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Title:  Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's Fables.:
Author: Trusler, John, 1735-1820.
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the honey, and the bees have shewn their resentment.—They have done him all the ill they could.—They have stung him.It's pow'r to hurt, each creature feels;Bulls aim their horns, and asses lift their heels.In vain did his parents advise him to desist; in vain did they point out the danger of engaging rashly with a hive of bees: experience has now made him wise; and the smart he feels, will tell him the next time he approaches a bee-hive, to be more upon his guard. The hive is a significant emblem of industry, it being the store-house, where the bees lay up their provision for the winter; and the props, under the hive, are meant to shew that industry will never want support: nor is even the stick without it's moral; pointing straight to the boy that is running off, it tells us, that Industry is the straight line to retirement, for the di|ligent man maketh rich.—Prudent lad, he has benefited by the experience of his compa|nion, and has escaped the harm: knowing now that he cannot gather roses without thorns, or honey without the risk of being stung—"I will pro|vide myself," cries he, "as well as I can, against the danger, and then I'll try."0