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taking their part, though none had so much as
they desired.

Then said the fox, ‘ Nephew, how like you
my children Rossel and Reynardine? J hope
they will do honour to our family; they are

towardly, I assure you, for the one lately caught

 

a chicken, and the other hath killed a pullet;
they are also good duckers, and can both
deceive the lapwing and the mallard. I tell
you true, I dare already adventure them far,
only I mean first to instruct them how to
escape the gins, and to avoid both the hunts-
man and his hounds. They are of the right