“What is my limp, which still permits me to walk wherever I will, to his blindness, which shuts out every ray of light? Yet he is the happier of the two! After all, blind as he is, I was doing myself no unkindness in wishing I could take his place.”
How often does he who has the most go poor because he is unconscious of it! while he who has the least is made rich by being able to appreciate what he has.
OTHER BIRDS’ FEATHERS.
A GANDER and a cock lived on the same farm. They were young and handsome birds, each well satisfied with himself, but, unfortunately, jealous of the other. This made them always ready to pick a quarrel. Chancing one day to meet beside a brook that ran by the farmhouse, the cock straightened himself up and said:
“Look at my long and graceful tail-feathers, and compare them with the short stubby quills in your tail.”
To which the gander replied: