Old Friends in a New Dress

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Excerpt from Old Friends in a New Dress: Or, Familiar Fables in Verse, With Several Copper Plates To cross the brook, a single plank Was simply laid from bank to bank, And, as he past alone, He saw his shadow at his feet, Which seem'd another dog, with meat Much better than his own. Ah, ha! thought he, as no one spies, If I could make this piece my prize, I should be double winner: So made a snatch, when, sad to tell! His own piece in the water fell, And thus he lost his dinner. The fable which above you see, To greedy folks must useful be, And suits those to a tittle, Who long for what they can't obtain, 'Tis sure far wiser to remain Contented with a little. Fable II. The Fox and the Crow. The dairy window strew'd with cheesy A Crow, by instinct led, Dar'd, for its young, a piece to size, Who waited to be fed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.