THE CENTIPEDE AND THE BARBARIC YAC.
While a centipede was painfully toiling over the Libyan desert he was encountered by a barbaric Yak, who scornfully asked him how were his poor feet ? The humble creature made no reply at the time, but some days later found the barbaric Yak talwn in tho nets ot the hunter and almost devoured by insects, which fled at the approach of the centipede. " Help, help, my good friend !" exclaimed the unfortunate beast. "I cannot move a muscle in these cruel toils, and the ravenous insects have well-nigh devoured my delicate flesh." "Say you so?" responded tho centipede. "Can you really not defend yourself?" •'Alas ! how can I?" replied the yac. "See you not how straitly lam bound ?" " And is your flesh, then, so delicate?" "It is, though I say it who should not." " Then," said the oentipede, " I guess I'll take a bite myself." Moral.—The other man's extremity is often our opportunity.
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1707, 9 August 1879, Page 4
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