FABLES. 



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HERCULES AND THE CARTER. 



As a clownish Fellow was driving his cart along 

 a deep miry lane, the wheels stuck so fast in the 

 clay, that his horses could not draw it out. Upon 

 this he fell a bawling and praying to Hercules to 

 come and help him. Hercules, looking down from 

 a cloud, bid him not lie there like an idle dastardly 

 looby as he was, but get up and whip his horses, 

 and clap his shoulder stoutly to the wheel, adding 

 that this was the only way for him to obtain assist- 

 ance. 



APPLICATION. 



THE man who sits down at his ease, and prays 

 to Heaven to have all his wants supplied, and his 

 wishes accomplished, by a miracle wrought in his 

 favour, without, using his own exertions and honest 



