“Just so,” said the gnat, “I will show you that I can do what you cannot.”
“Try, then, if you can.” So the gnat went and placed itself under the fold of the buffalo’s belly, and stung him just between the creases of the skin where the flesh was softest.
Up jumped the buffalo, and in a wink he had got out of the mire, and was brought to the market by the man who owned shamefacedly that of the two the gnat was the stronger.
“Hi! hi!” hissed the gnat, “didst thou see that I could do with my little tongue, what thou with thy mighty cudgel couldst not do?”
CV.
THE STORY OF THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE FIELD MOUSE.
A mouse living in the town one day met a mouse which lived in the field.
“Whence do you come?” asked the latter when she saw the town-mouse.
“I come from yonder town,” replied the first mouse.