Coloring Pictures Of Insects

The Old Man and the Three Young Men.

As an old man was planting a tree, three young men came along and beganto make sport of him, saying: "It shows your foolishness to be plantinga tree at your age. The tree cannot bear fruit for many years, while youmust very soon die. What is the use of your wasting your time inproviding pleasure for others to share long after you are dead?" The oldman stopped in his labor and replied: "Others before me provided for myhappiness, and it is my duty to provide for those who shall come afterme. As for life, who is sure of it for a day? You may all die beforeme." The old man's words came true; one of the young men went on avoyage at sea and was drowned, another went to war and was shot, and thethird fell from a tree and broke his neck.

We should not think wholly of ourselves, and we should remember thatlife is uncertain.

From Aesop's Fables