The Arguing Fruits

The Fabled Thread

There happen’d a controversie once betwixt a peach, and an apple, which was the fairer fruit of the two. They were so loud in their discourse, disturbing all plants, flower and berries around them. So frought did the discussion become, a blackberry from the next hedg, over-heard them. Come (says the blackberry) we are all friends, and pray let’s have no jangling among our selves. Every thing would be thought greater in the world then it is, and the root of it is this, that it first thinks it sel