That it would not go down one half the way

To the place of the envied treasure.[[1]]

Said she, in a pet, "One thing I know,"

As she rose, and in haste departed,

"It is not those of the

greatest show,

To whom for a favor 'tis best to go,

Or that prove most generous-hearted!"

A fleecy flock came into the field;

When one of its members followed