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Rh you might make all the Sailors happy, and have twenty thouand Pounds for teaching them the Longitude.

You would not think Ralph the Raven half o wie and o good as he is, though you ee him here reading his book. Yet when the Prophet Elijah, was obliged to fly from Ahab King of Irael and hide himelf in a Cave, the Ravens, at the Command of God Almighty, fed him every Day, and preerved his Life.

And the Word of the Lord came unto Elijah, aying, Hide thyelf by the Brook Cherith, that is before Jordan, ''and I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. And the Ravens brought him Bread and Fleh in the Morning, and Bread and Fleh in the Evening, and he drank of the Brook,'' Kings, B. I. C. 17.

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