FABLES. 



THE FATAL MARRIAGE. 



A Mouse being ambitious of marrying into a 

 noble family, paid his addresses to a young Lioness, 

 and at length succeeded in entering into a treaty of 

 marriage with her. When the day Appointed for 

 the nuptials arrived, the bridegroom set out in a 

 transport of joy to meet his beloved bride; and 

 coming up to her, passionately threw himself at her 

 feet; but she, like a giddy thing as she was, not 

 minding how she walked, accidentally set her foot 

 upon her little spouse, and crushed him to death. 



APPLICATION. 



IT is very unsafe for persons of low estate to form 

 connections with those of a very superior situation. 

 When wealthy persons of mean extraction and un- 

 refined education, as an equivalent for their money, 



