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TV. There was once a Preccptress, who reproved her youthful charges for casting coy smiles upon the hays across the the dining hall. When they excused themselves by the assertion that the boys first glanced at them and smiled, she responded: "That is your own fat!lt; the boys look at me, too, but they never smile." t.llOI~AL: Virtue may be assailed, but never hur-t. V A cer-tain king was SOI"C distressed because his eldest SOil, although he had a well-formed body, was born with the head of an Ass. "What can I do with such a creature!" he exclaimed. A member of the Faculty, who W;:lS standing by, replied: "If" you will have Ph, D. put nFter his name we will take him to College and make himjudge in an oratorical contest." l\10[{AL: It isn't always the soundest tree that has the loudest bark. V1. There was once a foolish Horse who was dissatisfied with his lot. Daily he bewailed his fate in some sucb words as these:" Why was 1 created a miserable literal translation? \VI1\" could I not have been made an interlinear like the proud creatures that toss their heads in scorn at l11y~ll1allncss?" It chanced one day thatJupiter heard his plaint, and, in a jocose mood, changed him to an interlinear. The next day his master seized him and said: "This horse is too large to take into exam.; I'll just cu t alit the hardest parts and pin them inside of my coat." Thus the wretched Horse perished miserably as a reward for his folly. MO!{AL: Only the contented are truly happy, vu, A certain Teacher of Latin and Greek desired hi" pupils to read one hundred and sixty lines of Greek daily. When they protested that this would give them 110 time to study anything else, he replied: "Well. T only want you study it two hours a day, and if you can't get it out in this time, p'r'nps we'll reduce the lesson." i\'lORAL: Would't that jar you! - 207 - -