A NEAT FABLE.
Lord Ribblesdale recently related the ! following fable in support of the proposition that we ought all to be optimists. Two frogs, one a pessimist, the other an optimist, had the mischancb to fall into a bowl of cream, The pes simist at once gave up the thing as a bad job; it was no use to attempt to do anything, he said, so he sank to the bottom. The optimist remarked that he had never been in anything of that kind before, but that he must do his best to get out of it; so he swam, and swam, and though he could not swim out of the bowl, he became aware that the fluid he was in was getting thicker. He continued to strike out, and in due time he found himself sitting in security on a pat of butter of bis own making.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 192, 27 August 1900, Page 3
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148A NEAT FABLE. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 192, 27 August 1900, Page 3
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