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(22) tried: and whilst the operation was, the Fox, with a sarcastic smile, this useful maxim in the Wolf's ear—you would be safe from harm yourself,  for the future not to meditate mischief  others.

The Lion, the Bear, the Monkey, & the

HE Tyrant of the forest issued a, commanding all his to repair immediately to his royal. Among the rest the Bear made his ; but pretending to be offended the steams which issued from the  appartments, he was imprudent enough  hold his nose in his majesty's presence. insolence was so highly resented, that Lion in a rage laid him dead at his. The Monkey, observing what had trembled for his carcase; and attempted  conciliate favour by the most abject. He began with protesting, that for his he thought the apartments were  with Arabian spices; and exclaiming  the rudeness of the Bear, admired the  of his majesty's paws, so happily  he said, to correct the insolence of. This fulsome adulation, instead of being as he expected, proved no less