IQ2 FABLES. 



replies the Wolf, you are a rascal, and I have been 

 told that you used ill language concerning me 

 behind my back, about half a year ago. Upon my 

 word, says the Lamb, the time you mention was 

 before I was born. The Wolf, finding it to no pur- 

 pose to argue any longer against truth, fell into a 

 great passion, snarling and foaming at the mouth 

 as if he had been mad; and drawing near to the 

 Lamb, Sirrah, says he, if it were not you, it was 

 your father, and that is the same. So he seized the 

 poor innocent helpless thing, tore it to pieces, and 

 made a meal of it. 



APPLICATION. 



Where'er oppression rules, fell Wolves devour; 



And the worst crimes are want of strength and pow'r. 



THEY who do not feel the sentiments of humanity, 

 will seldom listen to the voice of reason ; and when 

 cruelty and injustice are armed with power, and 

 determined on oppression, the strongest pleas of 

 innocence are preferred in vain, and nothing is 

 more easy than finding pretences to criminate the 

 unsuspecting victims of tyranny. How many of 

 the degenerate, corrupt, and arbitrary governments 

 with which the civilized world has been disfigured, 

 have exercised their vengeance upon the honest 

 and virtuous, who have dared in bad times to 

 speak the truth; and how many men in private life 

 are to be met with, whose wolfish dispositions, and 

 envious and rapacious tempers cannot bear to see 

 honest industry rear its head ! 



