Anonymous

“ The Parrot is a chattering bird, he talks a great deal, yet knows not what he says; and is therefore not unlike some silly boys, who prate without thinking, and learn their lesson without looking at their book. ”

“ There is no bird treated with so much cruelty as the Cock; for he, poor [6] thing, (without the least offence,) is tied to a stake, and thrown at by a set of idle, wicked, barbarous fellows, till he is beaten in pieces. ”

“ Though this animal makes such a mean figure, yet Sampson, with the jawbone of an Ass, slew a thousand men. But then the Lord was with him, and God Almighty can do any thing.
[22] THE ANT.
THE little Ant no labour spares,
Wisely preventing future cares ”