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 ,” aid one of the hags, “hall be granted; yet, perhaps for ever hall you and him you call friend be parted. Liten then to what we tell.”

“King of men,” aid, with a voice deeply toned, the firt, “what this night meets thy wondering fight, if ever by thee revealed, hall work thy overthrow; but what thou hear, believe, ’tis caution good.”

The econd poke.–“Thy foes are friends; thy friends are foes; and thoe thou trut will thee deceive; plots urround, and ome hall tand, and ome hall fall; ere to-morrow’s un is et, wonderous tales hall meet thine ears.”

“Care and trouble cloud thy days,” cried in hollow accents the third; “wild dipute and bloody treaon mark thy reign; and, trange to tell, ere Scotia’s crown thy on adorns, a lion by its whelps hall be devoured.”

The firt, then turning to Edmund, began:

cried the econd and ceaed.

The third took up the tale,

All three then loudly, in hoare accents, cried,

The liquid contained in one horn was thrown on the king; a econd was poured over Edmund: and the third into the fire; when the hags joining their hands, wheeled round it with a flying motion–the flame forook the wood. Borne upward in a chariot of fire, the three figures acended through the outlet in the roof, formed for the moke, which filled the hall with a uffocating and offenive mell.

The animals et up the mot horrid cries; and urrounded by darknes, our adventurers knew not which