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Certain Farmer had One Choice Apple-Tree in his Orchard that he Valu'd above all the ret, and he made his Landlord Every Year a Preent of the Fruit on't: He lik'd the Apples o very well, that Nothing would erve Him but Tranplanting the Tree into his Own Grounds, It Witherd preently upon the Removal, and o there was an end of both Fruit and Tree together. The News was no ooner brought to the Landlord, but he brake out into This Reflexion upon it: This comes, ays he, of Tranplanting an Old Tree, to Gratifie an Extra