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has the same effect upon the cattle flies, who may object 

 to rain on their own account, but would be very unreason- 

 able in stinging horse or cow as if they occasioned it. 

 Who does not know that a multitude of flies sting, and 

 only sting before rain ? From all which considerations, 

 the sting in insects not only may, but I think must have 

 been conferred for purposes widely different from those 

 popularly attributed to it. " When," says Cowley, " we 

 trust man concerning God, we then trust not God con- 

 cerning man." 



