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 rted, at, and ruled to go on; of which ſhall hear more preſently.

His matter's horſe being got paſt the dif- , needed no ſpurs, but (as frighted ſes will) flew away like the wind; and the continuing, his master, who on many ounts-was willing to be at home, let him so that he was at home and got into the ſe, long before his man Gervais could. up with him.

The maſter, as ſoon as he came into the ſwooned away, and the fright had an effect upon him, that when with difficulty they had brought him to ſelf, he continued very ill; and when his y and a ſiſter he had in the houſe with , as much oyer-run with the Hippo as ſelf, came to enquire what had happen- to him; he told them a formal ſtory, that such a bridge he met the Devil; that he ced himſelf juſt at the coming of from the ge, on his left hand, at the corner of {{reconstruct|the wall; that he ſtood and ſtared in his face, {{reconstruct|and}} that he could diſtinctly perceive it was Devil in the thape of a Bar: He gare: 0. fr deic.iptions, fo punctual 200 particolar, t there was no room to doubt but it was A apparition, and that it was in the shape 2 great bear. GERVAIS came tome ſoon after and ing into the table directly, as was his bu- eſs, to take care of his inafter's horle as
 * as his own, there he told thoitory his