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down his game, and ran back to his sons. Though he was deeply wounded and mortified by their wickedness, he could not forsake them, but gave them herbs to bring them back to their senses. Being much troubled about them, after leaving them long enough by themselves to have had time for reflection, he called them to him one night and remonstrated with them on their murder of their mother, who had been their nourisher, and on their disobedience to him; but they were surly and said nothing. He told them, "Sons, you have said in your hearts, we can do even without our father; _ and, beware! _ your father may leave you to yourselves."_ Finding no change in their deportment, the next night he again reproved them for having trifled with the ample means he had provided for their support and told them he was resolved, at length, to punish their waywardness by withdrawing from them altogether. _ The Sons did not believe that their father was quite in earnest, but they had no objection to being relieved from the restraint of his presence. Besides, they said to one another, that their father, being an old man, could not see so clearly and they; _ the game they had set at large in the forest must