Fae moral reflection by Mira. Nov. 23. 
pillar fhews evident signs of great torture, whileits in- 
trails are devouring, it seldom dies, till the time the 
young ichneumons. are arrived at the period of their 
change into the chrysalis state. It sometimes, how- 
ever, happens that there are more of the ichneumon 
Jarve than the caterpillar can support the required time, 
in which case the whole family fall a prey to hunger. 
MORAL REFLECTION BY MIRA. 
For the Bee. 
‘THERE are some people whom you cannot regard 
though they seem desirous to oblige you; nay, even 
though they do you actual services. This is the 
case wherever their sentiments are too widely dif. 
erent from your own. Thus, a person truly avarici- 
ous can never make himself perfectly agreeable to one 
enamoured with the arts and sciences. A person 
of exquisite sensibility and tendernefs can never be 
truly. pleased with another of no feelings, who car 
see the most intimate of his friends or kindred ex- 
pire without any greater pain, than if he beheld a 
pitcher broken. These, properly speaking, can be 
said to feel nothing but the point of a sword; and 
one could more easily pardon them, ifthis apathy were 
the effect of philosophy, and not the want of thought ; 
but with tempers thus different, one {hould never at- _ 
tempt any close connection. Yet it may be a point of 
prudence to fhow them civility, and allow them a tole- 
ration totheir various propensities. Toconverse much 
with them, would not only be painful, but tend toin- 
jure your own disposition ; and to aim at their ap-, 
plause, would only make your chatacter inconsistent. 
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