A _Bat_, _Bramble_, and _Cormorant_.
A _Bat_, a _Bramble_, and a _Cormorant_, Enter’d into Covenants with
Articles, to joyn Stocks, and Trade in Partnership together. The _Bat’s_
Adventure was Ready Money that he took up at Interest; The _Brambles_,
was in Cloaths; and the _Cormorants_, in Brass. They Put to Sea, and so
it fell out, that Ship and Goods were Both Lost by Stress of Weather:
But the Three Merchants by Providence got safe to Land. Since the Time
of this Miscarriage, the _Bat_ never Stirs abroad till _Night_ for fear
of his Creditors. The _Bramble_ lays hold of All the Cloaths he can come
at in hope to Light upon his Own again: And the _Cormorant_ is still
Sauntering by the Sea side, to see if he can find any of his Brass cast
up.
The MORAL.
_The Impression of any Notable Misfortune will commonly stick by a Man as
long as he Lives._