Fables in Verse
LEONARD, WILLIAM ELLERY
Fables in Verse (AFTER AESOP) By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD To be published in book form by the Open Court THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELERS TWO TRAVELERS upon a mountain path Were once confronted by a...
...The Bear came up and nosed about his head, And (as a Bear will never touch the dead) He snorted off...
...Fables in Verse (AFTER AESOP) By WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD To be published in book form by the Open Court THE BEAR AND THE TRAVELERS TWO TRAVELERS upon a mountain path Were once confronted by a Bear in wrath...
...There is truth and entertainment enough to print, without fiction or falsehood, and to publish the latter is to betray the former.— C. Simmons...
...The one he clambered up a tree with vim And sate contentedly upon a limb...
...Why, he advised me not to travel here And MORAL on all travels to avoid the chum Who will desert one when disasters come...
...NEWSPAPERS should be news carriers, not news makers...
...Then from the tree the other Descending nimbly, jested: "Well, my brother, What was it he was whispering in your ear...
...And so the other dropped and held his breath, Lying upon his paunch and feigning death...
Vol. 4 • August 1912 • No. 31
