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 exhausted; and seeing a barn near me, I made a shift to stagger thither where the door being open I went and threw myself on a truss of straw, hoping some person would come to my relief I had not lain many minutes, when a countryman came in with a pitchfork in his hand and was going to thrust it into the straw that concealed me had I not uttered a terrible groan This alarmed the clown who stared back with the pitchfork before him; then an old man arrived, who seeing the other in such a posture. cried, "Mercy upon the lead's bewitch'd! Why, Dick, best thou  thyself?" Replied Dick "O vather! vather! here be either the devil a dead mon; but his groans woundily"  behold me then he addressed me thus:  name of the Vather,, and  Ghost, I charge you and you  Satan  to the Red ; but  if you be a  man, speak that you  have a  burial. I endeavoured to raise one hand as a signal of distress; making  among the  to frighten the young  that he  door,  his father in  flight—The old man, to save the time of getting Rh