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 The old lady being thus happily recovered, the young ones having had their fill of admiration, their notrils being now atiated with the incene of flattery from the cented beaux, and their limbs tired of cotillions and minuets, mother and daughters returned with one conent to Brelaw. They did not fail to take the way of the Giant-mountains, as they had promied to their hopitable entertainer in Giantdale, from whom the Countes hoped for a atisfactory olution of the riddle that o puzzled her; how he became acquainted with the company at the waters that had afterwards behaved with uch coldnes; and how the whimical alibi, that had all the wildnes of a dream, was brought about. But nobody could direct them to my Lord Giantdale’s eat, nor was the name known to a oul on either ide the mountains.—So the lady was at length unwillingly convinced that the tranger who had recued and entertained her was no other than Num-. II.