The Goat and his Pupil.
One day, after being ridiculed and abused by some of his young neighbors, he went to his schoolmaster with a great budget full of troubles. This schoolmaster was an old goat, with a long beard, and a long head, too, as it would seem from the character he had.
"O dear!" said the little simpleton, "everybody hates me. I wish I were dead. I'm sure I don't know what it means. The more I try to be good, the less they all like me."
"My dear fellow," said Mr. Longbeard, "I am sorry for you. But I can do nothing to help you. It will always be so, until you do better."
"Why, I do as well as I can now," replied the young goat.
"You ape the sheep too much."
"Well, the farmer thinks more of his sheep than he does of his goats—a great deal more."
"And what of it?"