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CLASSIFICATION. "You are right," says Mr. O'Brien, "about ‘The Whale and the Grasshopper. ' It is a sort of fable and like the other sketches in my book it was written for the sake of the philosophy and humor. The starting point of the narrative was the remark of Padna Dan ‘As the Whale said to the Grasshopper,' which I considered a good title, and accordingly wrote the phantasy."
Read as a sort of parallel, Emerson's "The Mountain and the Squirrel. " What is the difference in the mental attitude of the two authors?