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(4) In passing through a wood, they were met by a gang of highwavmenhighwaymen [sic], who immediately seized upon the Horse that was carrying the treasure: but the spirited Steed not being altogether disposed to stand so quietly as was necessary for their purpose, they beat him most unmercifully, and after plundering him of his boasted load, left him to lament at his leisure the cruel bruises he had received. Friend, said his despised companion to him, who had now reason to triumph in his turn, distinguished posts are often dangerous to those who possess them: if you had served a Miller, as I do, you might have travelled the road unmolested.

The Cameleon.

WO travellers happened on their journey to be engaged in a warm dispuit about the colour of the Camelion. One of them affirmed, it was blue; that he had seen it with his own eyes, upon the naked branch of a tree, feeding on the air, in a very clear day. The other strongly asserted it was green, and that he had viewed it very closely and minutely on the broad leaf of a