Two _Friends_ and a _Bear_.
_Two_ Friends that were Travelling together, had the Fortune to Meet a
_Bear_ upon the Way. They found there was no Running for’t. So the One
Whips up a Tree, and the Other throws himself Flat with his Face upon
the Ground. The _Bear_ comes directly up to him, Muzzles, and Smells to
him, puts his Nose to his Mouth, and to his Ears, and at last, taking for
Granted that ’twas only a Carcass, there he leaves him. The _Bear_ was
no sooner gone, but Down comes his Companion, and ask’d him, what it was
the _Bear_ Whisper’d him in the Ear. He bad me have a Care, says he, how
I keep Company with those, that when they find themselves upon a Pinch,
will leave their Friends in the Lurch.
The MORAL.
_Every Man for Himself, and God for us All._