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 once. Truly, ir, could you but feel human neceities, you would acknowledge it to be a very hard matter for thoe to be honet who are in want of all things: when, for intance, you are pinched by hunger, and have not a maravedi in your pocket, it is an heroic pitch of virtue to forbear tealing a roll from the tock of bread which ome Crœus of a baker expoes at his window—for neceity, as the proverb ays, has no law.’

‘Get thee gone, vagabond!’ exclaimed the Gnome, when Curlypate had ended, ‘as far as feet can carry thee, and acend the gallows, the ummit of thy fortune!’ Upon this he dicharged his prioner with a luty kick.—The latter rejoiced at ecaping o eaily, and applauded his powers of peruaion, which, as he uppoed, had for this time extricated him from a very ticklih ituation. He made a forced march to get out of reach of the rigorous overeign of the mountain, and in his