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( 16 ) from under the bed. But how great was their ſurpriſe and ſhame, when they diſcoyered that this tormenting devil was no other than one of the ſervant girls, about ſixteen years of age, who had been confined to her bed ſeveral months by illneſs.

Another—from the ſame.

NOTHER apparition had for a long a time ſtole many geeſe, turkeys, &c. and although it had been ſeen by many, yet nobody would venture to go near it until at length one perſon a little wiſer than the reſt of his neighbours ſeeing the famous apparition all over white ſtealing his fowls, was determined to be fully ſatisfied what kind of a ſpirit it could be that had ſo great a predilection for poultry. He accordingly went round the yard, and as the apparition was coming over the wall, he knocked it down, and found that this terrible ghoſt was a neighbouring woman, who had put on her ſhroud, in order to deter any perſons ſhould they by chance ſee her, from coming near her. Thus, though ſhe had for a long time ſucceſsfully practited this new way of procuing poultry, the old fox was caught at laſt.