Boruck and Waterman upon their grills In Hades lay, with many a sigh and groan, Hotly disputing, for each swore his own Were clearly keener than the other’s ills. And, truly, each had much to boast of–bone And sinew, muscle, tallow, nerve and skin, Blood in the vein and marrow in the shin, Teeth, eyes […]

A Wolf, who in devouring a man had choked himself with a bunch of keys, asked an ostrich to put her head down his throat and pull them out, which she did. “I suppose,” said the Wolf, “you expect payment for that service.” “A kind act,” replied the Ostrich, “is its own reward; I have […]

Some Pigeons exposed to the attacks of a Kite asked a Hawk to defend them. He consented, and being admitted into the cote waited for the Kite, whom he fell upon and devoured. When he was so surfeited that he could scarcely move, the grateful Pigeons scratched out his eyes.

[The Chronicle did a great public service in whipping —- and his fellow-rascals out of office.–M.H. de Young’s Newspaper.] What! you whip rascals?–you, whose gutter blood Bears, in its dark, dishonorable flood, Enough of prison-birds’ prolific germs To serve a whole eternity of terms? You, for whose back the rods and cudgels strove Ere yet […]

A Famishing Wolf, passing the door of a cottage in the forest, heard a Mother say to her babe: “Be quiet, or I will throw you out of the window, and the wolves will get you.” So he waited all day below the window, growing more hungry all the time. But at night the Old […]

A Lion roaming through the forest, got a thorn in his foot, and, meeting a Shepherd, asked him to remove it. The Shepherd did so, and the Lion, having just surfeited himself on another shepherd, went away without harming him. Some time afterward the Shepherd was condemned on a false accusation to be cast to […]

A Fawn said to its father: “You are larger, stronger, and more active than a dog, and you have sharp horns. Why do you run away when you hear one barking?” “Because, my child,” replied the Buck, “my temper is so uncertain that if I permit one of those noisy creatures to come into my […]

A hen who had patiently hatched out a brood of vipers, was accosted by a Swallow, who said: “What a fool you are to give life to creatures who will reward you by destroying you.” “I am a little bit on the destroy myself,” said the Hen, tranquilly swallowing one of the little reptiles; “and […]

In that fair city by the inland sea, Where Blaine unhived his Presidential bee, Frank Pixley’s meeting with George Gorham sing, Celestial muse, and what events did spring From the encounter of those mighty sons Of thunder, and of slaughter, and of guns. Great Gorham first, his yearning tooth to sate And give him stomach […]

“Why should there be strife between us?” said the Wolves to the Sheep. “It is all owing to those quarrelsome dogs. Dismiss them, and we shall have peace.” “You seem to think,” replied the Sheep, “that it is an easy thing to dismiss dogs. Have you always found it so?”

Especially should we be thankful for having escaped the ravages of the yellow scourge by which our neighbors have been so sorely afflicted.–Governor Stoneman’s Thanksgiving Proclamation. Be pleased, O Lord, to take a people’s thanks That Thine avenging sword has spared our ranks– That Thou hast parted from our lips the cup And forced our […]

A Swallow who had built her nest in a court of justice reared a fine family of young birds. One day a Snake came out of a chink in the wall and was about to eat them. The Just Judge at once issued an injunction, and making an order for their removal to his own […]

A Lion was about to attack a braying Ass, when a Cock near by crowed shrilly, and the Lion ran away. “What frightened him?” the Ass asked. “Lions have a superstitious terror of my voice,” answered the Cock, proudly. “Well, well, well,” said the Ass, shaking his head; “I should think that any animal that […]

I Sharon, ambitious of immortal shame, Fame’s dead-wall daubed with his illustrious name– Served in the Senate, for our sins, his time, Each word a folly and each vote a crime; Law for our governance well skilled to make By knowledge gained in study how to break; Yet still by the presiding eye ignored, Which […]

Pennoyer, Governor of Oregon, Casting to South his eye across the bourne Of his dominion (where the Palmiped, With leathers ‘twixt his toes, paddles his marsh, Amphibious) saw a rising cloud of hats, And heard a faint, far sound of distant cheers Below the swell of the horizon. “Lo,” Cried one, “the President! the President!” […]

A Certain rich man reared a Goose and a Swan, the one for his table, the other because she was reputed a good singer. One night when the Cook went to kill the Goose he got hold of the Swan instead. Thereupon the Swan, to induce him to spare her life, began to sing; but […]

A Weary Traveller who had lain down and fallen asleep on the brink of a deep well was discovered by Dame Fortune. “If this fool,” she said, “should have an uneasy dream and roll into the well men would say that I did it. It is painful to me to be unjustly accused, and I […]

Two Game Cocks, having fought a battle, the defeated one skulked away and hid, but the victor mounted a wall and crowed lustily. This attracted the attention of a hawk, who said: “Behold! how pride goeth before a fall.” So he swooped down upon the boasting bird and was about to destroy him, when the […]

O never an oathe sweares he, And never a pig-taile jerkes; With a brick-batte he ne lurkes For to buste y’e crust, perdie, Of y’e man from over sea, A-synging as he werkes. For he knows ful well, y’s youth, A tricke of exceeding worth: And he plans withouten ruth A conflagration’s birth!

A Farmer who had a deadly and implacable hatred against a certain Fox, caught him and tied some tow to his tail; then carrying him to the centre of his own grain-field, set the tow on fire and let the animal go. “Alas!” said the Farmer, seeing the result; “if that grain had not been […]