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" Seventhly, I hardly remember any persons 

 " taking it up except my father and myself: I 

 " do not know whether it had any particular 

 " attachment to us. 



" Eighthly, In respect to its end, I answer 

 " this last quere. Had it not been for a tame 

 " raven, I make no doubt but it would have 

 " been now living; who one day seeing it at 

 " the mouth of its hole, pulled it out, and al- 

 " though I rescued it, pulled out one eye, and 

 " hurt it so, that notwithstanding its living a 

 " twelvemonth, it never enjoyed itself, and had 

 " a difficulty of taking its food, missing the 

 " mark for want of its eye : before that acci- 

 " dent, had all the appearance of perfect 

 " health." 



What Mr. Pitfield communicated to me 

 serves farther to evince the patient and pa- 

 cific disposition of this poor animal. If I am 

 thought to dwell too long on the subject, let it 

 be considered, that those who have most un- 

 provoked enemies, and fewest friends, claim 

 the greatest pity., and warmest vindication. This 

 reptile has undergone all sorts of scandal ; one 

 author makes it the companion of an atheist ; * 

 and Milton f makes the devil itself its inmate ; 



* A great toad was said, to have been found in the lodgings of 

 Vanini, at Toulouse. Vide Johnsons Shakespear. 

 f Paradise Lost. 



