Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1883 — A Fable. [ARTICLE]

A Fable.

One day a famous hunter was. passing through a wood. An opossum testing upon a limb of a tree saw the hunter approaching, and, knowing that he was a dead shot, was thrown into a panic. Creeping out upon the branch, the opossum resolved to cast itself down sooner than be shot. Just as the poor animal was about to carry out its resolution it was seized with an attack of common sense and concluded to wait. Concealing itself by flattening’ its body along the limb it escaped observation. When the hunter was out of sight the opossum arose and remarked: “Hereafter I shall take good care to never squeal before I am hurt.” There is a moral in this fable for those who believe they are referred to in newspaper articles.—Kansas City Journal. It is of the utmost importance that a nation should have a correct standard by which to weigh the character of its rulers. — LorJ John Russell. rS. ■"T’ —''A 1 *- / 'j '■ Foil Stbvsmson, Dakota Ter.'—Rev. Jam Sa Bitters enkaA

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