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• 1.The Monkey and the Nuts
• A CERTAIN City desiring to purchase a site for a public Deformatory procured an appropriation from the Government of the country. Deeming this insuffi...
• 2.The Wolf Who Would Be a Lion
• A FOOLISH Fellow who had been told that he was a great man believed it, and got himself appointed a Commissioner to the Interasylum Exposition of Pres...
• 3.King Log and King Stork
• THE People being dissatisfied with a Democratic Legislature, which stole no more than they had, elected a Republican one, which not only stole all the...
• 4.The Milkmaid and Her Bucket
• A SENATOR fell to musing as follows: With the money which I shall get for my vote in favour of the bill to subsidise cat-ranches, I can buy a kit of b...
• 5.The Hare and the Tortoise
• OF two Writers one was brilliant but indolent; the other though dull, industrious. They set out for the goal of fame with equal opportunities. Before ...
• 6.The Wolf and the Lion
• AN Indian who had been driven out of a fertile valley by a White Settler, said: Now that you have robbed me of my land, there is nothing for me to do ...
• 7.The Ass and the Grasshoppers
• A STATESMAN heard some Labourers singing at their work, and wishing to be happy too, asked them what made them so. Honesty, replied the Labourers. So ...
• 8.The Ass and the Lion's Skin
• A MEMBER of the State Militia stood at a street corner, scowling stormily, and the people passing that way went a long way around him, thinking of the...
• 9.The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox
• Two Thieves having stolen a Piano and being unable to divide it fairly without a remainder went to law about it and continued the contest as long as e...
• 10.The Dog and His Reflection
• A STATE Official carrying off the Dome of the Capitol met the Ghost of his predecessor, who had come out of his political grave to warn him that God s...