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Here was a Country Fellow at work a Sowing his Grounds, and a Swallow (being a Bird famous for Providence and Foreight) call'd a company of Little Birds about her, and bad em take Good Notice what that Fellow was a doing. You mut know (ays the Swallow) that all the Fowlers Nets and Snares are made of Hemp, or Flax; and that's the Seed that he is now a Sowing. Pick it up in time for fear of what may come on't. In hort, they put it off, till it took Root; and then again, till it was prung up into the Blade. Upon this, the Swallow told em once for All, that it was not yet too Late to prevent the Michief, if they would but betir themelves, and et Heartily about it; but finding that no Heed was given to what he aid; She e'en bad adieu to her old Companions in the Woods, and o betook her elf to a City Life, and