,

If I'm clapt up in jail, will serve me there."

(La Fontaine, Fables, Vol. V, No. 4. Translated by the Rev. Wm. Lucas Collins.)

PERT young Mouse to whom the world was new

&ensp;Had once a near escape, if all be true.

He told his mother, as I need tell you:

"I crossed the mountains that beyond us rise,

And, journeying onwards, bore me

As one who had a great career before me,

When lo! two creatures met my wondering eyes—

The one of gracious mien, benign and mild;