A _Crow_ and a _Muscle_.
There was one of Your _Royston-Crows_, that lay Battering upon a
_Muscle_, and could not for his Blood break the Shell to come at the
Fish. A _Carrion-Crow_, in this _Interim_, comes up, and tells him,
that what he could not do by Force, he might do by Stratagem. Take this
_Muscle_ up in the Air, says the _Crow_, as High as you can carry it,
and then let him fall upon that Rock there; His Own Weight, You shall
see, shall break him. The _Roystoner_ took his Advice, and it succeeded
accordingly; but while the One was upon Wing, the Other stood Lurching
upon the Ground, and flew away with the Fish.
The MORAL.
Charity begins at Home, _they say; and most People are kind to their
Neighbours for their Own sakes_.