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192 he was Then Muzzling, and Cokeing of it. That's a Good Dear, ays he, If the Wolfe comes for My Child, We'll e'en Beat bis Brains out. The Wolfe went Muttering away upont. There's No Meddling with People, ays he, that ay One Thing and Mean Another.

Tortoie was thinking with himelf, how Irkom a ort of Life it was, to pend All his Days in a Hole, with a a Houe upon his Head, when o many Other Creatures had the Liberty to Divert Themelves in the Free, Freh Air, and to Ramble about at Pleaure. So that the Humor took him One Day, and he mut needs get an Eagle to Teach him to Fly. The Eagle would fain have put him off, and told him 'twas a Thing againt Nature, and Common Sene; but (according to the Freak of the Wilful Part of the World) the More the One was Againt it, the More the Other was For it: And when the Eagle aw that the Tortoie would not be aid Nay, he took him up a matter of Steeple-high into the Air, and there turn’d him Looe to hift for Himelf. That is to ay; he dropt him down, Squab upon a Rock, that Dah’d him to Pieces.