FABLES. 



FORTUNE AND THE BOY. 



A School Boy, fatigued with play, laid himself 

 down by the brink of a deep well, where he fell fast 

 asleep. Fortune, whose wheel is always in motion, 

 passing by, kindly gave him a tap on the head, and 

 awoke him. My good boy, said she, arise and 

 depart from this dangerous situation immediately; 

 for if you had tumbled into this well, and been 

 drowned, your friends would not have attributed 

 the accident to your carelessness, but would have 

 laid the whole blame upon me. 



APPLICATION. 



MANKIND suffer more evils from their own im- 

 prudence, than from events which it is not in their 

 power to control; but they are ever ready to com- 

 plain of the perverseness of chance, and the 



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