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 retorted the potilion apparition, in a voice of timid defiance. ‘Very well!’ replied the horeman, ‘let us ee, comrade, which way thy noe points.’ So aying he eized the reins, took the black figure by the middle, and dahed him againt the ground with uch force, that every bone in his body chattered; for the apparition had fleh and bone, as apparitions commonly have. The mak and drapery were preently tripped away, and out there came a well-proportioned curly-pated fellow, jut of the hape of an ordinary man. The knave finding himelf detected, and apprehenive of the weight of his adverary’s fit—for he doubted not but the horeman was Number-Nip himelf, whom he had ventured to peronate—urrendered at dicretion, and begged piteouly for his life: ‘My good Lord of the Mountain,’ aid he, ‘have compaion on a wretch who has been the huttle-cock of fortune all his days; who could never be what he would, but was always violently Rh