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 till I get an hide in time, and then a good farm, and then poor Jane hall have a new gown.’

He had not got quite o far with his projects, as to purn the grand vizier’s daughter, like his predeceor Alnachar, when Number-Nip ent forth his roaring whirlwind, and overet the log with uch violence, that all the brittle contents of the baket were broken into a thouand fragments. This was a thunder-troke to poor Stephen, whoe ears were at the ame intant aluted by a loud hore-laugh at a ditance, if it was not fancy, or the echo of the crah of broken glas: he gueed it was ome fairy’s prank, for the violent gut of wind had the appearance of omething upernatural, and when he came to look carefully about him, log and branches had all diappeared; he had no difficulty in gueing who was the author of the michief. ‘Scoundrel Number-Nip!’ he cried, ‘thou envious and wicked prite! What have I done, that thou houldt ‘natch