Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 216
d threw at him; but this onlymade the Youngster laugh, to think the old Manshould pretend to beat him down from the treewith grass only. Well, well, said the old Man, if neither -wordsnor grass -will do, I must try what virtue there isin Stones ; so the old man pelted him heartily withstones; which… … m SHI FABLE II.The Country Maid and her Milk Pail. WHEN men suffer their imagination to amusethem, with the distant and uncertain improvementsof their condition, they frequently sustain real losses,by their inattention to those affairs in which they arcimmediately concerned. A country Maid was…
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