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THE HAWK AND THE FARMER. 



A Hawk, in the eagerness of his pursuit after a 

 Pigeon, flew with such violence against the corner 

 of a hedge, that he was stunned and fell. A 

 Farmer, who had been looking about his fields, 

 saw the whole transaction, and instantly ran and 

 picked up the Hawk, and was going to kill him; 

 but the latter begged the Man would let him go, 

 assuring him he was only following a Pigeon, and 

 neither intending nor had done, any harm to him. 

 To which the Farmer replied, and what harm had 

 the Pigeon done to you r and wrung his head off 

 immediately. 



APPLICATION. 



IN all our transactions through life, to suppose 

 ourselves in the place of those we may be dealing 



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