FABLES. 



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THE DOG AND THE SHADOW. 



A Dog, crossing a rivulet with a piece of flesh in 

 his mouth, saw his own shadow represented in the 

 clear mirror of the stream; and believing it to be 

 another Dog, who was carrying another piece of 

 flesh, he could not forbear catching at it; but was 

 so far from getting any thing by his greedy design, 

 that he dropt the piece he had in his mouth, which 

 immediately sunk to the bottom, and was irrecover- 

 ably lost. 



APPLICATION. 



Base is the man who pines amidst his store, 

 And fat with plenty, griping covets more. 



EXCESSIVE greediness, in the end, mostly misses 

 what it aims at, and he that catches at more than 



