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there was a adan seville who took to one of the drollestabsurdities and vagaries that ever adan the world gave way to ias this: he ade a tube of reed sharp at one end, and catchg adog the street, or wherever it ight be, he with his foot heldone of its legs fast, and with his hand lifted up the other, and asbest he uld fixed the tube where, by blog, he ade the dog asround as a ball; then holdg it this position, he gave it a upleof slaps on the belly, and let it go, sayg to the bystanders （andthere were always plenty of the）： &ot;do your worships thk, now,that it is an easy thg to blow up a dog?&ot;- does your worship thknow, that it is an easy thg to write a book?

and if this story does not suit hi, you ay, dear reader, tellhi this one, which is likewise of a adan and a dog

rdova there was another adan, whose way it was to carry apiece of arble slab or a stone, not of the lightest, on his head, andwhen he ca upon any unwary dog he ed to draw close to hi andlet the weight fall right on of hi; on which the dog a ra,barkg and howlg, would run three streets without spg it happened, however, that one of the dogs he dis插rd his load uponwas a cap-aker&039;s dog, of which his aster was very fond the stoneca down hittg it on the head, the dog raised a yell at the blow,the aster saw the affair and was wroth, and snatchg up aasurg-yard ru射d out at the adan and did not leave a und bone his body, and at every stroke he gave hi he said, &ot;you dog, youthief! y rcher