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 24. The Hiſtory of the four Kings.

was ſent for; but before he came, the youth took to his heels, and ran for it with that ſwiftneſs, that, an aſs ſtanding in his way, he took hold of this tail to ſwing himſelf by, and twitched it off. A little farther, he overthrew a woman with child, and cauſed her to miſcarry. At length he was taken, and brought before a Juſtice by the three ſufferers.-Having heard their complaint, he turned to the young man and laid, Young man, ſeveral complaints are here laid againſt you, which I ſhall clear up, Firſt, Keep the money you have found, and trade with it, till you have improved it ſo far as to make him faction, and then let him have it.--You take the af and work him till a new tail grows then give him to his owner.-And you take the woman home, and lie with her, till the is as far gone with child as he was before, and then ſend her home to her huſband. So with theſe determinations he diſmiſſed them.

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