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WO Friends that were Travelling together, had the Fortune to Meet a Bear upon the Way. They found there was no Running for’t. So the One Whips up a Tree, and the Other throws himelf Flat with his Face upon the Ground. The Bear comes directly up to Him, Muzzles, and Smells to him, puts his Noe to his Mouth, and to his Ears, and at lat, taking for Granted that 'twas only a Carcas, there he leaves him. The Bear was no ooner gone, but Down comes his Companion, and ask'd him, what it was the Bear Whiper'd him in the Ear. He bad me have a Care, ays he, how | keep Company with thoe, that when they find themelves upon a Pinch, will leave their Friends in the Lurch.