THE MOLE AND HER DAM.

The young Mole snuffed up her nose, and told her Dam she smelt an odd

kind of a smell. Bye and bye, O strange! says she, what a noise there

is in my ears, as if ten thousand hammers were going. A little after,

she was at it again: look, look, what is that I see yonder? it is just

like the flame of a fiery furnace. The Dam replied, pray child hold

your idle tongue; and if you would have us allow you any sense at all,

do not affect to shew more than nature has given you.

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