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" Seventhly, I hardly remember any persons 

 ■ taking it up except my father and myself: I 

 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 

 1 been now living ; who one day seeing it at 

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

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

 c hurt it so, that notwithstanding its living a 

 i 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. Pitjield 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 

 Vanird, at Toulouse. Vide Johnson's Shakespear. 

 f Paradise Lost. 



