Hymns, Songs, and Fables, for Young People Part 11

"Ah! you see," answered Betsey, "what I told you was true; Your shoes, Master Frank, are too small."

His old shoes he was glad in the morning to see, And, forgetting his trouble and pain, "How happy," said he, "my poor toes will be To get into the old shoes again."

The voice of the old shoe now once more was heard:-- "Master Frank, will you please to attend?

I wish, with your leave, to say just a word,-- 'Tis a word of advice from a friend.

"Never part with old shoes till they part from you; Let your new ones be always well tried; Old shoes and old friends are far better than new, And, trust me, more worthy of pride.

"Our strings and our toes are bad, we must own, But they can be easily mended.

I have done," said the shoe, in a kind, easy tone, And it gaped as the lecture was ended.

New toes and new heels now the old shoes have got, New strings, too, their beauty renew; Frank wears them in peace, and has never forgot The words of the friendly old shoe.

THE MONKEYS AND THE BEARS.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF GELLART.

The monkeys, 'tis said, once asked of the bears, How it was that their nation so much surpa.s.sed theirs, And begged that the means they would graciously tell By which the young bears were kept hearty and well.

"Perhaps it may be," said one of the mothers, Who seemed more considerate and wise than the others, "Perhaps," said she, trembling at even the thought, "We give our dear young ones less food than we ought; We may be impatient; I have really some fears That we rock them too little, the poor little dears; Our milk may cause fever, and their stomachs not suit, Or perhaps they are weakened and injured by fruit.

Perhaps the whole mischief is caused by the air, And who 'gainst this evil can ever prepare?

In their earliest years, it may poison instil, And through their whole lifetime produce every ill.

Perhaps it may be, before we are aware, They breathe in a pestilence, borne on the air.

Perhaps, for the nerves of us monkeys are weak, In jumping, or leaping, some bone they may break In their b.r.e.a.s.t.s." Here, for weeping, she scarcely could speak, And she s.n.a.t.c.hed up her little one long to her breast; With such vehement love the poor victim she pressed, That all its complainings and troubles were stilled; Alas the poor mother! her pet she had killed.

Said the bear,--"No longer I think you need seek For the cause why your young ones are sickly and weak; It is not the milk, nor the fruit, nor the air, Nor fault of the stomach, and 'tis no lack of care.

Your blind fondness it is that cuts short their days.

How is it that we such mult.i.tudes raise?

As soon as our young ones are able to run, We take them out with us to play in the sun.

We take them through floods, through heat, and through cold, And so they are healthy, and live to be old."

THE END.

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