Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 45
y causeDisturbed it when begun. 22 The City Rat and the Country Rat 23 It was a slight rat-tat That put their joys to rout:Out ran the city rat; His guest, too, scampered out. Our rats but fairly quit, The fearful knocking ceased. Return we, cried the cit, To finish there our feast. No, said the… … THE ASS LOADED WITH SPONGES, ANDTHE ASS LOADED WITH SALT (Fbom the Fables of La Fontaine.) A MAN, whom I shall call an ass-eteer, His sceptre like some Roman emperor bearing,Drove on two coursers of protracted ear,The one, with sponges laden, briskly faring;The other lifting legsAs if he trod on…
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