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1. IN a troubled State save as much for your own as you can. A Dog had been at Market to buy a Shoulder of Mutton; coming home he met two Dogs by the way, that quarrell’d with him; he laid down his Shoulder of Mut∣ton, and fell to fighting with one of them; in the mean time the other Dog fell to eating his Mutton; he seeing that, left the Dog he was fighting with, and fell upon him that was eating; then the other Dog fell to eat; when he per∣ceiv’d there was no remedy, but which of them soever he fought withal, his Mut∣ten was in danger, he thought he would have as much of it as he could, and thereupon gave over fighting, and fell to eating himself.