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THE WILD AND THE TAME GEESE. 



A flock of Wild Geese and a parcel of Tame 

 ones used often to feed tog-ether in a corn field. 

 At last, the owner of the corn, with his servants, 

 coming upon them of a sudden, surprised them in 

 the very fact, and the Tame Geese being heavy, 

 and fat full-bodied creatures, were most of them 

 sufferers; but the wild ones being thin and light, 

 easily flew a\vay. 



APPLICATION. 



WHEN the enemy comes to make a seizure, they 

 are sure to suffer most whose circumstances are 

 the richest and fattest. In any case of persecu- 

 tion; money hangs like a dead weight about a 

 man; and we never feel gold so heavy as when 



