The Fables of Pilpay

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FABLE II. THE FALCON AND THE RAVEN. There were once two Falcons which had built their nests near one another in a very high mountain, from whence they flew every way round them to seek food for their young ones. One day, as they were flown abroad upon the same design, they stayed from their nests a little...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: FABLE II. THE FALCON AND THE RAVEN. There were once two Falcons which had built their nests near one another in a very high mountain, from whence they flew every way round them to seek food for their young ones. One day, as they were flown abroad upon the same design, they stayed from their nests a little too long; for, in the mean time, one of the young ones, very hungry, put his head so far out of the nest to look for them, that he tumbled over, and fell from the top to the foot of the mountain; at this instant, a Raven, that happened to be in that part, met with the fallen youngling, and at first took it for a Rat which some other Raven had accidentally let fall; but, on more examination, finding by his beak and his talons that he was a bird of prey, he began to have a kindness for him; and looking upon himself as an instrument ordained by Heaven to save the helpless creature, carried it to his own nest, and bred it up with his own young ones, where the Falcon grew everyday bigger and bigger, and, coming at length to be of age to make reflections, nobly began to say to himself, If I am brother to these Ravens, why am I not made as they are? And if I am not of their race and progeny, why do I tarry here? One day as he was taken up with these meditations, Son, said the Raven to him, I have observed thee for some time to be very sad and pensive; I conjure thee, let me know the cause of it: if anything grieves thee, conceal it not from me, for I will endeavor thy relief and consolation. I know not myself, replied the Falcon, the reason of my desires, but I have long resolved to beg your permission to travel. O Son, cried the Raven, thou art forming a design in thy young imagination, which my riper years can inform thee will create in thee an...