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Rh no Death in the Cae, and the Vultures were not a little Troubled at the Diappointment.

Ne came to a Country Grazier, and ask'd him if he hould tell him a piece of News. Is't Good or Bad? (ays he.) Nay, ays t'other, 'tis not very Good. Pray, ays the Grazier keep it to your elf then; and o he went his way. The Grazier was telling the next day, that the Wolves had Kill'd one of his Bullocks: That’s like enough ays the ame Man; for I aw him Wand'ring from the Herd, and I was afraid on't. I would you had told me this in time, ays the Grazier. Why I came I know not how far Yeterday a-purpoe to tell you the Story, and you would not hear on't.

way of Conulting a Bodies Eae, makes a Man Acceory to his own Ruin. There’s an Attempt deign'd for the purpoe, upon the Peron of a Man; and he huts his Ears againt any Intelligence, or Notice of it, 'till the Dagger is at his Heart. He that will not hear the wort