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 company them to the extremity of his domain, they took their leave, with a firm promie to pay their repects to him on their return.

No ooner had the Gnome arrived back at his catle, than he ummoned Mr. Curly-pate to an examination: that gentleman had been furnihed with lodgings in a ubterraneous dungeon, and he had pent the night in fearful expectation of the things that were to come to pas. ‘Vile micreant!’ aid the indignant prite, as he was brought in, ‘what hould hinder me from trampling thee to pieces in my anger, for attempting in my territories a piece of villainy, calculated to throw o much obloquy upon my name? Thy hide, be aured, hall pay for thy audacity.’—‘High and mighty regent of the Giant-mountains,’ anwered flyboots, very coolly, ‘however excluive may be your pretenions to this domain, and I by no means preume to quetion your title, tell me, I pray, where I may find ‘the