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ployment. The cat attaches herfelf folely to the 

 houfe. If the mafter removes, fhe returns alone 

 at night to her old habitation. She differs effen- 

 tially in this from the dog, who attaches himfelf 

 folely to the perfon of his mafler. The cat has the 

 affeétion of a courtier, and the dog that of a 

 friend ; the former adheres to the poffeflion, and 

 the latter to the man. 



The weevil and the moth, fometimes, commit, 

 it is true, great depredations among our grain and 

 our woollens. Some Writers have told us, that 

 the common hen is fufficient to clear the granaries 

 of them : poffibly it may be fo. We have, be- 

 fides, the fpider and the fwallow, which dedroy 

 them at the feafon when they take wing. I (liall 

 here confider only their political utility. On look- 

 ing into thofe prodigious magazines where mono- 

 polizers hoard up the provifion and clothing of a 

 whole province, are we not bound to blefs the 

 Hand that created the infedl which obliges them 

 to bring thefe neceffary commodities to market ? 

 Were grain as incorruptible as gold and filver, it 

 would foon become as fcarce. See under how 

 many locks and doors thefe metals are fecured. 

 The commonalty would, at length, be completely 

 deprived of their fubfiftence, if it were as little 

 fufceptible of change as that which is the reprefen- 

 tative of it. The mite and the moth firfl lay the 



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