title="[11]"/>away, and very often they even try to kill me; and yet I am handsome and graceful to look at. The yellow color on my body is as bright as yours, and my shape is very fine.”

“That is quite true,” answered the Canary; “but when men come to see me I treat them to a merry song, while you attack them with your sting.”

As you treat others, others will treat you.

“Why does no one play with me, while every one plays with you?” asked a cross boy, one day, of his brother.

“Because I give up to my playfellows, and you beat and abuse them.”

THE QUARREL AMONG THE BEASTS.

One day the Lion and Tiger fell out. The other beasts stood at a distance, in affright, to see the quarrel between the king of beasts and the mighty Tiger. As for the Fox he got as far out of the way as ever he could. But a poor foolish little Fawn, that was always running away from its mother’s side, said, “I will make them friends again;” and wanted to run up to them.

“You had better stay where you are, my young friend,” said Reynard.

But the little Fawn would not listen to this good advice. He trotted up to the Lion, and wanted to whisper in his ear; but a blow, aimed by the angry king of the beasts at the Tiger, struck the poor Fawn, and in a moment he lay dead at the Lion’s feet.

“I thought so,” said the Fox, as he walked off to a still safer distance. “Those who meddle in the quarrels of the unruly are sure to come badly off.”

This fable teaches us that we should keep away from the company of those who love strife and fighting.

THE DOG WITH HIS MASTER’S DINNER.

A Dog had been taught to carry his Master’s dinner in a basket, every day, to the place where he worked. He was an honest dog, and never stole a single bit of it. But one day, as he came along, a great number of thievish dogs were waiting for him. They fell upon him all together, snatched the basket from him, and began to eat up the dinner as fast as ever they could. The poor Dog tried to defend his basket as long as he could; but he had no chance at all among such a number of foes. At last he said to himself, “Well, if the dinner must be stolen, I may just as well have my share too;” and he began to eat just as fast as the rest. In a minute or two all the dinner was eaten, and the Dog’s hungry Master, who was working in the field, waited for it in vain.

Did this Dog do right in eating of the dinner? No. For if others do wrong, that is no reason why we should do wrong too.