CLOTHES AND CREATURES.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 200, 23 April 1887, Page 7

CLOTHES AND CREATURES.

A little girl and boy were once seated a flower bank and talking prOudl fe ™ their dress. " See » said the boy/ « what a beautiful new hat I have got, what a fine blue jacketand trousers, anf whatanicepaS little gk « I think I STdSaS'fCtlS you for I have on my silk pelisse, and a nne feather in my hat; I know my dress cost a good deal of money." »k fc Z much as mine," said the boy. « I know » " Hold your peace," said a caterpillar, crawling m the hedge, "you have neither of you any reason to be so proud of your clothes for they are only secondhand, and have all been worn by some creature or other, of which you thinkjbut meanly, before they were upon you. Why, that silk has first wrapped up such a worm asl.» There miss, what do you say to that?" said the boy. -And the feather,'' exclaimed a bird, upon a tree, was stolen from, or cast off, by some of my race." " What do you !?& fP fchat > ?ifflT» repeated the boy. Well, my clothes were neither worn by birde nor worms." "True," said thesheep, grazing close by, « but they were worn on the backs of some of my family before they were yours; and as for your hat, I know that the beavers have supplied the fur for that article, and my friends the calves and. oxen m that field were not killed nierefr to get their flesh to eat, but also to get? their skms to make your shoes." See the folly of being proud of your clothes.^ince we are indebted to the meanest creatures for them ; and even then we would not use them if God did not give us the wisdom to contrive the best way of making them fit to wear, and. the means of procuring them for our comfort.