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The Brahmin.
' Cruel savage monster . '" exclaimed a hawk , eyeing the youth with a peculiar expression of hostility ; * ' I dare say he has been setting traps for the purpose of destroying us , the blood-thirsty villain P " Let us pounce upon the tyrant ancl kill him in . his sleep , " cried an eagle , " for he grudges me a miserable little lamb now and then , although I don ' t require one more than once a week ; see where he wounded me in the wing that I scarcelget honest living by
, so can y an prey . " _ " Let me scratch his eyes out , " again screamed the hawk , " for he will not allow me to carry off a fowl peaceably from his grounds , although I am dying of hunger , ancl come openly in the face of day to claim my natural indefeasible rights . " "Ay . | ay J" barked a fox , " he interferes in the same manner with rivilegesthough I am always accommodating h to visit " his
my p , enoug hen-roost in the night that I might not disturb him , " "Agreed , " hissed a serpent , " for he wont let me bite him , although he knows it is my nature to do so , but he kills me without mercy . " " The wretch ! " exclaimed a great fat spicier , who sat in his nest surrounded by the dead bodies of half a dozen insects ; " kill him , for the cruel-minded savage takes delight in destroyina ; the fruits of my honest skill . "
" By all means kill him , " buzzed a great blue-bottle fly , " for he will not let me blow his food on a hot day , but guards it from me with a net of wire ; the contemptible miser !" "Kill him , " cried a little ant , who was fuming and fretting at a furious rate ; " kill him without mercy , for he dont mind treading me into a million of atoms a bit more than I do killing a fly . " " The less you say about that , " whispered the spider , " the better . " Odds fish exclaimed beautiful trout
" . '" a , popping his head out of the water , " kill the monster by all means ; hook him I say , for he entices me with worms , and then devours me to gratify his insatiable appetite . " " To be sure , " said a worm , " kill him as he sleeps , and I'll eat him afterwards ; for although I am acknowledged by philosophers and divines to be his brother , he impales me alive on a hook only for his amusement . "
" I consent , cooed a dove , " for he has deprived me of my beloved mate , and made me a disconsolate widow . " " He has committed a million of murders , " cried the spider . " He has drowned all my kittens , " mewed the cat . " He tramples on me without mercy , " whispered the toad , " only because I am no beauty ; hot that , " she added with vanity , " that I would change eyes with him . " " He is a treacherous cunning villain , " barked the fox .
" He has no more bowels than a wolf , " screamed the hawk . " He is a bloody tyrant , " croaked the eagle . " He is the common enemy of all nature , and deserves a hundred ancl fifty thousand deaths ! " they all exclaimed with one voice . * You hear , " exclaimed Zekah , turning to the sage , " the genera ! accusation of all created things ; is this the lesson ? thou hast but confirmed me in my former judgment . " " Peace , child of earth , " answered the Genius ; " thou has only listened to the voice of passion ; mark , how by their own acts , these creatures shall acquit mankind of cruelty , "
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Brahmin.
' Cruel savage monster . '" exclaimed a hawk , eyeing the youth with a peculiar expression of hostility ; * ' I dare say he has been setting traps for the purpose of destroying us , the blood-thirsty villain P " Let us pounce upon the tyrant ancl kill him in . his sleep , " cried an eagle , " for he grudges me a miserable little lamb now and then , although I don ' t require one more than once a week ; see where he wounded me in the wing that I scarcelget honest living by
, so can y an prey . " _ " Let me scratch his eyes out , " again screamed the hawk , " for he will not allow me to carry off a fowl peaceably from his grounds , although I am dying of hunger , ancl come openly in the face of day to claim my natural indefeasible rights . " "Ay . | ay J" barked a fox , " he interferes in the same manner with rivilegesthough I am always accommodating h to visit " his
my p , enoug hen-roost in the night that I might not disturb him , " "Agreed , " hissed a serpent , " for he wont let me bite him , although he knows it is my nature to do so , but he kills me without mercy . " " The wretch ! " exclaimed a great fat spicier , who sat in his nest surrounded by the dead bodies of half a dozen insects ; " kill him , for the cruel-minded savage takes delight in destroyina ; the fruits of my honest skill . "
" By all means kill him , " buzzed a great blue-bottle fly , " for he will not let me blow his food on a hot day , but guards it from me with a net of wire ; the contemptible miser !" "Kill him , " cried a little ant , who was fuming and fretting at a furious rate ; " kill him without mercy , for he dont mind treading me into a million of atoms a bit more than I do killing a fly . " " The less you say about that , " whispered the spider , " the better . " Odds fish exclaimed beautiful trout
" . '" a , popping his head out of the water , " kill the monster by all means ; hook him I say , for he entices me with worms , and then devours me to gratify his insatiable appetite . " " To be sure , " said a worm , " kill him as he sleeps , and I'll eat him afterwards ; for although I am acknowledged by philosophers and divines to be his brother , he impales me alive on a hook only for his amusement . "
" I consent , cooed a dove , " for he has deprived me of my beloved mate , and made me a disconsolate widow . " " He has committed a million of murders , " cried the spider . " He has drowned all my kittens , " mewed the cat . " He tramples on me without mercy , " whispered the toad , " only because I am no beauty ; hot that , " she added with vanity , " that I would change eyes with him . " " He is a treacherous cunning villain , " barked the fox .
" He has no more bowels than a wolf , " screamed the hawk . " He is a bloody tyrant , " croaked the eagle . " He is the common enemy of all nature , and deserves a hundred ancl fifty thousand deaths ! " they all exclaimed with one voice . * You hear , " exclaimed Zekah , turning to the sage , " the genera ! accusation of all created things ; is this the lesson ? thou hast but confirmed me in my former judgment . " " Peace , child of earth , " answered the Genius ; " thou has only listened to the voice of passion ; mark , how by their own acts , these creatures shall acquit mankind of cruelty , "