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 tune has in tore for thee the favour of urprizing a mitres of the fairy race by this pool; one that, when love has dometicated her, hall be willing to remain with thee. But if an earlier flame has taken poeion of thy heart, o that he cannot enjoy thy affections, let the butterfly ecape, ele hall the torments of joyles wedlock fall upon thee.’

The morning had already begun to peep over the ilent horizon, before the old man’s talkativenes had tacked this application to his own extraordinary tory. He then tretched himelf on his bed of dry leaves, in order to enjoy repoe after o long an interval; but a crowd of ideas floated in Friedbert’s brain, o party-coloured and entangled, that leep came not near his eye-lids. He eated himelf before the entrance of the hermitage, looked toward the riing un, and took every wallow that whizzed over his head for a wan.

After a few changes of the moon Benno