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Crow that was Extream Thirty, found a Pitcher with a Little Water in’t, but it lay o Low he could not come at it. He try’d firt to Break the Pot, and then to Over-turn it, but it was both too Strong, and too Heavy for him. He Bethought Himelf However of a Device at lat that did his Bus'nes; which was, by Dropping a great many Little Pebbles into the Water, and Raiing it That Way, till he had it within Reach.

Here was a Controverie Started betwixt a Lyon and a Man, which was the Braver, and the Stronger Creature of the Two. VVhy look ye, ays the Man (after a Long Dipute) we'll Appeal to That Statue there, and o he hew'd him the Figure of a Man Cut in Stone, with a Lyon under his Feet. VVell! ays the Lyon, if We had been brought up to Painting and Carving, as You are, where you have One Lyon under the Feet of a Man, you hould have had Twenty Men under the Paw of a Lyon.