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Evaluation do De Foe

2. Their eating, indeed, amazes me; had I flve hundred hepds, and were each head furnished with brains, yet would they ail be insufficient to compute the number of cows, pigs, geese, and

' turkies, wbich upon this occasion die for the good of their couniryl...

On the contrary, they seem to lose their temper as they lose tlieir »ppetites^ every morsel they swallow, and every glass they pour

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