HOLDS A MORAL.
— + — Once upon a lime a donkey fell iiiw_ a hole, and, after nearly starving caught sight of a passing fox, and implored the stranger to help him out ” I am too small to aid you ” said the fox, “ but I will give you some advice. Only a few rods away is a big strong elephant. Call to hiija and he will get you out in a jifly.” After the fox had gone the donkey thus reasoned : “I am very weav from want of nourishment. Every move I make is so much loss of strength. If I raise my voice to call the elephant I s! all be weaker still. No, I will not vaste my substance, that way. It is the duty of the elephant to come without calling.” So the donkey settled himself back and eventually starved to death. Long afterwards, the fox on passing the hole saw a whitened skeleton, and remarked—” If it be that the souls of animals arc transmigrated into men, that donkey will become one of those merchant.i wuo can never afford to advertise.”
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 189, 12 April 1902, Page 3
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183HOLDS A MORAL. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 189, 12 April 1902, Page 3
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