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arriving to a knowledge, and notice of animals and their ſounds, much earlier than others.

And now I am ſpeaking of frights, I will recommend a method that is very uſeful, to prevent them in ſome cafes, ſuch as in making them familiar with domeſtic, or other animals, as the Dog, Cat, Horſe, Cow, &c. by perſuading them to ſtroke, or touch them, as they happen to fall in their way, which will make them as they grow up, bold in their carriage, to all ſuch creatures, otherwise timorous to a misfortune,

But this in particular, I inſiſt on, above all others, that you never mention a Bull Beggar, Tom Poker, Raw Read and Bloody Bones, &c. leſt you make ſuch