The children's book; a collection of the best and most famous stories and poems in the English language (1910)
Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 · Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and company · leaf 25
, thy head and mine will be laidmany a fair day before this river has all run by. THE BELLY AND THE MEMBERS. All the Members of the body conspired againstthe Belly, as against the swallowing gulf of alltheir labors ; for whereas the eyes beheld, the earsheard, the hands labored, the feet traveled,… … to take care of himself. One day passed over, thesecond followed very slowly, but the third day wasso grievous to them all that they called a commoncouncil. The eyes waxed dim, the feet could notsupport the body, the arms waxed lazy, the tonguefaltered, and could not lay open the matter ;…
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