3t')0 FABLES. 



it asunder. Yes, said the Cock, I can guess what 

 kind of a visit you intended to pay me, and will 

 fetch you the proper assistance immediately. He 

 then hastened and told the Farmer, who instantly 

 went to the place, and knocked the Fox on the 

 head. 



APPLICATION. 



WHEN the innocent fall into misfortune, it is the 

 part of a generous and brave spirit to contribute 

 as far as possible to their relief; and there is no 

 quality of mind more amiable than that of tenderly 

 feeling for the distressed : but we ought not to let 

 our compassion flow out upon improper objects, 

 lest we may, by saving a villain, be doing an act 

 of injustice to the community. When wicked men 

 are entrapped in their own pernicious schemes, 

 and laid hold of by the arm of justice, it is a 

 misplaced lenity to endeavour to screen or protect 

 them from it, as by letting them loose to continue 

 their depredations, we become the advocates for 

 their crimes, and in some degree partakers in their 

 enormities. 



