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Aesop's Fables in J&D Latin Reader

Fable 41. Mus et Rusticus

Mus
a Rustico
in caricarum acervo deprehensus,
tam acri morsu
eius digitos vulneravit,
ut ille
eum dimitteret,
dicens:
Nihil, mehercule,
tam pusillum est,
quod
de salute desperare debeat,
modo
se defendere
et vim depulsare
velit.

The first image comes from The First Part of Jacobs & Doering's Latin Reader by E.A. Andrews (1857). The second image comes from Via Latina: An Easy Latin Reader by William C. Collar (1897). Available online at Google Books.