[Illustration: THE FORESTER AND THE LION.]
The Forester meeting with a Lion one day, they discoursed together for
awhile without differing much in opinion. At last, a dispute happening
to arise about the superiority between a Man and a Lion, the Man,
wanting a better argument, showed the Lion a marble monument, on which
was placed the statue of a man striding over a vanquished Lion.--'If
this,' says the Lion, 'is all you have to say for it, let us be the
carvers, and we will make the Lion striding over the Man.'