JUPITER ISSUED a proclamation to all the beasts of the forest and

　　promised a royal reward to the one whose offspring should be

　　deemed the handsomest. The Monkey came with the rest and

　　presented, with all a mother's tenderness, a flat-nosed,

　　hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the

　　promised reward. A general laugh saluted1 her on the presentation

　　of her son. She resolutely2 said, "I know not whether Jupiter

　　will allot3 the prize to my son, but this I do know, that he is at

　　least in the eyes of me his mother, the dearest, handsomest, and

　　most beautiful of all."