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 thrut out of the character he had tudied; and who, now his exitence is annihilated among men, cannot even figure as a ghot.’

This addres was a word in eaon. The pirit was as much enraged with his rival, as whilom king Philip with the fale Sebatian, or the Czar Boris with the monk Geiska, who acted the fale Demetrius. In imitation of the Hirchberg mode of adminitering jutice, he would have proceeded to intant execution, if his curioity had not been excited to learn the adventures of the mak. ‘Get up, comrade,’ he aid, ‘and do as thou art bid.’ He then, having firt drawn out his hore’s fourth leg from between his ribs, made up to the coach-door, and opened it, with an intention of aluting the company.

But the inide of the carriage was till as the grave; terror had o violently agitated the ladies’ nervous ytem, that the pirits had taken helter, one and all, from the external organs of ene, behind the countercarp