2 yo FABLES. 



industry, which is crowned with health and vigour, 

 and I am constantly held up as an example of 

 prudence and foresight. I provide for present 

 comforts and future wants, and court not the favors, 

 nor dread the frowns of any one; while your lazi- 

 ness and vanity make you a beggarly intruder 

 wherever you hope to get a present supply. You 

 may, perhaps, sip honey one day, but on the next 

 you batten on carrion ; and having propagated a 

 numerous progeny, equally as noxious and useless 

 as yourself, I then behold you from my comfortable, 

 warm, well-stored mansion, in the winter of your 

 days, starving to death with hunger and cold. 



APPLICATION. 



THE worthless part of mankind, who pass through 

 the world without being of any service in it, and 

 without acquiring the least reputation, seldom fail 

 of adding empty pride to all their other failings, 

 and behave with arrogance towards those who con- 

 tribute to the comforts and happiness of society. 

 They treat industrious persons as wretched drudges, 

 appointed to labour for a poor subsistence, while 

 they think themselves entitled to enjoy all the good 

 things of this life, though they of all others least 

 deserve them. But the worthy and industrious will 

 generally find that the pride and extravagance of 

 these idle flies, bring them at last to shame, if not 

 to want, while their own honest labours secure a 

 good name, a happy mind, and a sufficiency for 

 their wants, if not a state of affluence. In short, 

 no one is a better gentleman than he whose own 

 honest industry supplies him with all necessaries, 

 and who pretends to no more acquaintance with 

 honour than never to say or do a mean or an 

 unjust thing. 



