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[ $24". 1 that péruièá it, he addressed the messenge: and said, `Why will-Amasis who possesses so large a country and commands so many fien, drink up the sea for a few obscure villages?" The messenger replied, if he was deshroots of doing it, tell mehow he may accom. plish it. ' The?hilosopher answereà, the demand of the king of Ethiopia concerns only that which is now in the sea, not that which shall hereafter flowinto it. Bid the king with. hbli the rivers from running into the sea until Amasis shall have drunk up that which is now thereia. This ingenious reply delightod the philosophers, and the king's messenger returned with great satisfaction. r .98. Lord stair and Louis XV. iðuis XV. was told that Lörd Stair, the English embassador at his Court, was ess offie bëst bied men in Europe; ishailsson połim to the the test, said: the king, and