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24       To sleep so near a c---d old stinking head, My senses all were nearly lost; I dreamt of nothing but a ghost; Lord, I thought should have died with dread.

Well, was not thine a dismal sight? How did thy spirits bear the fright? Why, very pleasantly, faith, (answer'd           Pierre): So far from seeing ghosts and hell, I ne'er lik'd penance half so well; And yet the head was all night at my ear.

Why, how the deuce is this? (quoth Paul) You mean to laugh at me, that's all.--- Dost take me for an ass so very dull, Then to convince thee, Paul,- (quoth         Pierre) A trifling whisper in thine ear-- I had a female body to my skull.

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