a fox saw a lion confined in a cage, and standing near him, bitterly reviled him. the lion said to the fox, “it is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.”
"How do you feel this morning, Jacob?" asked a boy of fifteen, bending over an old man crouched in the corner of an upper room, in a poor tenement-house, distant less than a quarter
