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Then Simon taking his bafket of eggs,
fudged to the market, but was no fooner
(illegible text) there, than feeing a vaft crowd of
people, he refolved to know what was the
matter. When upon inquiry he found
that two butter-women had fallen on

(illegible text) to that degree that they had taken one
another by the coif, their hair and fillets
(illegible text) flying about their ears, which Simon fee-
ing, he was moved with compaffion, and
(illegible text) to part them but in vain ; poor Simon
as ftill unfortunate, and came off with