short?"

Next they came to a garden inclosed by a high wall, with a wicket gate
at one end. The pig entered by the gate, and, after having eaten his
fill of the vegetables within, came out, laughing at the poor camel,
who had had to stay outside, because he was too tall to enter the
garden by the gate, and said, "Now, would you be tall or short?"

Then they thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that the
camel should keep his hump and the pig his snout, observing:

"Tall is good, where tall would do;
Of short, again, 't is also true!"

* * * * *

THE MAN AND HIS PIECE OF CLOTH

A man in the East, where they do not require as much clothing as in
colder climates, gave up all worldly concerns and retired to a wood,
where he built a hut and lived in it.

His only clothing was a piece of cloth which he wore round his waist.
But, as ill-luck would have it, rats were plentiful in the wood, so he
had to keep a cat. The cat required milk to keep it, so a cow had to
be kept. The cow required tending, so a cow-boy was employed. The boy
required a house to live in, so a house was built for him. To look
after the house a maid had to be engaged. To provide company for the
maid a few more houses had to be built, and people invited to live in
them. In this manner a little township sprang up.

The man said, "_The further we seek to go from the world and its
cares, the more they multiply_!"

* * * * *

THE SEA, THE FOX, AND THE WOLF

A fox that lived by the seashore once met a wolf that had never seen
the sea. The wolf said, "What is the sea?"

"It is a great piece of water by my dwelling," said the fox.

"Is it under your control?" asked the wolf.

"Certainly," said the fox.

"Will you show me the sea, then?" said the wolf.

"With pleasure," said the fox. So the fox led the wolf to the sea, and
said to the waves, "Now go back,"--they went back. "Now come up,"--and
they came up! Then the fox said to the waves, "My friend, the wolf,
has come to see you, so you will come up and go back till I bid you
stop;" and the wolf saw, with wonder, the waves coming up and going
back.

He said to the fox, "May I go into the sea?"

"As far as you like. Don't be afraid, for, at a word, the sea would go
or come as I bid, and as you have already seen."

The wolf believed the fox, and followed the waves rather far from the
shore. A great