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 rewards and to return home, for, as he had vowed not to go back without the head, so he had kept his word.

“When Wolfgang reached the glen, where he expected to meet the boarwolf, he found Hendrick there with some companions, who had risen early that morning to try the powers of two large dogs, which they had precured from a great distance. These were blood-hounds of a fine breed, and were now engaged by Hendrick, because all the other dogs that had been employed in the chace of this monster refused to follow it, being so terrified, that, whenever they were put upon the scent, they howled and slunk away in fear. Wolfgang, elated with the kindness so lately shewn him by the beauty and her father, and relying on the promise that he should cut off the head of the boarwolf, could not refrain from uttering a loud laugh of contempt, when he saw the pains taken by his former friend and his associates. He even bid him, with a sneer, ‘go home and look out for a wife, for that he meant to marry the beauty that night himself.’ Hendrick was too intent on endeavouring to get scent of the wild beast, to reply to these insults, and having ascertained that it was not in the dell, he hurried over the