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Rh Houe, in hort, was to be the Young Man’s Prion, and the Father made himelf his Keeper. There were a World of Paintings Every where up and down, and among the Ret, there was the Picture of a Lyon; which tirred the Bloud of the Young Man, for the Dream ake, and to think that he hould now be a Slave for the Phany of uch a Beat. In this Indignation he made a Blow at the Picture; but Striking his Fit upon the Point of a Nayle in the Wall, His Hand Cancerated; he fell into a Fever, and oon after Dy'd on’t: So that all the Father's Precaution could not Secure the Son from the Fatality of Dying, by a Lyon.

Here was a Fox taken in a Trap, that was glad to Compound for his Neck by leaving his Tayle behind him. It was o Uncouth a Sight, for a Fox to appear without a Tayle, that the very Thought on't made him e'en Weary of his Life; for 'twas a Los never to be Repair'd: But however for the Better Countenance of the Scandal, he got the Mater and Wardens of the Foxes Company to call a Court of Aitants, where he himelf appear'd, and made a Learned Dicoure upon the Trouble, the Uelesnes, and the Indecency of Foxes Wearing Tayles. He had no ooner ay'd out his Say, but up ries a Cunning Snap, then at the