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396 not certain, (in uch an Intance as this,) is in danger; and 'tis ill Venturing (Neck and all epecially,) where a Body is not very ure, whether it be a Hawk or a Cuckow.

Company of Hungry Curs Dicover’d a Raw-Hide in the Bottom of a River, and lay'd their Heads together how to come at it: They Canvas'd the matter one way and ‘tother, and brought it to this Iue in the Concluion, that the only way to get it, was to Drink their way to't. So they fell to Lapping and Guzzling, 'till in one Word, they Burt themelves, and never the nearer.

Ne Hir'd an As in the Dog-Days to carry certain Bails of Goods to uch a Town: 'T'was Extream Hot, o that he lay down upon the Way to Refreh himelf under the Shade