Better be satisfied with our own significance than seek to array ourselves in the consequence of other people.
FAIR AND FOUL WEATHER.
A SHOWER having come up suddenly while the chickens were scattered over the barnyard, they ran from every direction to the chicken-house and disappeared, one by one, through a hole near the ground that had been left open for them to enter.
A young cock, however, that happened to be in an adjoining field, took refuge under a tree, where he straightened himself up, letting his tail droop, so that the water would trickle off from it. But when he found that the shower did not pass over, as he expected, he too took to his heels and joined the rest under shelter. And there they all stood, chickens, ducks, and guinea-fowls, dolefully watching the rain.
After waiting for a time, and finding it likely to continue, the cock, shaking out his feathers, said:
“I’m going out to hunt for my dinner.”