A _Farmer_ and his _Servant_.
A Country Farmer miss’d an Ox out of his Grounds, and sent his Man abroad
one Day to look after him. The Simpleton went Hunting up and down, till
at last he found him in a Wood; but upon Three Birds coming cross him,
away goes he Scampering after them. He stay’d so long upon the Errand,
that his Master Wonder’d what was become of him; and so Abroad he goes to
look for his Man; and there was he in a Field hard by, running as hard
as he could drive, and Staring up into the Air. Well, says the Master,
what News? Why Master, says the Tony, I have found them. Ay, but says the
Farmer again, Where are they? And what have ye found? Why look ye there
they are, says the Fellow; I have found Three Birds here, and I’m trying
if I can Catch ’em.
The MORAL.
_We have this Fool Moraliz’d abundantly to us in Common Practice.
We leave the main End and Business of Life Unregarded, to run after
Butterflies._