FABLES. 



THE FOX AND THE STORK. 



THE Eox invited the Stork to dinner, and, being* 

 disposed to divert himself at the expense of his 

 guest, provided nothing for the entertainment but 

 soup, which he served up in a wide shallow dish. 

 This the Fox could lap up with a great deal of 

 ease; but the Stork, who could but just dip in the 

 point of his bill, was not a bit the better for his 

 entertainment. However, a few days after, he re- 

 turned the compliment, and invited the Fox; but 

 suffered nothing to be brought to table excepting 

 some minced meat in a glass jar, the neck of which 

 was so deep, and so narrow, that, though the Stork 

 with his long bill made a shift to fill his belly, all 

 that the Fox, who was very hungry, could do, was 

 to lick the brims as the Stork slabbered them with 

 his eating. Reynard was heartily vexed at first; 



