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privately went into the stable, and hid himself under the manger. In a little time after, the hostler came also into the stable, to feed Rumhold’s mare ; and no sooner had he put the oats and beans into the manger, and laid down his sieve, but he sweeps them all into a canvass bag fixt un- der one corner of the manger, and went his way. Rumbold comes from his private recess, and went into the kitchen again, when after dinner seeming to go away, and called for his reckoning, he asked the hostler, ‘ what corn he had given his mare? he replied, all that he had ordered him; nay, the gentlemen he dined with, saw him bring it through the kitchen. ’ Quoth Rumboid, don’t tell me a lie, for I shall ask my mare presently. Now this strange saying put all the strange gentlemen with him into admiration ; but above all then innkeeper, who asked at him if his mare could speak ? yes said Rumbold. It is (re- plyed the landlord, impossible. Not at all quoth Rumbold) for when I was at the University of Lyden in Holland. I studied magic, or the black art; and afterwards it being my misfortune to many a scoldings wife, I led w ith her such an uneasy life, that to be rid of her, I by my great skill in the said art transformed her into a mare. so fetch my mare hither, and you will se whither the hostler has done her justice