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 lept with his fathers. He was conigned to the earth by his pupil, amid the loud lamentations of every devout oul on the mountains; thee good people grieved for the los of their heavenly interceor, and performed pilgrimages to his grave, which brought in good profit to the heir of the departed. The pious implicity of the mourners deired relics from the effects which had belonged to the holy man: the legatee did not fail to furnih them for terling cah; he cut in pieces an old hermit’s frock, and ditributed the fragments to all that ought holy trumpery. The briknes of the demand awakened the pirit of traffick in his mind: he peculated upon another article, which proved not les productive—he divided the white-thorn taff of his mater into mall plinters, which were to cure the tooth-ache, when ued for tooth-picks: and as he did not want for materials, he would have provided all Chritendom with his overeign tooth-picks, if cutomers