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148 and in Publique Caes as well as in Private; for there is Nothing more Frequent, then for People to take their Oppreors for their Protectors, and their Protectors for Oppreors: As the Bees here Spar'd the Thief and fell foul upon them Keeper. This is the very Humour of the Mobile when they Mitake their Man.

HE Kingsfiher is a Solitary Bird, that Wonts commonly by the Water-ide, and Netles in Hollow Banks to be out of reach of the Fowlers. One of Thee Birds happen’d to be forraging abroad for her Young Ones, and in This Interim, comes a Raging Torrent, that wahes away Net, Birds and all. Upon her Return, finding how 'twas with her, he brake out into This Exclamation: Unhappy Creature that I am! to fly from the bare Apprehenion of One Enemy, into the Mouth of Another.

Fiher-man had Order’d his Net, for a Draught, and till as he was Gathering it up, he Dah’d the Water, to Fright the Fih into the Bag. Some of the Neighbourhood that look’d