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 of the course of shunning the approaching hazard, he leaned on the stone above-mentioned, who was forthwith surrounded by his pursuers; but he being a man of such splendid courage and power of body, that he defended himself by the sword, that his pursuers could not prevail to overcome him, till at last one of them got up on the top of the stone, that he came unaware upon him, by which intellectual plan got her daggered. Ever since that time, as hitherto, the stone called the Stone of Envie, in memory of the man’s name.

In the ancient time, when the woods was more copious repletion both on the hills and on the level than it is at present, particular the oaks, which woods was a habitation to voracious wild animals, such as wolfs, which animal would slipped imperceptibly to houses, eluding observation, when the people at the ﬁeld acting in their domestic management, a certain man, after being disengaged of his dies employment, upon his return to his house, he directed his eyes through the window to meet hypochondrical discovery of his youngest child on the one side of the ﬁre, and the wolf on the other side. Upon the child to have an idea of being one of his father’s dogs,