Explore "Characters from Life; Or, Moral Hints. In Verse" by James Parkerson on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Three Jackalls were a prawling sent / It is supposed with ill intent, / At least to make a prey: / On any thing they saw was good; / So dashing furious in a wood, / They seiz'd without delay,
An Orange Tree well hung with fruit, / It apt the Lion's taste to suit, / By Jackalls forced away.