FABLES. 



THE FORESTER AND THE LION. 



THE Forester meeting with the Lion one day, 

 they discoursed together for a while without much 

 differing in opinion. At last, a dispute happening 

 to arise about the point of superiority between a 

 Man and a Lion, the former wanting a better argu- 

 ment, shewed the latter a marble monument, on 

 which was placed the statue of a Man striding over 

 a vanquished Lion. If this, says the Lion, is all 

 you have to say for it, let us be the sculptors, and 

 we will make the Lion striding over the Man. 



APPLICATION. 



SUCH is the partiality of mankind in favour of 

 themselves and their own actions, that it is ex- 

 tremely difficult, nay almost impossible, to come at 



