| Show THE MONKEY AND THE NUTS A colony of monkeys having gathered a store of nuts for the winter begged their wise ones to distribute them theia the wise ones reserved a good half for themselves and distribute distributed i the remainder amon among the tile rest of the coi cot community u n giving ving to some twenty nuts to tim lim others th e rittie ten n I 1 to other five live and to a a considerable number none now when those to whom twenty had lad been given complained that the wise ones had kept so many for themselves the wise ones answered peace foolish ones are ve ye not much better off than those who have ten and they were pacified and ana those who objected having only ten they said be satisfied are there not many who have bu but t nive five and they kept silence and they answered those who had five live say saying nay but see ye not the number who aade nave none now when these last made complaint of the gunj unjust list division and demanded a share the wise ones stepped forward and and exclaimed to those who had twenty and ten and five behold the wickedness of thee these the e monkeys because they have no nuts they are dissatisfied and would fain rob you of I 1 those which are yours and they all fell on the monkeys and beat them sorely moral the selfishness of moderately well to do blinds them to the rapacity of the rich I 1 utile DULCI newcastle meekly weekly chronicle |
