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Mrs. Margery Two-Shoes.
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you might make all the Sailors happy, and have twenty thouſand Pounds for teaching them the Longitude.

You would not think Ralph the Raven half ſo wiſe and ſo good as he is, though you ſee him here reading his book. Yet when the Prophet Elijah, was obliged to fly from Ahab King of Iſrael and hide himſelf in a Cave, the Ravens, at the Command of God Almighty, fed him every Day, and preſerved his Life.

And the Word of the Lord came unto Elijah, ſaying, Hide thyſelf by the Brook Cherith, that is before Jordan, and I have commanded the Ravens to feed thee there. And the Ravens brought him Bread and Fleſh in the Morning, and Bread and Fleſh in the Evening, and he drank of the Brook,
Kings, B. I. C. 17.

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