I sha'n't go to stop with such beggars as they!"
But forgetting her burden, when this she had said,
The maid superciliously toss'd up her head
When alas! for her prospects—the milk pail descended!
And so all her schemes for the future were ended.
MORAL.
This moral, I think, may be safely attach'd:
Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatch'd.
