delicious a fluid."

The Wasps, refusing to agree to this proposal, sufficiently convinced the judge on which side the right lay; and he decreed the honey-combs accordingly.

REFLECTION.

Pretenders of every kind are best detected by appealing to their works.

Two Bears, climbing over a fence into a place where Bees were kept, began to plunder the Hives, and rob them of their honey. But the Bees, to revenge the injury, attacked them in a whole swarm together; and though they were not able to pierce their rugged hides, yet, with their little stings, they so annoyed their eyes and nostrils, that, unable to endure the smarting pain, with impatience they tore the skin over their ears with their own claws, and suffered ample punishment for the injury they did the Bees, in breaking open their waxen cells.

REFLECTION.

Many and great are the injuries of which some men are guilty towards others, for the sake of gratifying some

liquorish appetite. For there are those who would not stick to bring desolation upon their country, and run the hazard of their own necks into the bargain, rather than balk a wicked inclination, either of cruelty, ambition, or avarice. But it were to be wished, all who are hurried by such blind impulses would consider a moment before they proceed to irrevocable execution. Injuries and wrongs not only call for revenge and reparation with the voice of equity itself, but oftentimes carry their punishment along with them, and, by an unforeseen train of events, are retorted on the head of the actor of them; and not seldom, from a deep remorse, expiated upon himself, by his own hand.

THE CAMELEON AND THE TRAVELLERS.

Two Travellers happened on their journey to be engaged in a warm dispute about the colour of the Cameleon. One of them affirmed it was blue; that he had seen it with his own eyes, upon the naked branch of a tree, feeding on the air, in a very clear day. The other strongly asserted it was green, and that he had viewed it very closely and minutely on the broad leaf of a fig-tree. Both of them were positive, and the dispute was rising to a quarrel; but a third person luckily coming by, they agreed to refer the question to his decision. "Gentlemen," said the arbitrator, with a smile of great self-satisfaction, "you could not have been more lucky in your reference, as I happen to have caught one of them last night; but indeed you are both mistaken, for the creature is totally black." "Black!

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impossible!" Nay," quoth the umpire, with great assurance; "the matter may soon be decided, for I immediately inclosed my Cameleon in a little paper box; and here it is." So saying, he drew it out of his pocket, opened his box, and behold it was as white as snow. The positive disputants looked equally surprised, and equally confounded; while the sagacious reptile, assuming the air of a philosopher, thus addressed them. "Ye children of men, learn diffidence and moderation in your opinions. 'Tis true, you happen in the present instance to be all in the right, and have only considered the subject under different circumstances. But pray, for the future, allow others to have eye-sight as well as yourselves; and be candid enough not to condemn any man for judging of things, as they appear to his own view."

REFLECTION.

The different lights in which things appear to different judgments, recommend candour to the opinions of others, even at the time that we retain our own.