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to which gluttony was the incentive, if any 
theft of eatables was difcovered, Kees was in- 
ftantly accufed, and the accufation was feldom 
unfounded. 
On this occafioil I was defirous of fatisfylng 
myfelf whether I was right in my conjedure : 
and the next morning I kept on the watch, till 
the hen ihould inform me by her cries of having 
laid. Kees was then on my waggon : but no 
iboner did he hear the firft cackle of the hen, 
than he leaped upon the ground, and was run- 
ning to the egg. Stopped unexpededly by 
my prefence, he affected a carelefs attitude^' 
balanced himfelf awhile on his hind-legs, and, 
winking his eyes with a filly air, walked back- 
ward and forward feveral times before me ; in 
fhort, he employed all his cunning to take ofF 
my attention, and deceive me refpeding his 
defign. Thefe hypocritical manoeuvres con^ 
firmed me in my fufpicions ; and prefently I 
was convinced of the truth, when, to deceive 
him in my turn, pretending to turn my back 
on the bufh, I faw him dart towards it and 
bear away the egg. I ran^ after him, and ar- 
rived juft at the moment when, having broken^ 
the fliell, he was fwallowing its contents . 1% 
will 
