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give him, to which (hopeless otherwise of en- 

 trance) he consented. The Duke highly affected 

 with the rarity, was about giving him a good re- 

 ward, which the other refused, desiring his 

 highness would appoint one of his guards to 

 give an hundred lashes, that so the porter might 

 have fifty, according to his composition." And 

 here my intelligence leaveth me, how much far- 

 ther the jest was followed. 



The same author relates from a book, intituled 

 " Vox Pisces" printed in 1626: "That one 

 Mr. Anderson, a townsman and merchant of 

 Newcastle, talking with a friend on Newcastle 

 Bridge, and playing with his ring, let it fall 

 into the river ; but it having been swallowed by 

 a fish, afterwards taken, the ring was found aod 

 restored to him." Northumberland Worthies, 

 p. 310. A like story is related of Polycratcs, 

 King of Samos, by Herodotus. 







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BATTLE BETWEEN A PIKE AND A FROG. 



As the Bishop of Bohemia and Bishop Thurzo 

 were walking by a large pond in Bohemia, they 

 saw a Frog, when the Pike lay very sleepily 

 and quiet by the shore, leap upon his head, 



