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 After which he sprinkles him copiously with holy water, bestows on him a few benedictions, and lets him loose.

The unlucky wight saw clearly that he had been made a dupe—He went home, overwhelmed with shame and vexation at the loss of his fifteen-pence ; but then he had in lieu of them, got a prayer and benediction.