At a country fair there was a buffoon1 who made all the peoplelaugh by imitating the cries of various animals. He finished offby squeaking3 so like a pig that the spectators thought that he hada porker concealed4 about him. But a countryman who stood by said:"Call that a pig s squeak2! nothing like it. you give me tilltomorrow and I will show you what it's like." The audiencelaughed, but next day, sure enough, the countryman appeared on thestage, and putting his head down squealed5 so hideously6 that thespectators hissed8 and threw stones at him to make him stop. "Youfools!" He cried, "See what you have been hissing," And held up alittle pig whose ear he had been pinching to make him utter thesqueals. 
Men often applaud an imitation and hiss7 the real thing. 