Ashton, John, b. 1834 · London Chatto and Windus · leaf 486
The Chough and the Swallow fell into a warm dispute aboutbeauty, and the Swallow insisted mightily on hers, and claimedthe advantage. Nay says the Chough, you forget that yourbeauty decays with the Spring, whereas mine lasts all the year. Fable 10.A Father and his Sons. … An honest man who had the misfortune to have contentiouschildren, endeavoured to reconcile them ; and one day having 470 Chap-Books of the Eighteenth CentJiry. them before him, he bought a bundle of sticks, then desiredeach of them to break it, which they strove to do, but couldnot Well, said he,…
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