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 but a stranger, who arrived an hour ago, has had them dressed into an omlet, and we have nothing.

—Alas! said the traveller, harrassed as I am, I want nothing but a bed—I have one as soft as is in Alsatia, said the host.

—The stranger, continued he, should have slept in it, for 'tis my best bed, but upon the score of his nose—He has got a defluxion, said the traveller—Not that I know, cried the host—But 'tis a campbed, and Jacinta, said he, looking towards the maid, imagined there was not room in it to turn his nose in—Why so? cried the traveller starting back—It is so long a nose, replied the host—The traveller fixed his eyes upon Jacinta, then upon the ground—kneeled upon his right