Anonymous

“ Mankind have an enemy whom they well know,
Who tempts them in every way;
But they, too, at length shall o’ercome this foe,
If wisdom’s right law they obey.
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THE
WONDERFUL HISTORY
OF
HENNY-PENNY.
One fine summer morning a Hen was picking peas in a farm-yard, under a pea-stack, when a pea fell on her head with such a thump that she thought a cloud had fallen. And she thought she would go to the court and tell the king that the clouds were falling: so she gaed, and she gaed, and she gaed, and she met a Cock, and the Cock said,—
“Where are you going to-day, Henny-penny?” ”

“ And popped out her pretty red bill;
Said she, “Your fair words are all in vain,
But talk to me here, if you will.”
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“To-morrow,” he cried, “there will be a fair,
All the birds and the beasts will go ”