Chapter 9

Peace with his dust! Another couplet of Pope's, methinks, has more of moral truth and justice:--

"A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; An honest man's the noblest work of God."

+--------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber's Note: | | | |Inconsistencies in the use of hyphens and accents,| |as well as in the title of fables in the table of | |contents and in the body of the text, have been | |retained as in the original book. | +--------------------------------------------------+