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 pedition; we repeated it everal times, without our mother’s knowledge, till I became the victim of my elder iters’ curioity. Ah, where does the malignant enchanter, who lurks in ecret to rob the bathing nymphs of their veil, conceal himelf? Do thou, holy man, exorcie the depiteful orcerer, that he may fall down headlong before my feet, out of the air, if he is an inhabitant of the upper regions; or, if he huns the light, let him acend at the olemn hour of midnight out of the gaping earth, and retore me my property and inheritance, which can neither render him ervice nor procure him pleaure.’

Friedbert was not a little rejoiced at the mitake of the charming Callita repecting the author of the theft, and did all he could to confirm her in it. He invented a tory of ome prince, who for his ins, as tradition ays, was damned to wander about the Swans-field, where he takes a malicious pleaure in annoying the winged