FABLES. 



2QI 



THE LION AND THE FRCXf. 



THE Lion hearing an odd kind of hollow voice, 

 and seeing nobody, started up: he listened again, 

 and hearing the noise repeated, he trembled and 

 quaked for fear. At last, seeing a Erog crawl out 

 of the lake, and finding that the noise he had 

 heard was nothing but the croaking of that little 

 creature, he went up to it with great anger ; but 

 checking himself, turned away from it, ashamed of 

 his own timidity. 



APPLICATION. 



THE early prejudices of a wrong education can 

 only be eradicated from the strongest minds. The 

 weak retain them through life. This Eable is a 

 pretty image of the vain fears and empty terrors, 

 with which our weak misguided nature is so apt 

 to be alarmed and disturbed. If we hear but ever 

 so little noise which we are not able to account for, 



