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an warlocks, de'ils, brownies and fairies! Well awat that is true, ſaid I, and that thou ſhalt know, thou hard-hearted wretch, who would have people to ſtarve, or provoke them to ſteal. With that I roſe, and lifts twa or three long ſtraws, and caſting knots on then, into the byre I went, and throws a knotted ſtraw to every cow's ſtake, ſaying, Thy days ſhall not be long! -- The wife followed, wringing both her hands, earneſtly, praying for herſelf and all that was hers.-- I then came out at the door, and lifted a ſtone,-running three times round about, and threw it over the houſe, muttering ſome words which I knew not myſelf, and concluding with theſe words, Thou Monſieur Diable, brother to Beelzebub, god of Ekron, take this wife's kirn, butter and milk, ſap and ſubſtance, without and within, ſo that ſhe may die in miſery, as the would have others to live. --The wife the aforeſaid ſentence, clapt her hands; and called out another old woman as fooliſh as herſelf, who came crying after us to come back. Back we went, where the made us eat heartily of butter and cheeſe; then the earneſtly pleaded with me to go and lift my cantrups, which I did, upon her promiſing never to deny a hungry traveller meat nor drink, whether they had money to pay for't or not; and never to ſerve the poor with the old preverb. Go home to your own pariſh; but give them