An old fox is not easily to be taken in a snare; age has made him cautious. The proverb may be applied to persons attempting to impose upon us, and to excite compassion by the relation of some affecting but improbable story. «Quære peregrinum», tell your tale to one less acquainted with you, or with the circumstances you are relating; they will gain you no credit here. A otro perro, con esse huesso, throw that bone to another dog.

Persons quitting a business or profession in which they have been long engaged, and had been successful, and attempting some new employment, are as little likely to succeed, as a tree is to flourish, when removed from the soil in which it had been long fixed.