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True ! people would be in the wrong to paint covetousness in such odious colours, were it compatible with inno- cence. But here arises the mischief: a covetous man will stop at nothing to attain his ends; and when once avarice takes the field, honesty, charity, humanity, and every virtue which opposes it, are sure to be put to the rout. FABLES. THE SHIP DOG. A young" saucy Dog", having been found not to like any employment at home, was taken by a sea captain on board his ship, where, being well... fed, he soon became both stout and fierce, and shewed himself off as such in every foreign port. He no sooner got ashore, than he held up his leg against every post and corner, and scraped the ground with his feet, quite regardless what Dog he might be- spatter; and if any of them happened to look sulkily at him, he thought nothing of seizing upon and rolling them in the kennel. If he happened to fall into company, he always began to give himself airs, to talk big, and to express his contempt for the Dogs of the place.
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