FABLES. 



THE LARK AND HER YOUNG ONES. 



A Lark who had Young Ones in a field of corn 

 nearly ripe, was under some fear lest the reapers 

 should come and cut it down before her young- 

 brood were fledged, and able to remove from the 

 place ; wherefore, when she flew abroad in the 

 morning to seek food for them, she charged them 

 to listen to what the Farmer said about shearing. 

 On her return, her young family opened all their 

 little throats at once, to inform her that the Farmer 

 had sent to his neighbours to reap the corn the 

 next morning. Is that all? said the old Lark, then 

 there is no danger. When she went abroad again 

 the next morning, she left the same instructions as 

 before. At night, she found her Young Ones more 

 alarmed than at first; for the Farmer had applied 

 to his friends, earnestly requesting them to begin 

 the harvest the next day. She received this intel- 



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