FABLE.
The One-eyed Do e—/Esop. A Doa, that had but one eye, used to graze near the sea ; and that she might be the more secure from harm, she kept her lilirnl sid'J towards I'ie water, from whence she li:nl no apprehension of danger, and with tlic other siirv-yed the contitry as she fell. Hy tMs viliganre and precaution she thought herself ii> the utmoit jccuiiiy, when a sly f. How, with two or three of his companions, who had bc-ii poaching after her for several Jays to no purpose, at i ist to-k n boat, and (etching a compass e.inie g:-nlly do-.in upon and shut her. 'l'he do-, in tie ajoiiiesof death, hiea'hel out this doleful complaint : " Oh hard fali:! tint I should iceeive my le-iih-woiiiid from that side whence I e.\pccicd no ill, and be safe in the part where I looked for the most danger." Moiiai.. Life is so full of nCi'Meiits niu] iiuccrlitnties, lliat, with all ilia precaution we use, «-u can never be said 10 be entirely free fiom danger. Wc ii.ay guard against the most visible and threatening ills, as much as »c please, hut shall slill leave an unguarded side to a thou, sand latent inischu-fi, which lie around us. The moral, which such a reflecfion suggests to us. is to be neither too secure, nor too solicitous übout the safety of our peisous ; as it is impossible for us to be always out of danger, so wouhl it be unreasonable and unrii ai ly to be always in fear of that which it is not iu our power to prevent.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 56, 15 February 1851, Page 4
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268FABLE. Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 3, Issue 56, 15 February 1851, Page 4
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