THE GOAT AND TIHE LAnsB.
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What misery said a pretty lamb, after he had cropped his full ssf tender grass ! sunny vale, and was reposiug upon a velvet bed of scented clover. sWba, misery IS mine! I am tired of this lazy valley, thus buried from all human observation. Here can neither see nor be seen. They say that Providence has shed equal blessings upon. the beings'he has created. Forsooth, that is very well to talk about, but l will believe as much of ii as please, Bless sings, indeed what blessings Here l am cooped up in a narrow valley, without any prospect, while yonder, ] see goats who are no better than I,enjoying them- selves wonderfully on the preeipices- climbing the lofty crags, and overlooking, for what know, all the world. Oh that I might thus rise where could survey 2 wilder scene, and also where ] could be viewed by all the creatures beneath, who would envy as well as admire me-

 sHave thy wish,' said Jupiter.

 Immediately the discontented animal found himself elevated an immense distance above the plain, where he looked like q sDeck. The wind was here strong and chill, the earth barren and lonely; wild 7 birds of prey screamed around. He stood treniblngunon the edge of giddy preci- pice, and already wishing but unable to de- scend. A hardy goat leapiHg near, the af- frichfed stranger thus addressed him:

 sHow IS it that thou art fearless and hap pv 1T, such wild as this 2

 .Aias' said the goat; I am not happy. l am wreiched creature, whom heaven has cruelty placed here in these dreadfn,wastes. I do not know what i have done io deserve t. True, am formed to leap about from rock to rock; my feet, thou seest, are dlf- ferenf from thine; and are constructed so as 10 receive no injury from the sharp erags, But I have often looked at the beautiful vale beneath, and upbraided Providence for not having placed me theres

 Indeed, as the lamb gazed below upon his peaceful abode, be secretly acknow- ledeed. that if was lovely and happy, and fbat Al were once more there he would r,eyerS.s;;t, abandon it. So, when ambition is even at the summit of it's giddy height, and eazes upon the tranquil pleasures fl has surrendered, they appear in the distance withnew and enchanting beauty.

 Something like these thoughts were gll- ding through the lambs mind

 I have learned a lesson, and experience, they Say, Is better than wesIih,

 