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 tring of pater-noters and benedicites into the bargain, reeking all the time with a cold weat. And, as a peron afraid of thunder raies all the houe at midnight, while the rambling noie is yet afar off, without gathering the leat courage from ociety, o the faint-hearted coachman was impelled by the ame intinct to eek the conolation of ympathy at leat from his leeping mitres; o he leaned over, and tapped brikly at the window. The yawning Countes, out of humour at being diturbed from o comfortable a nap, harply demanded, ‘Who’s there? what is all that noie for?’—‘Your honour,’ replied John, with a trembling voice, ‘be o good as only jut to look out at the window; for, Lord have mercy upon us! there walks a man without an head cloe beide us!’—‘Blockhead as thou art,’ replied the Countes, of‘of [sic] what is thy vulgar imagination dreaming? And if that was the cae,’ continued he in a tone of raillery, ‘a man without an head is no rarity; there are Rh