FABLES. 



THE COLLIER AND THE FULLER. 



THE Collier and the Euller being old acquaint- 

 ances, happened upon a time to meet together, and 

 the latter being but ill provided with a habitation, 

 was invited by the former to come and live in the 

 same house with him. I thank you my dear friend, 

 replied the Fuller, for your kind offer; but it can- 

 not be, for if I were to dwell with you, whatever I 

 should take pains to scour and make clean in the 

 morning, the dust of you and your coals would 

 blacken and defile before night. 



APPLICATION. 



IT is of no small importance in life to be cautious 

 what company we keep, and with whom we enter 

 into friendship; for though we are ever so well 

 disposed ourselves, and free from vice, yet if those 



