An _Eagle_ and a _Tortoise_.
A _Tortoise_ was thinking with himself, how Irksom a sort of Life it was,
to spend All his Days in a Hole, with a House upon his Head, when so many
Other Creatures had the Liberty to Divert Themselves in the Free, Fresh
Air, and to Ramble about at Pleasure. So that the Humor took him One Day,
and he must needs get an _Eagle_ to teach him to Fly. The _Eagle_ would
fain have put him off, and told him, ’twas a Thing against Nature, and
Common Sense; but (according to a Freak of the Wilful Part of the World)
the More the One was Against it, the More the Other was For it: And when
the _Eagle_ saw that the _Tortoise_ would not be said _Nay_, she took him
up a matter of _Steeple-high_ into the Air, and there turn’d him Loose
to shift for Himself. That is to say; she dropt him down, _Squab_ upon a
Rock, that Dash’d him to Pieces.
The MORAL.
_Nothing can be either Safe, or Easy that’s Unnatural._