Page:Fables of Aesop and other eminent mythologists.djvu/139

Rh

HE Bever is a kind of an Amphibious Creature, but he lives Motly in the Water. His Stones, they fay, are Med'cinal; and it is principally for Their Sake he knows, that People eek his Life; and therefore when he finds himelf Hard Pinch’d, he Bites ‘em off, and by leaving Them to his Puruers, he Saves Himelf.