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16                     never escape their fury, so they drew themselves up in a body, and made old Stump the tooth-drawer their cap- tain, and the old woman that brought the tidings his second: along they marched till they came to the well; then setting themselves in order to op- pose him when he should come out, none so vailant as old Stump, who went to the well, to beat him out of his harbour, where he found him sitting on the bucket, as the old woman had told, and drawing him out of the well, he was so amazed to see so many old men and women, insomuch that he                     strove to run for life; but they pur. sued, and so laid on, that they soon ended his days, and gave a great shout for joy they had killed the devil. Now let us return to Sheffery Morgan, where we left him, taking an account of his money he found in the thief's port- mantle, who beholding his great sum of money, resolved if he could to ad- vance his fortune, and get him a hand- some young woman for his wife, to the end he may reap a full enjoyment of his youth; so he took up his his lodgings at                     the sign of the Unicorn, where he had