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 a fair and noble bride,—no les than the daughter of the Sultan of Egypt, with an immene dower. Fame, we well know, magnifies every thing. It was true that Friedbert, between the inheritance of Father Benno and his tooth-pick manufacture, had acquired o much wealth as enabled him to well his pomp from place to place, as he journeyed onward. He bought palfreys and hores of burthen, cloathed himelf and the fair Callita with great magnificence, and proceeded with as high a carriage as if he had been Lord Ambaador to his Mot Catholic Majety.

As oon as the train was een moving along on the Augpurg road, all the inhabitants aembled with great houting and clapping of hands; Friedbert’s iters and brothers-in-law, and the town-council in their robes, with the reverend bailiff at their head, went out to meet him, with colours flying: they moreover caued the drums to beat and the bells to ring for joy of their returning fellow citizen, as