FABLES. 



THE YOUNG MAN AND THE SWALLOW. 



A prodigal thoughtless Young Man, who had 

 wasted his whole patrimony in taverns and gaming- 

 houses, among his lewd idle companions, was 

 taking a melancholy walk near a brook. It was 

 in the spring, while the hills were yet capped with 

 snow, but it happened to be one of those clear 

 sunny days which sometimes occur at that time of 

 the year; and to make appearances the more flat- 

 tering, a Swallow which had been invited forth by 

 the warmth, flew skimming along upon the surface 

 of the water. The Youth observing this, concluded 

 that the summer was now come, and that he should 

 have little or no occasion for clothes, so went and 

 pawned them, and ventured the money for one 

 stake more, among his sharping associates. When 

 this too was gone, like all the rest of his property, 

 he took another solitary walk in the same place as 



