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 faithful attendant to oberve whether any wans appeared on the pool, to watch their flight, and count their number. He eemed always to liten with great attention to his report. The viit of the wans made him chearful; but when none appeared, the old man hook his head and grew melancholy and peevih for everal days. The honet unupecting Swab gave himelf no further concern about this anxiety and ingular kind of curioity; or he thought, perhaps, that the arrival or failure of the wans afforded a preage of the fruitfulnes or unfruitfulnes of the year.

One day as Friedbert was keeping watch, he aw a number of wans kim along the pool and reported it as uual to father Benno, who tetified great joy upon the occaion, and ordered him to prepare a dainty upper, with plenty of wine. The glas oon exerted its inpiring powers on both the partners of the feat: the old man laid aide his reerve, be-