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 in danger of starving before he comes down again. Is it not true what I say Ralph? Says he, indeed, when I went up I took a twelve- penny loaf with me, and eat it all before I came down again; and when I was in the uppermost room, I could hear the people talk in the other world, but I could not understand what they said. This story made the gentleman and his wife stand in the greatest amazement. So the dinner being ready, they set down to it.

A gentleman who was relating of his adventures, said, He was once upon the highest mountain he believed in all the world It was so big, said he, that falling asleep, the moon going her journey, came so close by me, that she took my hat off my head. I pray said another, what did you do for your hat? Do! said he, I was fain to do with patience till next night, when she most civilly put it on again and told me, she only took it off to make a little water in it.

A soldier swore desperately, That being in the wars between the Russians and Pollanders, here happened to be a quarrel between two Generals, where a river parted them. At that time it froze so excessively, that all their words were no sooner out of their mouths but they were immediately frozen, and could not be heard until eleven days after, when the thaw came and dissolved them, and so made them audible to all.