A COLLECTION OF

FABLES ILLUSTRATED BY FACTS.

BY

WM. OLAND BOURNE, A. M.,

REGISTRAR AND ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN OF THE NEW-YORK FREE ACADEMY.

FOURTH EDITION.

NEW-YORK:

LEAVITT & ALLEN, 27 DEY STREET.

1854.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern Dis trict of New York.

TO

Samuel W. Seton, Esq.,

OF NEW YORK,

THE FRIEND OF YOUTH,

WHOSE LABOURS

HAVE WRITTEN HIS NAME INEFFACEABLY ON THE HEARTS

OF THOUSANDS,

THIS VOLUME,

AS A TRIBUTE OF SINCERE ADMIRATION AND REGARD,

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY

THE COMPILER.