The Parables of the Saviour The Good Child\'s Library, Tenth Book
THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY. TENTH BOOK. THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR, IN EASY VERSE. WITH BRILLIANT ILLUMINATIONS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS 1851. PREFACE. The object of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," is to encourage a taste for
'Ever absent, harsh, unjustly portioning the captured prey--
These, and cold or laggard leaders make a host to melt away.'
'Ah!' interrupted the Rajah, 'what need of so much talk? We will go,
and, if Vachaspati please, we will conquer.'
Shortly afterwards the Spy returned to Camphor-island. 'King
Silver-sides,' he cried, 'the Rajah, Jewel-plume, is on his way hither,
and has reached the Ghauts. Let the fort be manned, for that Vulture is
a great minister; and I have learned, too, that there is one among us
who is in his pay.'
'King!' said the Goose, 'that must be the Crow.'
'But whence, then, did he show such willingness to punish the Parrot?'
objected his Majesty. 'Besides, war was declared long after the Crow
came to Court.'
'I misdoubt him,' said the Minister, 'because he is a stranger.'
'But strangers surely may be well-disposed,' replied the King. 'How say
the books?--
'Kind is kin, howe'er a stranger--kin unkind is stranger shown;
Sores hurt, though the body breeds them--drugs relieve, though
THE GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY. TENTH BOOK. THE PARABLES OF THE SAVIOUR, IN EASY VERSE. WITH BRILLIANT ILLUMINATIONS, FROM ORIGINAL DESIGNS 1851. PREFACE. The object of the "GOOD CHILD'S LIBRARY," is to encourage a taste for