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Pye was Wond'ring once to a Pigeon, why he would Breed till in the ame Hole, when her Young Ones were contantly taken away from her before they were able to fly. Why That's my Simplicity, ays the Pigeon, I mean no Harm, and I upect None.

Y the Beak, and the Claws of a Cuckow, one would take her for a kind of Hawk; only the One Lives upon Worms, and the Other upon Fleh: Inomuch that a Hawk Twitted a Cuckow One day with her Coure Way of Feeding. If you'l Look like a Hawk, Why don’t you Live like a Hawk? The Cuckow took This a little in Dudgeon; but paing by a Pigeon-Houe ome hort time after, what hould he ee but the Skin of This very Hawk upon a Pole, on the Top of the Dove-