The Buffoon and the Countryman

　　laugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished off　by squeaking so like a pig that the spectators thought that he had a porker concealed about him. But a Countryman who stood by said:

　　"Call that a pig s squeak! Nothing like it. You give me till　tomorrow and I will show you what it's like." The audience　laughed, but next day, sure enough, the Countryman appeared on the　　stage, and putting his head down squealed so hideously that the　spectators hissed and threw stones at him to make him stop. "You　　fools!" he cried, "see what you have been hissing," and held up a little pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter the　squeals.

　　Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.