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 nation to take vengeance upon him for her ake, to play him ome trick that hould bring him to hame, and thereby make him o tame, that his wife might et her toe on his eye at pleaure. For this purpoe he addled the nimble eatern wind, mounted, and gallopped away over hill and dale, couring like a ranger on the cout all the high and cros roads leading to Bohemia: wherever he was aware of a traveller with a burden, he was at his heels in an intant, and examined his pack with the crupulounes of a tide-waiter. Luckily there paed along no tramper with glas wares, otherwie he would urely have been well trounced, without the mallet chance of retribution, even though he had not been the man Number-Nip was on the look-out for.

With meaures o well concerted the heavy-laden Stephen had no chance of ecaping. In the afternoon, a fine mucular fellow, with an huge pack upon his houlders came boldly triding along. As Rh