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 manner he might et on foot his trade again. Among other things, his wife’s goats came acros his imagination; but he loved them almot as well as her children, and by fair means he knew there was no poibility of inducing her to part with them: after mature deliberation, he therefore fixed upon the following piece of knavery—not to give any intimation of his misfortune at home, not even to return thither by day, but to teal about midnight into the houe, drive the goats to Smiedberg market, and lay out the money they would fetch in freh glas ware; and on his return to call his wife to a trict account, and feign vehement anger for her negligence, in uffering the cattle to be tolen while he was away.

With this well-concerted cheme, the unfortunate collector of fragments concealed himelf in a cope near the village, in longing expectation of the hour of midnight, that he might rob himelf. When it truck twelve he et out on his thief’s er- rand,