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Then Simon taking his bafket of eggs,

fudged to the market, but was no fooner

there, than feeing a vaft crowd of

people, he refolved to know what was the

matter. When upon inquiry he found

that two butter-women had fallen on

to that degree that they had taken one

another by the coif, their hair and fillets

flying about their ears, which Simon fee-

ing, he was moved with compaffion, and

to part them but in vain ; poor Simon

as ftill unfortunate, and came off with