r sidelong gait is singularly ungraceful."

"Why don't you walk straight forward yourself," said the Son.

"Erring youth," replied the Logical Crab, "you are introducing new and
irrelevant matter."

The North Wind and the Sun

The Sun and the North Wind disputed which was the more powerful, and
agreed that he should be declared victor who could the sooner strip a
traveller of his clothes. So they waited until a traveller came by. But
the traveller had been indiscreet enough to stay over night at a summer
hotel, and had no clothes.

The Mountain and the Mouse

A Mountain was in labour, and the people of seven cities had assembled to
watch its movements and hear its groans. While they waited in breathless
expectancy out came a Mouse.

"Oh, what a baby!" they cried in derision.

"I may be a baby," said the Mouse, gravely, as he passed outward through
the forest of shins, "but I know tolerably well how to diagnose a
volcano."

The Bellamy and the Members

The Members of a body of Socialists rose in insurrection against their
Bellamy.

"Why," said they, "should we be all the time tucking you out with food
when you do nothing to tuck us out?"

So, resolving to take no further action, they went away, and looking
backward had the satisfaction to see the Bellamy compelled to sell his
own book.

OLD SAWS WITH NEW TEETH
CERTAIN ANCIENT FABLES APPLIED TO
THE LIFE OF OUR TIMES

The Wolf and the Crane

A Rich Man wanted to tell a certain lie, but the lie was of such
monstrous size that it stuck in his throat; so he employed an Editor to
write it out and publish it in his paper as an editorial. But when the
Editor presented his bill, the Rich Man said:

"Be content--is it nothing that I refrained from advising you about
investments?"

The Lion and the Mouse

A Judge was awakened by the noise of a lawyer prosecuting a Thief. Rising
in wrath he was about to sentence the Thief to life imprisonment when the
latter said:

"I beg that you will set me free, and I will some day requite your
kindness."

Pleased and flattered to be bribed, although by nothing but an empty
promise, the Judge let him go. Soon afterward he found that it was more
than an empty promise, for, having become a Thief, he was himself set
free by the other, who had become a Judge.

The Hares and the Frogs

The Members of a Legislature, being told that they were the meanest
thieves in the world,