been lurking about for his expected comrade, to assist him in dragging the water for the carp, and had intended to solace himself in the mean while with a bottle of ale, thought it most prudent to decamp from the premises, quite unable to account for the adventure, but not in the least doubting that the mad lady, as he took her to be, had run to the house for the purpose of alarming the servants.

END OF THE FIRST VOLUME.

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