1.One gloomy day,the clock on a church steeple,looking down on a sundial,said,"How stupid it is in you to stand there all the while like a stock!
2."You never tell the hour till a bright sun looks forth from the sky,and gives you leave. I go merrily round,day and night,i n s umm er and winter t he sa me,w i t h o u t a sk i n g h is leave.
3."I tell the people the time to rise,to g o to dinner,and to come to church.
4."Hark!I am going to strike now; one,two,three,four. There it is for you. How silly you look!You can say nothing."5.The sun,at that moment,broke forth from behind a cloud,and showed,by the sundial,that the clock was half an hour behind the right time.
6.The boasting clock now held his tongue,and the dial only smiled at his folly.
7.MORAL.-Humble modesty is more often right than a proud and boasting spirit.