FABLE.
The Dove and the Ant. We should always be ready to do good offices even to the meanest of our fellow creatures as there is no one to whose assistance we may not, upon some occasion or oilier, be greatly indebted. A dove \va? sipping from the hanks of a rivn'ct, when nn ant, who was tit the snmc
time trailing a grain of corn along the edge of a brook, inadvertently fell in. The dove, observing tlie helpless insect struggling in vain to reach the shore, was, touched with compassion, and plucking ft blade of gras?, dropped it into Ihe stream, by means of which the poor ant, like a shipwrecked sailor on o plank, got safe to land. She had scarcely arrived there, when she perceived n I'oivler just going to discharge his piece at her deliverer, upon which she instantly crept up his foot, and slung him in the nncle. The sportsman starting, occasioned a rustling among the bou"hs, which alarmed the dove, who immediately sprung up, and by tliat means escaped the danger with which she was threatened.
• 'I lie tniki is a sort of basket-work frjine lor (living, generally used to catch cray or other slicll 11-h, in which the divir encased himself, with a weight attached tu the bottom, so that In liiijjhl he limited up ngnhi hy the rope which w.is held by a pirty on shore | Tunc Mahiit* w.is the ancestor, or deilied |<r<>rciiUot nf ail irees ; thi.s proverb is there tore applied to the skeleton ol the ino»>ter, which U likened to the hollow trunk of an immense tree.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 52, 19 December 1850, Page 3
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269FABLE. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 52, 19 December 1850, Page 3
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