Lowell, Fable for Critics; M.

Adam and Eve, according to the fable, wore the bower before other clothes.

The whole fable about how her stepson died was a fabrication.

On this occasion he recited the well-known fable of the belly and the members.

The old fable of this bird inserting its beak into a reed or plunging it into the ground, and so causing the booming sound with which its name will be always associated, is also exploded, and nowadays indeed so few people in Britain have ever heard its loud and awful voice, which seems to be uttered only in the breeding-season, and is therefore unknown in a country where it no longer breeds, that incredulity as to its booming at all has in some quarters succeeded the old belief in this as in other reputed peculiarites of the species.