rceiving it loiter on a bed of violets. But the fickle
Fly, continually changing one blossom for another, still eluded
his attempts. At length, observing it half buried in the cup of a
tulip, he rushed forward, and snatching it with violence, crushed
it all to pieces.

MORAL.

Pleasure, like the Butterfly,
Will still elude as we draw nigh;
And when we think we hold it fast,
Will, like the insect, breathe its last.

FABLE CVII.

THE CROW AND THE PITCHER.

A Crow, ready to die with thirst, flew with joy to a Pitcher,
which he beheld at some distance. When he came he found water in
it, indeed, but so near the bottom that, with all his stooping
and straining, he was not able to reach it. Then he endeavoured
to overturn the Pitcher, that so at least he might be able to get
a little of it. But his strength was not sufficient for this. At
last, seeing some pebbles lie near the place, he cast them one by
one into the Pitcher; and thus, by degrees, raised the water up
to the very brim, and satisfied his thirst.

MORAL.

Necessity is the mother of invention, and that which cannot be
accomplished by strength may be achieved by ingenuity.

[Illustration: WHERE THERE IS A WILL, THERE IS A WAY.]

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