FABLES. 



THE APE AND HER YOUNG ONES. 



AN Ape having two young ones, was dotingly 

 fond of one, but disregarded and slighted the other. 

 One day she chanced to be surprized by the hun- 

 ters, and had much ado to get off. However, she 

 did not forget her favourite young one, which she 

 took up in her arms, that it might be the more 

 secure: the other, which she neglected, by natural 

 instinct, leapt upon her back, and so away they 

 scampered together; but it unluckily fell out, in the 

 over-anxiety of her precipitate flight, confused and 

 blinded with haste, that she struck her favourite's 

 head against a branch, which threw it on the 

 ground, where the darling bantling was seized by 

 the dogs and killed. The hated one, clinging close 

 to her rough back, escaped all the danger of the 

 pursuit. 



