FABLKS. 



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THE FOX AND THE GRAPHS. 



A hungry Fox coming" into a vineyard where 

 there hung delicious clusters of ripe Grapes, his 

 mouth watered to be at them : but they were nailed 

 up to a trellis so high, that with all his springing 

 and leaping he could not reach a single bunch. At 

 last, growing tired and disappointed, Let who will 

 take them! says he, they are but green and sour; 

 so I'll e'en let them alone. 



APPLICATION. 



To affect to despise that which they have long 

 ineffectually laboured to obtain, is the only conso- 

 lation to which weak minds can have recourse, both 

 to palliate their inability, and to take off the bitter- 

 ness of disappointment. There is a strange pro- 

 pensity in mankind to this temper, and there is a 



