he’s a Pimp, and was raised by the Hens of his Family:  He’ll make no Bones of telling another, if his Prudence made him decline Danger, that he’s a Coward:  A Third he’ll impudently remind of his former Livery, tho’ his good Fortune has raised him to the Title of a Grandee.  Nay, he had the Face to tell me, upon my refusing to take his Petition, That it was great Pity, when I was imprisoned for Peculation, that the Justice of the Nation did not first purge, and then hang me; that I was a publick Robber, and deserv’d the Gallows more richly than a common Thief.  His Poverty and Folly made me pity and pardon him, if leaving him to be laugh’d at and starv’d, are to be esteemed no Punishment.  As I really pity’d the Fowl, I found where he lodged, and supplied him with sufficient to keep him above Want, tho’ I would never trust him with the Knowledge of his Benefactor, nor would ever after be seen to give him the least Countenance.”

The Character of the Cacklogallinians in general.

The Cacklogallinians were, in former Ages, a Wise and a Warlike Nation, both fear’d and esteem’d by their Neighbours.  Their Blood was pure, without being mix’d with that of the Owls, Magpies, Eagles, Vulturs, Jays, Partridges, Herns, Hawks, or any other Species; the Scum of which Nation, by the Fertility of the Country, and the want of Foresight in the Cacklogallinians, has been allured to, and permitted to settle in Cacklogallinia, and by their Intermarriages has caused the great Degeneracy those Families, which have kept their Blood untainted, complain of.

The History of their Neighbours are standing Witnesses of the Worth of their Ancestors, and shew the vast Difference between the ancient and modern Cacklogallinians.  The former, tho’ tenacious of their Liberty, were remarkable for their Loyalty; and each thought it his peculiar Interest zealously to promote that of the Publick.  But not to be prolix in the Character of the old Cacklogallinians, I shall give it in few Words.  They were what the English now are, Wise, Modest, Brave, Human, Loyal, Publick-spirited, capable of governing their own, and conquering other Kingdoms; Hospitable to Strangers:  They encourag’d Merit, and abominated Flattery.  A Pimp in those Days wou’d have starv’d, and even the Concubine of a Prince not been admitted among Hens of Virtue, tho’ to make the Fortune of a Husband.  There was no Upstarts among the Nobility, and if any were rais’d to Titles, it was by Force of a conspicuous Merit, which gave a Lustre to the August Assembly in which he was enroll’d.  Justice was impartially administer’d, and the selling of the People to a Prince or Minister, was a Villainy unknown.  None bribed the People to chuse ’em for their Representatives; Posts in the Government were given to Fowls capable to serve it, without being burthened with this or that Family, nor were their