Yale Record. ~Evidence.~ Of all the lines that volumes fill, Since Aesop first his fables told, The wisest is the proverb old, That every Jack must have his Jill.

Well, it was like this, my dear Agraféna Kondrátyevna: it isn't as if it were a proverb, in a kind of fable, but a real occurrence.

Major Beamish has accommodated military tactics to the nursery in a pleasant little sketch; and the proverb of Much Coin Much Care, by Mrs. R.S. Jameson is a little farce for the same stage.

Remember also an Arabian proverb which tells us that on the tree of silence there hangs its fruit, which is peace.

They soon discover the truth of the Arabian proverb: Joke with a slave, and he'll show you his heels.

There is nothing to prevent those who live on the common labor of their hands from treating their earnings in that way if they like; because their kind of skill is not likely to disappear, or, if it does, it can be replaced by that of their fellow-workmen; morever, the kind of work they do is always in demand; so that what the proverb says is quite true, a useful trade is a mine of gold.

Joke with a slave, and he'll soon show his heels, is an excellent Arabian proverb; nor ought we to despise what Horace says,

Therefore Minus malum, [6205]a less mischief, Nevisanus holds, dissimulare, to be [6206]Cunarum emptor, a buyer of cradles, as the proverb is, than to be too solicitous.

In the other extreme some are too liberal, as the proverb is, Turdus malum sibi cacat, they make a rod for their own tails, as Candaules did to Gyges in Herodotus, commend his wife's beauty himself, and besides would needs have him see her naked.

In the mean time,dii talem terris avertite pestem, [6301]as the proverb is, from heresy, jealousy and frenzy, good Lord deliver us.

He quotes the proverba proverb which reveals a whole history"So many slaves, so many foes," and proves that they are not foes, but that men made them so; whereas, when kindly treated, when considerately addressed, they would be silent, even under torture, rather than speak to their master's disadvantage.

The old proverb or adage, which states that the man who makes two blades of grass grow where one grew before is a public benefactor, would seem to proclaim that Oklahoma is peopled with philanthropists, for the sturdy pioneers who braved hardship and ridicule in order to obtain a foothold in this promised land, have, in five or six years, completely changed the appearance of the country.

It is a proverb, that he who is a fool at forty will be a fool at fourscore; yet Mr. Cushing, who is certainly no fool, had been blind to the beauties of Original Democracy for a year or two beyond that alliterative era.

Yet the proverb holds good with the stock-jobber.

Taurea, bold in words more than in reality, said, "Never be the ass in the ditch;" an expression which from this circumstance became a common proverb among rustics.

Ray gives the proverb, "Bush natural, more hair than wit.

Beauty is the appanage of the Saxon women, hence the proverb in rhyme: Darauf bin ich gegangen nach Sachsen, Wo die schönen Mädchen auf den Baümen wachsen.

He begins thus: "Occasionally, having to retire into the country more conveniently and uninterruptedly to finish some business, on a particular holiday, as I was walking I came to a neighbouring village, where the greater part of the old and young men were assembled, in groups of separate ages, for, according to the proverb, 'Each seeks his like.'

[Illustration: Fig. 86.Stall of Carved Wood (Fifteenth Century), representing the Proverb, "Margaritas ante Porcos," "Throwing Pearls before Swine," from Rouen Cathedral.]

This was the origin of the proverb which described a cheat as "a dealer in goat by halves.

There was an old proverb, "Who eats the king's goose returns the feathers in a hundred years."

Hares were preferred to rabbits, provided they were young; for an old French proverb says, "An old hare and an old goose are food for the devil.

For though he was good-natured, he was very shiftless, and it was, as our national proverb says, "like pulling teeth" to teach him.

How Effie got entangled with this youth we have no means of knowing, so we must be contented with the Scotch proverb "Tell me where the flea may bite,

But, as it frequently happens in life that the proverb, "man proposes and God disposes," proves true, such was the case in the present instanceinstead of the temples, I saw a tiger-hunt.