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Here was a Brood of Young Larks in the Corn, and the Dam, when he went abroad to Forrage for them, laid a Strict Charge upon her Little Ones, to pick up what News they could get againt he came back again. They told her at her Return, that the Owner of the Field had been there, and Order'd his Neigbours to come and Reap the Corn. Well, ays the Old One, thersthere's [sic] no Danger yet then. They told her the next Day that he had been there again, and Deir'd his Friends to Do't. Well, well, ays he, there's no Hurt in That neither, and o he went out a Progging for Proviions again as before. But upon the Third Day, when they told their Mother, that the Mater and his Son appointed to come the Next Morning about it Themelves: Nay then, ays