[Illustration: THE WIND AND THE SUN.]
A dispute once arose between the north Wind and the Sun, about the
superiority of their power; and they agreed to try their strength upon a
traveller, which should be able to get his cloak off first. The north
Wind began, and blew a very cold blast, accompanied with a sharp driving
shower. But this, and whatever else he could do, instead of making the
man quit his cloak, obliged him to gird it about his body as close as
possible. Next came the Sun, who, breaking out from a thick watery
cloud, drove away the cold vapours from the sky, and darted his warm
sultry beams upon the head of the poor weather-beaten traveller. The man
growing faint with the heat, and unable to endure it any longer, first
throws off his heavy cloak, and then flies for protection to the shade
of a neighbouring grove.