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ftore the fox had got, enabled him to live well for a whole moon. He 

 then told his ftory to one of his friends the wolves, and finding his re- 

 fources nearly exhaufted, encouraged the wolf to adopt the fame expe- 

 dient. The wolf was eafiiy perfuaded ; he lay down perfonating death in 

 hopes of a rich recorapence ; when the waggonners forewarned, obferving 

 him almofl in the fame fpot where they had been impofed upon by the 

 fox, fevered his head from his body, as a jufl: puniihment for his in- 

 tended fraud, and as his ikin was of no value, drove their team over him 

 and left him. The fox waited till the road was clear, ond then drawing 

 the body afide as his perquifite, reforted to it from time to time to fup- 

 ply his neceffities. Obferving, as he pafTed along on his road homewards, 

 a hollow tree, where he had reafon to believe there was good ftore of 

 honey, he addrelTed himfelf to a hedge-hog fortunately at hand ; and 

 exprefled his wonder that he whom the great fpirit had armed with a 

 thoufand prickles, to defy a thoufand ftings, fliould fuifer fmall bees to 

 eflablifti hoards as it were in defiance under his nofe. The porcupine felt 

 the infult, bridled up his quills, and was foon introduced by the fox into 

 the hollow tree. The nation was immediately in arms. Every warrior 

 rufhed forward to punifli the invader. The remoteft inmates haflened to 

 the fcene of aftion. While the contefl; was yet undecided, the fox feizing 

 the moment of uproar, pierced the bark on the fide oppofite to the open, 

 ing, and carried away unperceived in fecret triumph, the prize they were 

 bufy fighting for. Proceeding with his treafures, he was feen and envied 

 by a young fat bear, whofe inexperience was equal to his love of honey; 

 " coufm fays the fox 1 have no honey to fpare, but if you follow me and 

 venture for it, you may have your fill". The bear followed him to the 

 bottom of a high and deep cliff. There fays the fox is a rich treafurc 

 pointing to a wafps neft of great Cze, which was fufpended from the 

 rocks near the top of the precipice, but you have neither agility nor 

 courage to attempt it. The bear piqued at being thought fluggifli, in- 

 ftantly clambered up a tree, one of the branches of which approached 

 the cliff and flinging himfelf with violence againfl the neft, which 

 he grappled with his paws, difengaged it from its faftenings, and fell 



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