FABLES. 



THE BROTHER AND SISTER. 



A certain man had two children, a Son and a 

 Daughter; the Boy very handsome, and the Girl 

 only moderately so. They were both young, and 

 happened to be one day playing near the looking- 

 glass, which stood on their mother's toilet. The 

 Boy, pleased with the novelty of the thing, viewed 

 himself for some time, and in a wanton roguish 

 manner, observed to the Girl how handsome he 

 was. She resented it, and could not bear the inso- 

 lent manner in which he spoke, for she understood 

 it (as how could she do otherwise?) to be intended 

 as a direct affront to her. Therefore she ran 

 immediately to her Father, and with a deal of 

 aggravation, complained of her brother, particu- 

 larly of his having acted so effeminate a part as to 

 look in a glass, and meddle with things which be- 

 longed to women only. The Father embraced them 



